Happy Holi!

We were invited to wear our brightest colours to kindy to celebrate "Holi - The Festival of Colours”. Holi is the most vibrant Indian festival, marking the beginning of spring and also celebrates fertility, colour, love and the triumph of good over evil. There was dancing, face painting and we also explored colours by colour mixing, splat painting, play dough creations, dye dropping and creating our own colourful tshirt.  As we also celebrated Hailey's birthday we were very spoilt with some goodie bags and balloon twisting, creating flowers, bears and swords.  It is always so much fun participating in special cultural occasions.

celebrating Lunar New Year

This year is the Year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac. The Fire Horse represents energy, confidence, creativity, and strong spirit. People born in the Year of the Horse are said to be lively, adventurous, and full of enthusiasm...wonderful qualities to celebrate!

At Kindy, we embraced diversity by celebrating Lunar New Year through art, food, and music. The children created many beautiful artworks, including fans painted with delicate cherry blossoms, vibrant dragon pictures, and colourful lanterns that brightened our learning space.

Through these creative experiences, they enjoyed discovering traditions in a hands-on and meaningful way.

We also cooked and tasted delicious food together. The children helped prepare honey soy chicken noodles, carefully chopping vegetables and mixing the tasty sauce. We shared vegetarian dumplings as well, talking about how special foods are often enjoyed during celebrations. It was a wonderful way to explore culture, try new flavours, and come together in the spirit of community and celebration.

A big thank you to the Phromtonwong family (Oscar) for the lovely honeycomb cookies you shared with us too!.

T is for Tiger

 

    The children have been interested in exploring the phonetical sounds of letters.  We had set       up a provocation, that had an image from the book of 

    "The Tiger that came to tea". 

      The children used vivid, and pastels.  It was really cool to see the unique interpretations of         their own tigers. The detail and concentration and chatter amongst them was interesting.  The children are developing their fine motor skills by having stronger control and movement using pens and pastels  in a creative way. We spoke about directions as they drew circles, and straight lines, up and down.  Which is a great knowledge and practice for letter formation when they are ready to explore writing.