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September Stories
September brought in many changes to the centre.
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We welcomed a few new friends and their families throughout the month. Our program made many adjustments to help them to feel at home with us.
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In September, some of the children's' interests were observed by their teachers. As usual, our play-based curriculum provided many engaging, inspiring and creative activities based on these interests.
A variety of materials were used such as water, coloured water, bubble water, shaving cream, paints in different colours, bubble play and playdough play.
Sensory Play
Here are the interests(themes) we observed in September:
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Bugs
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People
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Animals
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Building 3D Structures,
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Colours and Letters.
Building 3D structures with connectors, gears and various kinds of blocks such as Legos, hollow blocks, unit blocks, soft oversized colour blocks, paper bricks, etc.
Construction
Play
Through circle time singalongs, yoga on the carpets, dancing with scarves, ribbons and instruments, marching with friends to music, parachute play, listening to music and nursery rhymes through YouTube and books ​
Music & Movement
Play
Many different techniques and skills were employed such as pasting with sticks, brushes/ dying with eye droppers/cutting with scissors/tracing, scribbling or colouring with crayons/chalks/pencils/painting with fingers, brushes, car wheels and rollers/stamping with toys, sponges, stamps and objects with unique shapes
Crafts
Exploring different kinds of bugs in the playground, comparing different body shapes, naming body parts, examining different movements of bugs, various the habitats of different bugs etc.
Science &
Inquiry play
Language & Literacy
Recognizing letters, doing alphabet puzzles, story-time, oral story-making, tracing letters, listening to nursery rhymes and group singalong time with names
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Sensory Play
Exploring ants: where are they going? | what happens when ants go in the water? | What is this bug? |
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Bug scavenger hunt | Squish bugs(toy) with rocks | Examining the movements of bugs |
Examining bug's body parts: antennas, legs, head etc. | ||
Spider painting on a wall | Singing Itsy Bitsy Spider while painting | Describe your image |
Describe your image | Sensory Play: Bugs with stones in shaving cream | Sensory Play: Bugs in shaving cream |
Describe your image | ||
Look at my spider! | How many legs does a spider have? | |
Craft: Making a spider suing paper plates and pipe cleaners | ||
Examining different kinds of bugs | Sensory Play with soapy water: Bug bath | |
Music and Movement: dancing with ribbons to music...High/low, In/Out, Fast/Slow...etc. | ||
Music $ Movement: "Parachute Play"-Who is in the middle?....walking right/left, Fast/Slow, Stop & Freeze | Music $ Movement: "Parachute Play" - Who's under?...Up/Down, Under/Above, Out/In, etc. | Circle Time: Singalong together |
Circle Time: "Ring around the roses" | Circle Time: Then we all fall down! | |
Music $ Movement: Yoga - making Tree pose | Music $ Movement: Yoga - making Snake pose | Tracing my body on the ground with chalks |
Craft: Making my face-what shape is my face/eyes/nose? | Craft: making face-how long is my hair?...Long/Short/Medium | Craft: making my face-how many eyes/nose/ears/mouth do I have?.....counting numbers under 5 |
Math: making a patterns with loose parts | Construction Play: making a tower with coloured blocks | |
People on the bus go Up & Down! | My tower is high and your car is long. | |
Building a car with gears | ||
Cutting with scissors: Fine motor skills | Recognizing numbers and letters in catalogues | Letter recognition |
Tracing letters | Pasting with colourful pom poms | |
Sensory play: mixing paint colours in a squish bag " How the colour is changing?" | ||
Mixing primary colours: What happened when Red and Yellow got mixed up? We got Orange! | ||
Finger painting: exploring Red colour | Spray water painting in Red | |
Experment: Can you change colour by adding more water? |