Here’s what happened in our Happy Hopper class last week.  

  We learnt all about health and hygiene. How to take a bath and the importance of brushing our teeth and our hair. We also spoke about toilet hygiene. We sang a song called this is the way we brush our teeth etc.  

 For our art piece, we concentrated on our fine motor colouring in skills. We coloured in a picture of a person with an open mouth and we used beans to stick in the mouth for teeth. We concentrated on reminding the Hoppers to remember to brush their teeth twice a day. We won’t be sending this art piece out as we will be keeping it for our art show.   

  We did two germ experiments to demonstrate how quickly germs can spread and what we can use to stop spreading germs.   

Our first experiment was a science experiment where we had a plate of water and pepper floating in the plate. We explained to the children that the pepper is like germs. As we added soap to our fingers and put our finger in the water the pepper moved to the side of the plate, showing how soap kills germs. Our second experiment was with glitter. We put some glitter on our hands and pretended that the glitter was the germs. As we touched our legs, hands, or faces the glitter would spread. We explained to the children that this is how easily germs can spread, and we need to wash our hands with soap.  

Cooking this week we concentrated on the skill of mixing we  

  Our Hoppers learnt about the letter C this week and we sounded out the letter and then we looked around the class to see if we could see if we could see objects that start with the letter H.   

   Happy Hoppers Yoga: Happy Hoppers yoga morning 🐞 Today, we did animal yoga. Using our magic yoga bag, we picked out little animals and discussed some interesting facts about each  of them while doing the relevant yoga poses.  

We incorporated our breathing techniques into our animal poses. 

Finishing off with relaxation and quiet time.  

Of course the Lion Pose was the favorite of the day  

 For FunFit Sports this week the Hoppers showed off their aiming skills they had to throw coloured balls at a target board and see how many balls they could throw through the holes in the board. 

  What a wonderful week we had!  

  PLEASE check your little one’s nails. Keep them short and neat.   

 This week we spread the love with our theme of “My emotions,” especially with-it being Valentine’s Day on Friday.    

 Our Hoppers had a fun week speaking about love and why we love our mommy’s, daddy’s, our families, and friends and even our pets. We also spoke about our feelings and the different emotions we may feel from time to time.  

We had so much fun making our special valentines hot air ballon. We painted a paper cup brown added two ice cream sticks for ropes and for the ballon we collaged it pink for girls and blue for boys with tissue paper we then cut out some heart to place over the collaged part of the balloon we also added a photo of each Hopper inside the cup.  

The Hoppers loved baking heart shaped biscuits for Valentines day. They also got to ice it and put some sprinkles on the top of their biscuits and place them in packets as a special Valentines day treat.  

  On Friday we celebrated Valentine’s Day with Valentine’s disco. Our Hoppers had so much fun dancing and showing off their great dance moves.    

   Happy Hoppers Yoga Day on Friday was so much fun. Yay yay YOGA! 

Today was all about hip mobility . These exercises and poses help improve flexibility, range of motion and stability in the hips. 

Our songs for the morning: 

🐰you can’t do nothing sitting on the floor 

🐰 breath by breath 

Ending off with quiet time. 

  Please remember not to send any toys to school from home.  

Remember to label all belongings.    

  It has been a wonderful week filled with lots of love, laughs and happiness.   

  Next week our theme is Health Hygiene Manners and Etiquette.   

  Enjoy your weekend   

Our Hoppers!