Guildford Gardens Daycare

💙⭐ Father’s Day Fun Continues! ⭐💙

Today, our little learners enjoyed the felt story Daddy Monster’s Special Stars before going on an exciting classroom star hunt! As they discovered each star, they shared something special about their dad, building confidence, language, and social skills. 🌟

The children then worked together to create a giant DADDY poster, exploring big and small letter D's through collaborative, hands-on learning. They also created beautiful "I Love Dad" Dot Art, carefully choosing their dad’s favourite colour to make their artwork extra meaningful. 🎨

To finish the day, we used playdough mats to build the letter D, strengthening fine motor skills, letter recognition, and early literacy through play-based STEAM learning.

What a wonderful day celebrating the special dads and father figures in our lives! 💙

Today during circle time, we enjoyed reading a Curious George story and the children had lots of fun engaging in pretend play with our Curious George soft toy.

For our Father’s Day theme, the children created special handprint artwork for their dads. It was a wonderful day filled with imagination, creativity, and love! 💙👣

🌊🐚 Our Ocean Adventure Continues! 🐚🌊

Today we explored seashells through play, discovery, and creativity! We enjoyed our Five Little Seashells felt story, investigated a large seashell using our senses, and shared what we noticed about its texture, shape, and smell. 🔍🐚

At the sensory table, children searched for seashells and sorted them by size, building early math and STEM skills. We also painted and decorated seashells with glitter, adding sparkle to our ocean creations. ✨🎨🐚 One of our favorite moments was pretending a large seashell was a telephone and chatting with friends! ☎️🐚

Learning comes alive through hands-on exploration, creativity, and play. 💙

🪼🌊 We continue our ocean adventure with another day of hands-on learning and discovery!

Our little explorers have been diving into ocean-themed STEM activities, creating underwater habitats on our felt ocean board and designing colorful jellyfish with cereal, large beads, and pipe cleaners. Along the way, they practiced counting, sorting, pattern-making, problem-solving, creativity, and fine motor skills.

Through play-based learning, children are building early math and science skills while exploring the wonders of the ocean one splash at a time! 💙✨

🌊🐠 Our little explorers had so much fun continuing our Under the Sea adventure today!

We enjoyed the felt story and finger play Five Little Ocean Friends, created adorable 🦀 crab handprint art, and explored our ocean-themed sensory and painting invitation. Through play, the children counted, imagined, discovered, and created while learning about their underwater animal friends.

Learning is always an adventure when curiosity leads the way! 💙🐙🎨

🌊🐙 Our Ocean Adventure Continues! 🐚

Today we explored the ocean through felt stories, sensory play, and creative art experiences. Children discovered sea creatures in our ocean sensory tray, using scoops, shells, and their imaginations to create their own underwater worlds.

We also practiced early math and fine motor skills by using bingo daubers to count and colour our octopus arms, strengthening number recognition and hand-eye coordination. Outside, we extended our learning with chalk art, drawing sea creatures and bringing our ocean theme to life on the playground!

✨ Learning Through Play:
🔹 Ocean exploration & storytelling
🔹 Counting & one-to-one correspondence
🔹 Fine motor development
🔹 Outdoor creative expression
🔹 STEM learning through discovery and observation

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🌊🐙 Ocean Adventure Continues! 🐙🌊

Today we dove into the ocean and learned all about our amazing octopus friends! We transformed our classroom into an underwater world, watched an octopus video, and discovered that octopuses have 8 arms, 3 hearts, 9 brains, no bones, and can release ink to hide from predators.

💃🐙 We also had fun moving and dancing like octopuses, stretching our arms, wiggling our tentacles, and exploring how these fascinating creatures move through the ocean.

🔢 Through our octopus balloon activity, we practiced number recognition and counting, strengthening early math skills through hands-on play.

🎨 We finished our adventure by creating colorful octopus artwork, encouraging creativity, fine motor development, and self-expression.

A wonderful day of ocean exploration, movement, creativity, and STEM learning! 💙

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🐢🌊 Under our Sea Animals theme, the children explored the fascinating life of turtles!

We learned about the turtle life cycle through an engaging felt story, worked together to create a large turtle hands-on activity that encouraged teamwork, and got creative with an art and craft activity by making turtles using board, cotton, and colors.

A wonderful day filled with learning, collaboration, and creativity! 💚

🌊🐟 Our Ocean Adventure Begins! 🐟🌊

We kicked off our Ocean & Under the Sea unit with the beloved story Swimmy, exploring the power of teamwork, friendship, and helping others.
Through hands-on, play-based learning, our little explorers practiced what they've learned about teamwork and helping each other while practicing letter recognition with a colorful Rainbow Fish painting activity, as well as developing their creativity, fine motor skills, and early STEM thinking.
Learning is always more meaningful when children can explore, create, and discover through play! 💙✨

🐞🪲 As we wrapped up our Insect & Bug Theme, our little explorers stayed busy learning through play! 📚✨ We enjoyed interactive story time with books and felt stories, bringing our tiny bug friends to life through imagination and conversation.

Our children strengthened their fine motor skills and colour recognition by sorting and matching different insects, while also practicing counting and early math skills. 🔴🟢🟡 During our nature exploration, the children became little scientists — searching carefully for bugs, observing their movements, and counting how many they could find in our environment. 🌿🔍🐞

For our creative art experience, we explored leaf stamping to create beautiful insect-inspired artwork, using natural materials to connect art and nature together. 🍃🎨 The children showed so much curiosity, focus, and excitement throughout the week!

Learning through play helps children build confidence, creativity, problem-solving, and a love for discovering the world around them. 💚