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Good afternoon magenta families, And welcome to another week here in the Magenta Room.
We had a great start to our day with some morning activities and some experiences. We also had a morning music group with musical instruments where we practiced our fast and slow tempos and talked about the rhythm of our songs using the xylophone and drum.
For learning centre time we continued on with our season discussion and chatted about the trees that have been blooming and lots of flowers are appearing. We also made some telescopes to search for the flowers that have begun to grow in our garden.
For our learning centre activities we did some painting of a cherry blossom tree where we made our hand print for the trunk and used a recycling bottle to create the look of the petals in the tree.
Nishka: My tree has beautiful pink flowers that the little birds will pick to take home.
Olivia: My pink tree is my favourite.
Isla: This pink tree can hang in the garden for the birds to look at
Elaria: My tree is going to hang in the window so the birds can look at my lovely tree I have made with pink paint.
Alice: This is my cherry blossom tree for spring and the flowers are high in the tree for the animals to smell beautiful.
We have also been separating our little seeds, getting them ready to grow in some more seed pots. So far where have sorted sunflower seeds, daisy seeds, common grass seeds and a few others. We are so excited to begin our lovely garden spring growing experiment.
Some of our other activities today were cubby house where we have been using our imagination as a place to hide from the thunderstorm and windy weather, we had small puzzles and connectable blocks concentrating on our fine motor skills, car mat, home corner where our cafe is baking bread and coffee for all our hard working friends, quiet reading mat for relaxation and large construction blocks outside where we are building our very own city.
What a lovely start to the week and see you all tomorrow,

Good Afternoon our wonderful Magenta families. What a lovely Thursday we have had.
We started the day of with some yoga and took advantage of the cool morning air and practiced our yoga poses. Today the monkey, lion, crocodile and hippo were the most requested poses. We are getting so good at our yoga poses and our muscles are growing big and strong. Yoga is such a wonderful opportunity for physical strength and development but it is also a wonderful opportunity for small discussion groups that foster and build confidence within our spoken and listening language. It’s also great for turn taking as we listen to what our friends have to say and wait for our turn to share our wonderful information.
Some of our other activities today were play dough where we made some of our creatures from our story books. Construction sand pit, mermaid and under the sea ocean drawing, garden sensory rice activity, and large construction corner where we made a zoo filled with animals and flowers that are growing in the warm weather. Our farm house was also back today as the children have been requesting it lately, together the children helped their teaches to collect what we needed and set it up under the shade of our bottle brush tree.
Luca: I can bring the cow and the duckie he lives on the farm
Leo: the horse lives on the farm and the mummy horse can take care of the baby horse.
Thomas: My batman can help take care of the horses and give them some dinner
We also had a spring time parade where we showed off our spring dresses and clothes, and chatted about the colours we were all wearing.
Amelia: I am wearing my Rainbow dress today. The rainbow is the same in the sky rainbow.
Isla: My dress is yellow like the sunshine in the sky, but not on a cloudy day because clouds are white
Olivia: My dress has flowers on it like the flowers in the garden story book
Molly: my dress has a unicorn and he is very friendly
Alice: My dress is blue and I like my little flowers. They are all the places on my dress. It’s beautiful.
During group time we read our stories and sung our group time language songs, We are learning a new song called “ The seasons of the year” and we are getting so clover pronouncing the new words.
We also read the story the big hungry bear who goes looking for delicious strawberries that grow in the sunshine, We had small activities such as puzzles, colour matching and sorting in our group time groups.
What a busy day we have had, and we can’t wait to see you all again tomorrow.

Good Afternoon Magenta families and welcome to our Tuesday here in the Magenta room.
Today we started our day off with some morning tea of jam and vegemite crackers and chatted about our families and friends. We also had a drawing table with letter shapes where we were finding the starting letter of our name.
Emmeline: My letter is E, it sounds like Emmeline
Alannah: My letter is A for Alannah and Alligator and apple
Georgia: My letter is Georgia, I like my name
Alice: My name is Alice and that is A sound.
We also had some morning yoga outside in the morning sunshine and a little play in the cubby house.
For group time both Alice and Thomas brought in some books for us to read and we practiced our listening skills. We also chatted about how it is kind to listen to one another and show that we are excited about what our friends can tell us.
We also read the story “there’s a hippopotamus on our caravan roof eating cake”. This is a story about a family who go on holiday to the beach. We also used the story in our learning centre activities and made two little ocean worlds and put both mermaids and ocean animals such as whales and dolphins.. etc inside to swim in the waves.

Levi” Look out the whale is jumping in the waves, he is splashing everywhere….

Luis: Here comes the shark he is going to jump in the ocean and splash water everywhere

Some of our other activities today were car mat, balancing beam and obstacle course, cubby house, digger in the sand pit and home corner where we were taking care of the babies feeding them and taking them for little walks around our room.
What a fun day we have had, see you all again tomorrow.

Hi Magenta families, and welcome to Wednesday the middle of the week. Hope your week so far is going well.
Today we started our day off with some self select activities to add to the already set up room to encouraging ownership of our room and our toys .It’s wonderful to see how the children have been welcoming their friends as they arrive and asking ” would you like to play with me” We also had a morning tea of cheese toast and a selection of fresh fruit. Again the morning tea topic of discussion was fruit and where it grows in the garden.
We also had some morning yoga and continued on with our discussion about healthy bodies and minds. We chatted about how healthy it is to eat fresh fruits and vegetables but also to take time in the day for meditation and to sit quietly and listen to the sounds of nature and think about what makes us happy.
Thomas: my sammy makes me happy
Isaac: my family, mummy, daddy make me happy in my heart
Isla: playing with my daddy and mummy makes me happy every day, and playing with Tima too.
During group time we chatted about how we can take care of our room and how we play in our learning spaces in the appropriate way, Some of the ideas we came up with were…
Leo: running is for outside and walking is for inside
Isaac: Inside we use our tiny tiny quiet voices and outside we can talk loudly
Alannah: but not shouting, because that’s not friendly to shout loudly at people or teaches
Elise: and no running so you don’t crash into toys
Isla: when you finish playing you pack it away,
Amelia: and you can ask a teacher to help you pack away
What wonderful ideas we are coming up with. Allowing children to help set age appropriate learning space boundaries and expectations helps them connect within their learning and use this as a tool to encourage self regulating behavior.
Some of our other activities today were home corner where we made some delicious lunch for us all to eat, lego we counted out the number of blocks and colours in the towers we were building, reading area where we chatted about our favorite stories, drawing table, playdough, outdoor games.
What a wonderful day,