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Thank you to Shoprite Checkers for the super shopping experience this morning😍 We look forward to group 2's visit on Friday 👏👏👏

Monday-Funday

A chuckle for the week ahead :D :D

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An extremely busy morning was had in the mini-minors aircraft paint booth, as you can clearly see and yesterday, a whole fleet of sailboats were manufactured in the mini-minors boatyard 😍 Wow! The Little Minors had oh, SO much art time fun this week!

Weekend Chuckle :D :D

What a lot of fun (not to mention yummy) time with our Birthday Girl and Birthday Boy this morning 🥳🥳

Happy 5th birthday to Milani 👏👏👏👏👏and happy 5th birthday to Alu 👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you for the fantabulous celebrations, we

Wednesdays are Monkeynastix and Stimuzone days at mini-minors educare
What a lot of learning fun for those Little Minors who have enrolled 😍

Wednesday's Wise Words

Kindergarten literally means "children's garden."
A place where children are nurtured.
Where they grow through play, curiosity, movement, stories, relationships, and wonder.
But somewhere along the way...

We killed the garden and built a test factory.

Too many five-year-olds now spend more time being measured than being children, more time on benchmarks than on the skills that actually matter: self-regulation, resilience, curiosity, creativity, confidence, and a real love of learning.

You don’t help a flower grow by constantly measuring its height.

You create the right conditions and let it bloom.

What if we actually treated Kindergarten like a children’s garden again?

• Play as real learning
• Projects instead of packets
• Stories instead of screens
• Outdoor time every day, not as a reward but as a right
• Movement woven through the day, not squeezed out of it
• Learning how to sit with frustration instead of avoiding it
• Learning how to share, speak up, listen, and work things out

These aren’t “extras.”

They are the work.

Five-year-olds don’t need acceleration.

They need soil, sunlight, time—and adults who understand that growth can’t be rushed without breaking something important.

We don’t need better test factories.

We need to stop building them.

Jerry 🦒 Giraffe has missed you over this long weekend, Little Minors and asked me to please post his photo to let you know he says "hello" and can't wait to see you tomorrow!