Maple House Pre-school

E V E R Y S O U N D M A T T E R S 👂🏻
Sensory focus: Hearing
Listen closely, every sound tells a story!
Listening is a superpower.
What sounds did we hear today?

NATURE SOUNDS 🐦🌧
- Birds chirping (The African Hoopoe and the Cape Wagtail)
- Soft waves of the ocean
- Rain falling

TRANSPORT SOUNDS 🚜 🚒
- A tractor on the farm
- An aeroplane
- The firetruck is underway (For real!)

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 🎻 🥁🪘
- African drums
- A lovely violin
- The guitar
- Who's playing the piano?
- Me playing the drums

ANIMAL SOUNDS 🐮 🐈
- The loud rooster
- My kitten meowing
- A funny cow
- A happy duck

SOOTHING SOUNDS 🔔🤸🏻‍♀️
- A little bell ringing
- Church bells ringing
- Children laughing

S I E N I S G L O ... 🎠 👑
Sensoriese fokus: Sig

The Toy Store
Pret-À-Play ZA

Wat het ons vandag raakgesien?
- Pragtige kleure
- Boeke
- 'n Kaleidoskoop
- Poppe
- Papier en tekengoed
- Die blou lug en wit wolke
- Maats met oulike brille
- Ons skool se tuin

T A S T Y B I T E S 🍓🍇🥭
Sensory focus: Taste

Our picnic style feast featured an assortment of sweet, salty, bitter and sour.

- Pretzels
- Dried mango
- Strawberries
- Dates
- Lindt Milk chocolate
- Grapes
- Pomegranate pips
- Biltong
- Blueberries
- Tomatoes
- Naartjies
- Basil
- Pomelo

M Y O U L I K E N E U S I E 👃🏻🍊🍃
Sensoriese fokus: Reuk

Die volgende natuurlike, aromatiese verrassings was deel van ons dag:

- Roosmaryn
- Suurlemoen Pelargonium
- Kruisement
- Laventel en Oreganum
- Suurlemoen verbena
- Kaneel, ster anys en naeltjies
- Koffiebone en vanielje
- Sitrus: Pomelo, nartjie en suurlemoen
- Babaseep en komkommer handseep
- Blomme: Jasmyn, violet en narsing

W I L D A B O U T N A T U R E 🪸 🐚
🖐🏻 Sensory Focus: Touch 🖐🏽

Our Nature Sensory table is filled with beautiful treasures, inviting little ones to explore, discover and expand their vocabulary with descriptive words:

- Soft moss
- Textured wood
- Smooth sand
- Hard stone
- Woody pinecones
- Shimmering abalone shell
- Patterned shells
- Big and small shells
- Coarse sandpaper
- Pointed air plant
- Fluffy string
- Smooth driftwood
- Long and short sticks
- Twirling coral
- Riffled cardboard
etc!

S E N S O R I E S E & K R E A T I E W E
V R Y H E I D 🪸
- 18 - 24 maande peuters
- Drukwerk met opgerolde, herwinde, geriffelde karton
- Skakerings van koraal en balletpienk

P I N K P L A Y 🦩🪷
- Today we used smooth pieces of driftwood and wooden rollers with our aromatic pink playdough.
- The children explored different textures, rolled and pressed, and used natural materials to make patterns.
- Sensory play at its best and a wonderful way to support joyful discovery.

Klei-Klei
Tiny Tree Toys

P I E N K P R E T 🦩🪷
- Pienk teksture
- Skeur en plak met herwinde tydskrifpapier
- Agtergrond van ou herwinde bladmusiek papier

'N T E K E N R E I S 🖼

Hoekom is herhaalde teken so belangrik vir kinderontwikkeling?
✨️ Dit is die voorvaardighede vir skryfvaardighede.
✨️ Vrye en ongekunstelde teken ontwikkel kreatiewe uitdrukkingsvermoëns.
✨️ Kinders teken wat hulle weet en voel en nie wat hulle sien nie - Dis die weerspieëling van kinderharte op papier.

Hoe ontwikkel tekeninge?
✨️ Met herhaling van pragtige merke, krabbels en lyne.
✨️ Geen voorteken ooit.
✨️ Geen blootstelling aan inkleurboeke se volwasse tekenprentjies nie.