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Our Living Eggs have finally arrived!
Our Preschool Children are super excited and can’t wait for the eggs to hatch!
We have been told that the eggs will start hatching from Thursday onwards and our children will be able to start touching them from Monday 28th March 2022. We will of course keep you updated and share lots of pictures using the ParentZone app!
Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️
Our eggs will be arriving on Monday 21st March 2022 and the chicks will be collected on Friday 1st April 2022.
We will for sure share lots of pictures on our ParentZone app, for you to look at 🙂🐣🐥
Remembrance Day, on November 11th, marks the anniversary of when World War One ended. It ended on November 11th 1918 at 11 am, which is why many people hold a two-minute silence at 11 am on this day.
Baby Room -
Our babies created their own poppies using tissue paper and glue. They also used paint to create different marks to represent poppies.
Preschool Room -
Pre school children celebrated Remembrance Day today. They decorated some poppies out of some egg boxes using red paint and black for the middle.
They watched a short video about the meaning of the day, where a rabbit was happily playing when suddenly the sky turned into a very dark colour, the rabbit was very scared of the loud bang he could hear and the birds couldn't fly in the sky anymore.
Children realised that the rabbit was very sad as he was hiding under an helmet with a snail.
Then a light came up in the sky and lots of poppies appeared in the field making everything colourful and bright again!
Children understood that the poppies were the soldiers that we lost in the war and we remember them on this day. After the video, the children sat down on the carpet quietly and made an heart with the poppies they decorated.
Pre school children have been talking about Black History Month during October and they learnt about how some people changed the world in a very successful and positive way.
Children started to look at Garret Morgan's invention that they like to use to guide and regulate the bike 'traffic' in the garden and it's very useful especially for the cars in busy street. We are talking about the traffic light, of course!
Children enjoyed to cut their own red, green and yellow circles and then, looking at a real picture of a traffic light, they recreate their own interpretation of it by sticking the circles in the different positions.
Then, they learnt about the story of Rosa Parks and how important was for her to stand up against injustice. We talked with children about differences and similarities we can have in common with other friends and we put the focus on respect and equality.
So, having available different resources to make their own self portrait, children were really engaged in looking at the mirrors and try to make their own faces looking at their skin tone, eye colours and hair style. They also looked at each others to underline how unique we all are!
Afterwards, they placed their self portrait on a 'bus' choosing their seats but respecting the choices of the others as well.
Finally, children heard the story of Granville Woods, the inventor of the telegraphone, a very old ancestor of the phone, very important to transmit messages.
Children used paper cups and strings to make their own telegraph and they tested it straight away!
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Happy Halloween 🎃
Our Gratitude Pumpkin!
At Cybertots GWQ we have taken the time to reflect on what we are grateful for in our lives and have written them on our pumpkin to share with each other!
Our lives are extremely busy and sometimes in the chaos we can forget about the things that mean the most to us and this was a fabulous exercise for not only remembering and reflecting on those things but also for valuing them together.
Preschool children carried out a very interesting experiment about sinking or floating!
Practitioner placed a bowl with water in the middle and she had different objects ready such as a coin, a stick, cotton wool, pencil, crayon and rubber band. Children had a checklist to complete while they made predictions and checked if the object would sink or float.
Children were very engaged in the experiment, being able to tick the list accurately, while having conversations with each other about the possibility of the objects to go under the water or to stay afloat!
This was a great opportunity for all the children to work on extending their vocabulary as they reflect on new words such as sink, float and prepositions such as under, below and on top; they could practice their ability to make predictions and testing their ideas by observing the outcome of the experiment; finally they could work on their attention span in the attempt to stretch it for a bit longer!
Our Preschool Room Team have made a fun and exciting area for our children to spend time reading books.
Children enjoyed their first experience in the reading a book boat. They selected a book and had flashlights to make it more interesting.
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read. There are only children who have not found the right book."
Practitioner set up an activity where the children needed to make their own garden and caterpillars using the materials that were set out for them. We had different leaves, herbs and paint to use.
The toddlers seem to have really enjoyed making their own garden and talking about the different herbs and resources they were using and also the different aromas they could smell from the herbs. Their art is now drying, ready for them to bring home, we hope you like all their hard work.
Preschool children set the butterflies free on Thursday!
According to the children, the butterfly had wings strong enough to fly free, to go and look for flowers and to meet other beautiful butterflies!
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