School Holidays

A lot of our children are spending time at home this week and it has been nice just to chill and relax with the small group of children that are here.

We have been painting our toes...

Playing Jack in the Box!

Jack in the Box, Jack in the Box quiet and still, will you come out, will you come out...

YES I WILL!!!

We had important discussions about what we are going to buy when we go shopping...

Building together...

And learning about our body parts!

Amanda and Elizabeth

BIG BIG BUBBLES

In the garden this morning there were BIG bubbles!!!

It was fun to try and catch them.

Amanda tried to make really looooong bubbles.

It was exciting for all who were watching the big and long bubbles.

Jumping Jellybeans

26 September 2011

What a fantastic and busy morning we had today. The children were excited and ready to play as soon as they arrived. Luckily the sun was out and so was a fantastic climbing course set up in our garden. The children were immediately attracted to this and began climbing up, over and onto the many parts of the course.

Callan decide to lead the children to try taking a bit of a risk and jumping off the end of the blue beam. Noah and James followed suit and too jumped off the beam onto our mat. Soon we had most of the children all taking risks and jumping too. It was neat to see the children all involved and working well alongside each other sharing the equipment. They waited patiently and took turns allowing each other the time and space to jump when they felt ready. Lilly was especially happy to climb today. She has been challenging and building up her confidence while balancing on the blue beam. Today she even attempted to jump off the beam with a helping hand from the teachers. Well done Lilly! We will have to get out the blue beam again tomorrow and continue to practice our climbing and jumping skills.

The Wheelbarrow Challenge!

Keeping up with the RWC!!!

We are keeping up to date with the Rugby World Cup here at Village Kids and are even brushing up on our geography!
Here are some of our displays that we add to regularly as the All Blacks progress through the tournament.

Our Patriotic Window

The Current Events Window

Our Little All Black

The first of many awesome moments!!!

What a game!!!

Spring Screen Prints!

Fun in the sun!

Today we played outside and had a great time!!!
One activity that captured the attention of the children was making volcanoes in the sandpit. Vanessa sat in the sandpit with the children and made green volcanoes!


The children thought it was cool when the 'lava' flowed out of the volcano! Lots of ohhhs and ahhhhs! They enjoyed exploring with their fingers learning about temperature, wet or dry and liquid or solid.

We could also smell the vinegar (one the prime ingredients for a volcano) which some of the children screwed their noses up at...

Natural Collage

This afternoon, while it was nice and quiet, we did some natural collage on the deck.
First we walked around the garden and found some leaves, petals, seed pods and flowers for our collage. Then we put some glue on our paper and chose which petal we wanted to put on the paper. Some of the things wouldn't stick on the paper very well so we had to put heaps of glue on the paper and the leaves!
Our collages looked so cool, we can't wait to share them with everyone!

3+ is easy!

Today we sat and threaded with our new threading fruits. On the box it said for ages 3+ but that didn't seem to matter as our children used their fine motor skills and developing co-ordination skills to thread the worms through the holes.
I was so impressed with the concentration that our children used as they worked hard to thread and how proud they were of themselves when they succeeded!
Well done Little Moreporks!!! Age doesn't matter ;)

What we did today? 18/08/2011

Monday Morning 15.08.2011

Addison's 1st Birthday

We love the animal song!!!

This is one of our favourite songs at the moment!!! Look at our children watching and learning as the song shows the children what each animal sounds like.

Mandarin Candles

After our 'festering foam' yesterday, I thought it would be cool to do some more science experiments!
I searched the fruit bowl for a mandarin and found one that I thought would work.

I cut the mandarin in half and we scooped the fruit out. While having a nibble on the fruit, I filled the skins with some oil.

We waited a little bit for the oil to soak up the pith and then we lit it. It took a couple of goes before our candles lit but when they did, they burnt for ages!

So we did the other half. We nibble on the fruit while the oil soaked the pith and then we lit it. This candle worked better because the pith was longer than the first pith.


The children were very good at using there eyes to watch the candles.
What a fun way to introduce science concepts to the children, and we got to have a nibble to!

Fresh Rolls and Rainbow butter!!!

Monday Morning

This morning started off freezing cold with a very icy frost. Once the sun came out the children decided to go out to play having lots to do as the day warmed up. In the sandpit were children busy digging. We filled up buckets and made castles; testing out some basic maths concepts like volume and weight. There were also baking tins which gave the children the idea to cook some delicious cakes and bake them in our oven. I saw some really neat dramatic play as they added ingredients and stirred their pans of sand.
On the grass we had some neat climbing challenges set up. The favourite climbing equipment of the morning was the little yellow bridge. It is rather tricky and involves a lot of thinking and practice to climb over it. The children were very kind and caring helping each other walk across the bridge by holding hands for support. The little yellow bridge provides the children with an opportunity to practice and test their bodies abilities and learn to become confident in their bodies movements.
Hopefully tomorrow will bring another sunny day so we can play outside in the sun and practice our climbing skills.

What can we do today?

Let's fly!

After lunch we had a small group of children up.
As we filled in notebooks, Callan and Logan had their pens and paper and they were 'writing' to!
This evolved into something else - making paper planes!
Callan loved to try and fly them and Lilly joined in the fun!
We tried lots of different designs and some flew better than others. And sometimes it depended on how fast or hard they were thrown.







The children are learning about the properties of paper and how when it is folded different ways it has different effects on the way the paper planes fly.
What a fun way to introduce scientific concepts such as physics to the children.