The Purple Penguin Creche

This week the cabin ECCE class we are all about getting healthy.
At circle time we discussed sports we love, healthy and unhealthy food and even one of the days Ana brought her saddle and bridle in to show us and taught us the importance of keeping the tack clean and how to put it away safely.
We also painted an amazing trophy and coloured our very own medals. We also baked some amazing fairy cakes that were very delicious 😋.
On Friday we had sports day the children had so much fun running around. 🐎😀⚽️

This week in the Toddler room we continued our theme of fruit and veg. 🥦🥕The children were very curious about the different vegetables. This week the toddlers had so much fun in kitchen play. They loved making imaginary foods and drinks with their friends, getting to know the different types of vegetables. One vegetable they loved saying was broccoli 🥦 They learned the different colours of vegetables. To finish the week of we did some Sandplay with stencils and playdough of vegetables. We also enjoyed doing some colouring of the different vegetables. The toddlers had a very busy week😀😀

This week in Paula and Monica’s Room, we’ve continued learning so much about different countries around the world. Our passports are now complete after travelling all around the globe! 🌍✈️

This week the children enjoyed tasting traditional Spanish salmorejo while dressing up for the Feria de Seville, created their own masks for the Brazilian Carnival, made beautiful Dutch flower crowns, designed lovely Portuguese tiles, explored a Chinese cooking tuff tray with pasta, and so much more.

It has truly been such a fantastic week full of fun, creativity, and learning! ❤️

Many of the children in ECCE are going on holiday over the next few weeks, so this is the theme of the week in the cabin. They have made their own passports and a huge aeroplane. We have talked about our own holidays and shown each other photos with our families. We have also done lots of role-play, pretending to check in at the airport, packing our luggage (we had a checklist) and flying on a plane.

This week the toddlers had so much fun learning all about the different types of fruit, colours of fruit etc. The children were showing great interest in playing in the kitchen asking each other “what fruit would you like”. We dipped some lemon , limes and oranges into paint and made some fantastic art 🍋🍊
We read some fun book on fruits and done some colouring 🖍️🌈
We got to go outside in the garden as the weather was so warm , the toddlers love playing on the caterpillar in the sunshine ☀️ To finish off this very hot week we done some water play sand play 🏖️

This week in the cabin, the Afterschoolers have got everything ready for their “holiday”! They’ve made their own passports and boarding passes. They’ve played role-play games, pretending to be pilots, flight attendants and passengers. They’ve also filled in checklists with everything they need for the trip.

Last week in Paula and Monica’s class we decided to travel around the world. We started by packing our suitcase and preparing our passport, which we have been filling with stamps from the countries we have “visited” through this week’s activities.
During these days we built pyramids in the sand table, like the ones in Egypt; made a collage of Big Ben; painted the silhouettes of Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty using sponges; used playdough and straws to recreate the Atomium from Belgium; played ice hockey with our fingers, a very famous sport in Canada; and made a pizza to finish the week, almost as delicious as the ones they make in Italy.
Our passport is getting full of stamps!

Last week in the toddler room we learned all about transport & travel , 🚘🚚✈️The children showed great interest in playing with the trains , cars and were full of curiosity about planes in the sky outside. We done lots of cotton wool painting aeroplanes, playdough using planes, train, car stencils. To finish off the week we had so much fun with our transport tuff tray😊

This week the Afterschoolers decided to explore the world of Harry Potter. We had a great time making Harry Potter glasses, shields and origami owls. Thankfully nobody put a spell on us!

This week our theme in the ECCE cabin room were the continents. We first learnt that we live in planet Earth, and Earth is made of land and water, and that land is divided into 7 continents. We had great fun with the giant continent map María made and we also learnt a song so we can remember all the continents