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📚✨ Author Spotlight of the Month ✨📚

This month, we're featuring Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell, a fun and informative book that introduces children to healthy eating and the important role food plays in helping our bodies grow strong.

Filled with colourful illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, this book encourages children to learn about different food groups, make healthy choices, and develop a positive relationship with food from an early age. 🍎🥦

Reading books like Good Enough to Eat helps spark curiosity, build healthy habits, and support a lifelong love of learning—values that align beautifully with the Montessori approach. 💛

Have you and your child read this book together? Let us know your favourite part in the comments! 📖✨

Did you know?

Inviting children into the kitchen does more than build memories—it builds healthy habits.

Harvard’s Nutrition Source highlights that children who participate in meal prep—washing fruits, chopping vegetables, helping with ingredients—are more likely to engage with healthy foods and feel empowered by their role.

At AVMS, we encourage children to help serve, prepare and clean up because we know these simple moments foster responsibility, curiosity and lifelong wellness.

Check out the full article here: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-food-environment/?.com

The clay pot painting activity brought out so much imagination. The children experimented with brushes, finger painting, and colour mixing as they decorated their own pots with pride. Thank you, Croc A Doodle, for visiting our summer camp.

🍎👩‍🍳 August’s Family Challenge is here! 👨‍🍳🥕

Invite your child into the kitchen and have them help prepare a snack or meal together! Whether they’re washing fruits and vegetables, stirring ingredients, spreading toppings, or setting the table, every task is an opportunity to learn and grow. 💛

Cooking together encourages independence, fine motor development, practical life skills, confidence, and responsibility—all while creating meaningful family memories. Plus, children are often more excited to try foods they’ve helped prepare! 🥣✨

We’d love to see your little chef in action! DM us a photo of your child helping in the kitchen for a chance to be featured on our account. Happy cooking! 📸🍓

Our trip to the WindReach farm. Our farm visit offered beautiful real‑world learning experiences. The children observed, touched, and explored the natural environment, building curiosity and independence through hands‑on discovery.

The children are happily enjoying the vegetables they helped grow, discovering the joy of caring for plants and seeing their efforts turn into healthy, delicious food.

This week, the children listened to a traditional song accompanied by the harmonium. This highlighted the richness of our cultural community.

What a lively week in our Music & Dance theme. The children loved experimenting with musical instruments and learning fun new dance moves from our community families. Not forgetting to make their creative instruments

It’s time for our July Parent Question! ☀️🎨

What’s the most creative thing your child has made or imagined recently? 🌟🖍️

Comment below and share! Whether it’s an imaginative story, a unique piece of artwork, an inventive building creation, or a make-believe adventure, we’d love to hear about the wonderful ways your child expresses their creativity. 💛

Children's imaginations are full of endless possibilities, and we love celebrating the ideas, creations, and discoveries that make each child unique.