RED & OTHER COLOURS

February 12, 2016 Samactivity, art, play, play provocations, playschoolLeave a comment

This week we’ve been getting excited about red…and other colours! Suiting our valentine moods the children have had fun discussing and playing around with colour…

Of course we had to make a rainbow… Endless fun and possibilities…

Some lighting ambience and a little magic…

Lots of different colour free art & activities…

Sensory tubs…

Water play with red water babies…

Experimenting with puffy red cloud dust…The pictures speak for themselves – we had to do this many times over!

And lots of valentine art for mom and dad!

BUSY DAYS

February 5, 2016 Samactivity, art, playschoolLeave a comment

It’s been a busy week at school – we’ve been discussing our families and making plenty of special gifts to take home to everyone… Our school frames are filled with familiar faces busy at play and our family wall filled with our loved ones…

Fun using up our old play dough…

Plenty of time for a quiet picnic, spraying, baking, pouring and mixing…

Our special letters ready to be posted…

Plenty of art…

Painting ice blocks to cool down…

…and painting the school together!

GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

January 30, 2016January 30, 2016 Samactivity, play, playschoolLeave a comment

As we are still early into the year our priorities have been getting to know each other and our new environment… Our aims have been to inspire the children to investigate, experiment and engage…There have been plenty of questions and answers as the children have started their journey of self discovery this year through play…

Our theme has been “our home”. As many of the children are new I’ve let them lead the discussion as we’ve gotten to know each other – chatting at the outdoor kitchen, building and creating together and just taking a look around getting comfortable with their space…The most exciting part of our week was to construct the 3 little pigs houses together. The children played with this the whole week and I often found them “building a house of bricks” (blocks outside)…There has been a lot of dramatic play, teacher led singing and ~~creative singing~~ “open mic”!

This week we have explored scissors & cutting, chalks, painting with tempura & acrylic, glueing and water colours.

BACK TO SCHOOL

January 15, 2016 Samdry creek bed, loose parts, play, playschool, treasure basketLeave a comment

After a long holiday we are slowly getting back into the new term! The past 2 days have all been about getting to know each other, keeping cool and having fun… The children have spent time getting accustomed to their new school environment, teachers and new friends…

Most of the time has been spent in the cool garden enjoying water play and getting to know each other…

garden play

garden play water play

garden play water sprays

The children have had a great time chatting around the creek bed, filling it with water and watching it flow down the river…

creek bed fun

Lots of loose parts to explore!

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Treasure boxes and baskets to discover…

treasure basket

treasure box

treasure box discovery

Free art and clay activities…

Free clay

Painting

And our picture and family wall ready to fill…

picture wall

my family wall

I’m feeling very excited for a great year filled with plenty of play!

CHRISTMAS

December 15, 2015 Samchristmas art, end of yearLeave a comment

We had so much fun on our last morning at school…A huge party for our special children, presents and wonderful bags filled with special art to take home!

END OF YEAR!

December 7, 2015December 7, 2015 Samchristmas art, end of year, end of year gifts, handmade, playschool2 Comments

Wow…I can’t believe tomorrow is our last day of the year…This last term has flown by so fast…

The past weeks have been so busy with concerts and parties – the excitement levels at school have been interesting to observe! So tomorrow a bittersweet day… Saying goodbye to some of our little ones and see you next year to others…

Some gifts I’ve made the children for tomorrow…

Each child has a stationery bag with pockets to carry around all their creative holiday essentials! (chalk board and chalk, book, glue, scissors, pens and pencil, sharpener and eraser, crayons, pencil crayons & stickers).

A special ice cream bowl with matching spoon filled with treats!

And of course all their beautiful art they have been working on the last weeks! I’m really going to miss these little ones…

DINOSAURS 02

September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 Samactivities, art, dinosaur theme, play provocations, playschool, small worldLeave a comment

It’s that time of the year again – all our paleontologists are in full swing! We spent the week exploring plenty of small world play, digging for fossils, baking, volcano experiments and plenty of fun art…

Interest corner with plenty of books…

A dinosaur cave…

Digging for fossils…

Fun dinosaur baking…

A volcano experiment…

And plenty of fun messy art!

SAFARI

August 28, 2015August 28, 2015 Samactivities, art, play provocations, playschool, safari themeLeave a comment

We’ve had fun on Safari this week! The children have had a great time learning about different animals, their food, sounds and families!

Enjoying the Safari play provocations and activities…

And of course lots of fun messy art!

SPACE!

August 21, 2015 Samactivities, art, felt board, handmade resources, spaceLeave a comment

Our school is filled with budding astronauts! The children’s interest and enthusiasm for space always amazes me! No lack of song and movement for this week and many trips to space! The real hits this week were gloopy sparkly space dough and our rocket building activity.

Amongst other activities around the class were astronaut emergent reading boards and felt board.

And of course plenty of fun art!

FARM PLAY PROVOCATION

August 6, 2015August 6, 2015 Samart, farm theme, handmade wooden toys, loose parts, play provocations, wooden fencesLeave a comment

We’ve been having fun on the farm this week! Apart from all the animals the children loved learning about windmills, tractors and where our food comes from!