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Good Afternoon our wonderful Magenta families.

Today we have had a full day of experiences. This morning we started our day off with  a little discussion group about how today is the day that Santa will be arriving in our Magenta room. We then read the story “Santa is coming to town” and we talked about how we all need to use our kind manners for Santa when he arrives.

So after a little morning tea and a play in the garden it was time…… the children stopped in their tracks as they heard the Christmas bell” coming down the path way and their little voices calling out ….. “Santa is here” “Sant is here”. Like a flash they flew to the mat and sat awaiting Santa’s arrival.

Ëlaria: Santa is ringing the Christmas bell, I can here it

Thomas: Santa is coming everyone , look Santa.

One by one we sat with Santa and told him what we would like for Christmas and how happy we are that he came for a visit”

After we spent some time with Santa we then practiced our wrapping skills wrapping up some Christmas gifts we are taking home and can hang on our Christmas tree. We made some Christmas ornaments in our science class a few weeks ago and it was so much fun. After lunch we also tried our  Chocolate  ice cream we made in science and it was so delicious.

For the afternoon we are going to be playing lots of Christmas games as well and pin the Santa hat on Santa and get ready for tomorrows festive activates.

See you all tomorrow and hope you have a lovely evening.

 

 

 

 

Happy Monday Magenta Families and hope this week leading up to your Christmas break is a good one. We are looking forward to spending so  much time this week playing Christmas games and celebrating the upcoming holiday.

This morning we spent some time in Crimson as well as inside in the air conditioning hiding away from the heat.

Our Crimson visits are coming along nicely and we are having such a wonderful time exploring our way through our activities and experiences.  The children are all confidently exploring their learning spaces and moving around the room with ease.  Today we had gift box wrapping extending our fine motor skills, we had ginger bread playdough that smelt like cookies to practice our fine motor manipulations of pulling, pushing and scrunching the play dough getting our fingers working. Doll house, kitchen cooking, rocket ships, large sandpit play, garden obstacle course and climbing house.

We also had a little group time and talked about how the crimson room works and how we are all such wonderful learners and how exciting Crimson is going to be next year.

once the heat left the day we ventured our for some outside building and a little garden play in the cool afternoon air,

What a lovely day we have had and see you all tomorrow for another hot Tuesday,

and just a little reminder to bring you hats as the weather has been forecast to be a hot one for the next few days.

Good afternoon Magenta families and welcome to this hot Tuesday.

Today to start off the day we chatted about how the sun is great for our planet to make the plants grow big and strong but we need to protect our skin from the sun rays and that’s why we put on sunscreen multiple times a day and always wear our hat outside. We also did some morning sun yoga with poses such as the drifting clouds, stretching sun rays and ball of sun. Its so great to add variety to our morning yoga routine and keep pour bodies strong and healthy.

For group time today we continued on with the children’s interest in Christmas and drawing our picture letters to Santa to tell him about the wonderful activities we like to do at Day care and who is in our family.

We also read the story ….. and chatted about what the word Christmas means to us.

Alannah: I think of reindeer and a Christmas tree.

Charlie: I think of Santa and his reindeer in the sky

Henry: Ad I think if lots of presents under the Christmas tree from Santa when you are fast asleep

Georgia: And Santa can fly on the roof and come down the chimney

Levi: and Santa has bells on his sleigh to make the Christmas jingle bells song

Some of our other activities today were home corner Santa shop where we are making so many wonderful toys to share with our friends. Christmas collage, playdough, Large group painting outdoors in the garden, mini sand pit and ;large building blocks where we built Santa’s sleigh.

What a great day and see you all tomorrow.

Happy Friday Magenta families and hope you have all enjoyed your week of wild Sydney weather.

We had a lovely week this week decorating our learning spaces for the festive season and we are so proud of all our artwork we are displaying around the room.

To start today off we did some morning Christmas yoga and practiced our Christmas poses such as the wobbly Christmas tree, the Christmas pudding, Balancing reindeer and the sparkly Christmas star.

For group time we read the story Christmas night and talked about how Santa visits when we are sleeping and how we can get ready for bed on Christmas eve.

For learning center time we continued on with our Christmas concert recording so feel free to dress you child up in festive attire for video.

Some of our other activities today were home corner we have turned into Santa’s workshop as well as baking Christmas cookies for all the girls and boys around the world, magnetic blocks building Santa’s sleigh, and a mini Santa exploration world.

Don’t forget your sun hats for next week as its forecast for sunshine on Monday and have a great weekend.

Hi magenta families and welcome to Wednesday

Today we had a great start to our day setting up our room and welcoming our friends as they arrive. It’s so wonderful to see all the wonderful friendships the children have made and as they welcome everyone with such sweet smiles on their faces.

Today Justin and Shane arrived with their science activities and today we made delicious chocolate ice cream. We watched as they showed us the ingredients and then we helped add them to the mixing bowl and watched as the machine stirred up all the ingredients. We chatted about how a liquid can change to a solid when it cools down and freezes and we also talked about how we will be putting this ice cream into the freezer to freeze over night.

We also chopped up some chocolate to add in some crunch with Tima helping us.

Some of our other activities today were Christmas tree making, sand activities, a venture over to Crimson for transition, home corner, outdoor garden group games to promote turn taking and Christmas concert dancing and singing.

What a great day we have had, hope you all get home safely from the storm that is predicted for this evening and see you all tomorrow.