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Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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THEME

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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COLOUR

Black

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SHAPE

Square & Cube

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NUMBER

1 & 2

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LETTER

Zz – Zebra

Welcome back to Term 2!

We were thrilled to see how excited our Hoppers were to be back at school. It has been a very busy two weeks with all the excitement of seeing friends and teachers again and learning about wild animals.

Wow, what a jam-packed short first week we had back at school.

During ring time we spoke about wild animals and what makes them “wild”; we also spoke about our Big 5 and birds of prey, hunters, and carnivores.

We played an audio game, where we played the sounds that various wild animals make, and the Hoppers had to guess the name of the animal that the sound belongs to. Some animals like the lion, were quite easy to identify but other sounds like a Buffalo and Nyala were a bit trickier! This was such a fun guessing game and our children enjoyed it thoroughly!

We also focused on our letter of the week “z” and the colour of the week “black”. We had fun turning the letter “z” into a Zebra. The Hoppers had to first trace over the letter “z” and then they finger-painted stripes onto the letter “z”, what a fun way to get our fine motor skills going while learning that “z” is for zebra.

We tapped into our imagination and went on a “Safari Drive”. The Happy Hoppers made binoculars out of toilet rolls and painted them a colour of their choice. On Friday last week, the teachers hid toy animals around the school playground, and we took our binoculars to see which wild animals we could see. So, if the children come home saying they saw a lion, you know why! J

Our theme this week was still wild animals and Mothers and babies in celebration of Mother’s Day on Sunday. We started the week off with great fine motor activity and did some fun tracing activities with whiteboard markers and laminated sheets of paper with shapes, numbers, and patterns. Tracing helps little ones refine their pre-writing skills and builds the foundation for drawing and writing letters and words.

For our art we started with our Mother’s Day cards, these came out so cute! We started off by painting the palm of the Hopper’s hands and made yellow handprints, these are our suns on the card. They then sponge-painted white clouds onto the paper, after the clouds were dry, we glued our suns, and the hoppers finger-painted the letter “m” on either side of the sun creating the word mom. J

For cooking we made ‘Mom you are “Tea”-riffic’ biscuits, we made simple cookie dough, and the children helped add ingredients and mix them all together. We then rolled the dough and cut out teabag-shaped cookies, once baked we dipped them into delicious chocolate. Hope all the moms enjoy! J

We also made a sugar body scrub. For this activity, we melted coconut oil, added some Lavender essence, and lastly added the sugar once the oil had cooled a bit. We hope our Hopper mommies feel spoilt, as you most certainly deserve it (P.S. Let the tub soak in warm water to soften).

Our theme next week will be: Farm, Fruit and vegetables.

Have a safe and lovely weekend.

We know it can get tough out there moms ... Thank you for all that you do!

Dates to Diarise:

19 May: Haircut Day

2 June: Hearing Tests

7 June: Haircut Day

15 June: Bike-a-Thon Day

16 June: Youth Day (Public Holiday)

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day and Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Kate-Lynn, Teacher Katy and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

We Missed These Faces!

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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THEME

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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COLOUR

Black

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SHAPE

Square



NUMBER

1 & 2

j

LETTER

Zz – Zebra

This has been the most amazing week for so many reasons! We missed our Pups so much over the holiday and it’s just so amazing to have them back! We sure have had a ton of fun at school this week even though it was such a short week. There was so much to learn about! Wow! This Wild Animal theme is such a fun and interesting one.

We began our art piece by making a pair of binoculars to take on an adventure walk to see what “pretend” wild animals could see. We also made a paper plate lion … this was a lot of fun and we have decided to keep it for our Art Expo.

We did a lot of puzzles building this week and the Pups are really getting good at this activity.

Thank you all for bringing in recycled materials to rebuild our art supplies. Please continue to set aside anything we can use for art. Please also bring us any toys you are throwing out. We can always find a home for them, if not with us, then with one of our charities.

Then BOOM we went straight into our new week.

Mommies and Babies and Mother’s Day

Colour: Black

Number: 1

Shape: Square

Moral Conscious: Mommy knows best – respect authority

Then, it was Mommy week! The kids LOVED it! All the children had a great time playing mommy or daddy and it was so lovely to see their nurturing natures come out. Children are so naturally gentle and kind! And they know what to do when they see a baby and a pram. It was adorable. Don’t be scared to buy your boy child a doll if he wants one – they are practicing to be great, hands – on dads! We chatted about mommies and what they do for their children, the names of animal mommies and their babies (for example, a dog and a puppy!) and we chatted about where a baby grows, what a baby needs and how to look after a baby.

We made a special present for mom this week. We were out in the sunshine planting a very special plant for mom and made a very special card for mom that we attached to the plant. This was a great sensory activity even though some little bodies weren’t so eager to get their hands dirty. We also made an amazing lip balm for you moms, out of Vaseline coconut oil and honey.

We had a thoroughly enjoyable week and it is great to be back.

A few reminders in general:

Keep nails short, to avoid scratching accidents.
Start your child on a multivitamin like Crèche Guard (if you haven’t already) to try beat the winter bugs going around. Also, please refer to the Sick Policy and keep children who are ill at home so we can minimize the spread of colds and flu.
Label, label, label EVERYTHING! … In winter there are many more items of clothing coming to school and during the day as it warms up, we tend to remove layers and then things get very easily mixed up and sent home with the wrong child. The playground looks like a cupboard at the end of playtime as the children strip off layers and just drop them as they warm up. Lazarus then brings us what he thinks is ours based on size but it would really help if everything had a label. Keep warm and get back to us safely on Monday!

Have a wonderful weekend. We look forward to another fun week of learning.

Next week’s theme is: The Farm: Fruit and Vegetables

We know it can get tough out there moms ... Thank you for all that you do!

Dates to Diarise:

19 May: Haircut Day

2 June: Hearing Tests

7 June: Haircut Day

15 June: Bike-a-Thon Day

16 June: Youth Day (Public Holiday)

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day and Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Cecilia and the Playful Pups Assistants

We Missed These Faces!

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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THEME

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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COLOUR

Black



SHAPE

Square



NUMBER

1 & 2

j

LETTER

Zz – Zebra

Welcome back to school for the second term!

We were so happy to see your smiling faces on Wednesday morning! The holidays were long, but we can assure you that all of them are having happy and (mostly) warm and sunny days at school with their friends!

We cannot believe how much they have grown! A lot of them have come back to school fully potty trained, some of them are talking so much all of a sudden, and they are all listening very well – we sense a general “maturity” increase happened during the holidays as it always does, and we are very proud of them!

We spent every day of this short week, having very intense and long ring times, discussing animals from all over Africa and other wild animals from around the world such as tigers and kangaroos! We learned so many cool and fun facts about these animals and the children were hanging on to our every word! It is amazing to watch their little faces while they are engaged with a topic that really excites them! Too sweet to see! We listened to the sounds these animals make thanks to the wonder of technology, and watched many little video clips of them! It has taken some effort this week to remind them that they are indeed little people and not really monkeys and lions! Haha! What a special time.

For art this week, we made the cutest recycled Pringle tin Giraffe hand puppets. Unfortunately, you are only going to be able to view these at Art Expo!

This theme also continued over to this week, and we learned about animal mommies in the wild, and how they look after their babies.

Have an amazing weekend, and we will see you back next week for another exciting theme!

Theme: Mothers and their Babies, Mother’s Day

Colour: Pink

Shape: Heart

Number: 1

Letter: M – Mommy

Moral Conscience Theme: Respecting authority – mommy knows best!

This week, was all about MOM! We learned all about mothers and their babies and it was so sweet to see how much our little Bugs know about this topic! They all had lots to say about their own mommies, telling us what they love about you and everything you do for them.

We asked them to tell us all about what a mommy does for her baby. The Bugs know that mommies grow babies “in their tummies” (bless them) and that a mommy gives her baby milk, and keeps them warm and changes smelly nappies! Mommies sing to their babies and bath them, and make them feel better when they are sick! They also make food for their babies and give lots of hugs and kisses! What lucky children!

We also learned that animal babies have special names! A baby cow is called a calf; a baby horse is called a foal. Pigs have piglets and cats have kittens! Dogs have puppies and sheep have lambs. Goats have kids (this was a little confusing – hehe!) Lions and bears have cubs, while wolves and seals have pups. And ALL these mommies look after their babies so nicely and make sure that they have everything they need!

This is why it’s important to make mommies feel special on their one very special day each year called “Mother’s day!”

For a gift this year, our Bugs made beautiful tie-dyed flower necklaces that they sprayed with food colouring themselves. We also made the cutest, handprint flowerpot cards. We hope you love these special gifts that your Bugs made for you!

Happy Mother’ Day, all you super moms!

Winter is well and truly upon us, so please make sure you dress your children in layers that can be easily removed. Label everything! If you would like, you may also send a labelled beanie to use at playtime so we can keep those heads warm and the chilly wind out of their ears! May we suggest you start using extra vitamin C or an immune booster so that all our Bugs can hopefully stay germ free this winter!

Next Week’s Theme: On the Farm: Fruit and Veg

Next Week’s Show and Tell: Amari and Ryleigh

We know it can get tough out there moms ... Thank you for all that you do!

Dates to Diarise:

19 May: Haircut Day

2 June: Hearing Tests

7 June: Haircut Day

15 June: Bike-a-Thon Day

16 June: Youth Day (Public Holiday)

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day and Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

We Missed These Faces!

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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THEME

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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COLOUR

Black



SHAPE

Square & Cube



NUMBER

13 & 14

j

LETTER

Zz – Zebra

Moral Conscious Theme: Risk-taker – We explained to the Squad that to be a risk-taker you need to try new things and be open to making mistakes as there is always an opportunity to try again until you get it right.

We hope the Squad are well rested after the holidays, it’s great to be back! During this week and the short last week, we discussed weekend news and our themes for the relevant weeks.

Writing and Phonics: The Squad worked hard on remembering their sight words from last term and received three new sight words for this week “yes”, ”no” and “mom”. The squad then did two worksheets on the “ag” family and this week on the “at” family, they drew their sound buttons and then matched the words to the pictures. They then wrote their full sentences using their “ag” and “at” family words. Great work!

Mathematics: The Squad completed a fun worksheet on 3D shapes, they had to determine whether each picture matched with a cone, sphere, cylinder, or cube, they sang their 3D shapes song while completing this and caught on nicely, we are so proud! They then did two worksheets, one where they had to trace the numbers and write the missing numbers and the other one, they had to determine whether a number was more or less than another number.

Creative Art: The Squad made ostriches out of pipe cleaners for art last week which we will be using for our exciting Art Expo and this week they made beautiful Mother’s Day art out of Menu’s…Oooh you are going to be spoiled rotten this Sunday Moms…Enjoy!!!!

Music and Cooking: On Tuesday for Music, Teacher Katy came and did a fun music lesson where she taught the Squad about vocal cords, pitch, and the ladder of music. We also sang lots of Concert songs.

Afrikaans: We read a story about a cat and mouse. The Squad had to write on top of each picture that had a cat “kat” and mouse “muis”.

We are completing assessments over the next two weeks, please could we ask that your child attend school every day.

We know it can get tough out there moms ... Thank you for all that you do!

Dates to Diarise:

19 May: Haircut Day

2 June: Hearing Tests

7 June: Haircut Day

15 June: Bike-a-Thon Day

16 June: Youth Day (Public Holiday)

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day and Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

We Missed These Faces!

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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THEME

Wild Animals & Birds of Prey; Mommies & Babies

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COLOUR

Black



SHAPE

Square & Cube



NUMBER

13 & 14

j

LETTER

Zz – Zebra

Welcome back to Term 2 Curious Crew Parents ! And what a busy and adventurous term we have ahead ! We have many exciting things coming !

Theme discussions were full of fun detail and many different animals this week , we went beyond our ordinary animals , we explored the Amazon jungle, our Antarctic animals and so much more.

We spoke about the different environments that these places offer these animals , and we then had a look at what animals we get in these environments. Teacher Clarissa showed the class the most beautiful pictures of the different animals and the class was just taken away by the many different kinds.

For art this week , we made the most beautiful Chameleon art piece , each child had to water paint their chameleon , create their own cactuses, and design their own unique desert art piece using sand too.

It’s wonderful seeing all the different , unique pieces coming together.

For our shape of the week , we had to make our very own 3D cube , each child coloured in their cubes , we then helped them paste together their cube , and this helped them understand the concept of a 3D shape.

We also focused a lot on our very special Mother’s Day gifts for our very special mommies this week , the children really worked hard and added in a lot of love into these pieces too .

I am sure the mommies are going to LOVE their beautiful very special gifts.

FUNFIT SPORTS

This week we started our lessons with Coach Trevor , we focused on our races that will be in our upcoming Sports Day , we tackled jumping , throwing , running . Overall it was a very energetic and super busy sports lesson !

HEART MATTERS

This week in Heart Matters , Teacher Hela spoke about things and emotions that are in our control and that are not in our control , they all played a very cool game where we had to try and listen and guess who stole the toy bone from under the chair. Each kiddo had a turn and they loved this very fun game.

YOGA

Yoga was a little different…they played TETRIS! This game engages with several cognitive skills such as memory, matching and pattern recognition. It also promotes problem solving and thinking patterns. The aim of the game is to fit all the pieces in to fill up the board. It was a super fun activity and everyone woked nicely together as a team. Unfortunately we weren’t able to complete the board, but the Crew were amazing and only had one block left over in the end. We will definitely be playing this again in the future to see if we can get all the blocks onto the board.

It has been a fun and very busy 1 and a half weeks back at school !

May everyone have a blessed weekend !

Next weeks theme : The Farm – Fruits and Vegetables.

We know it can get tough out there moms ... Thank you for all that you do!

Dates to Diarise:

19 May: Haircut Day

2 June: Hearing Tests

7 June: Haircut Day

15 June: Bike-a-Thon Day

16 June: Youth Day (Public Holiday)

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day and Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 29, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

We Missed These Faces!

Mothers and Babies

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THEME

Mothers & Babies

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COLOUR

Pink



SHAPE

Heart



NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Mm – Mommy

Welcome back to all of our Hoppers! It is so awesome to see you all again! We were thrilled to see how excited our Hoppers were to be back at school. It has been a very busy short and loud week with all the excitement of seeing friends and teacher’s again.

Our theme this week was Mothers and Babies in celebration of Mother’s Day on Sunday. We hope that you like your card and present! Our Hoppers loved creating these goodies for you, Mommies!

The children’s favourite activity was making their heart shaped snacks! We used our fine motor skills to thread Froot Loops onto pipe cleaners, which they bent into the shape of a heart. The best part about this activity was eating the Froot Loops that were left over!

We also made a sugar body scrub. For this activity we melted coconut oil, added in some Lavender essence and lastly added brown sugar once the oil had cooled a bit. We hope our Hopper mommies feel spoilt, as you most certainly deserve it! (P.S. let the tub soak in warm water to soften).

The chilly Winter mornings have definitely arrived! Start your child on a multivitamin like Crèche Guard (if you haven’t already) to try beat the winter bugs going around. Also, please refer to the Sick Policy and keep children who are ill at home so we can minimize the spread of colds and flu. Label, label, label EVERYTHING! … In winter there are many more items of clothing coming to school and during the day as it warms up, we tend to remove layers and then things get very easily mixed up and sent home with the wrong child.

We look forward to seeing you all at our Sports day tomorrow!

Next week’s theme: The Farm – Fruit and Veggies

To all our AMAZING mommies ...

To the world, you are a mother.

But to your family, you are their WORLD!

Dates to Diarise:

Sports Day: 7 May

Haircut Day: 11 May

Optometrist: 13 May

Lots of love

Teacher Alexia, Teacher Kate-Lynn and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Mommies’ Munchkins!

Mothers and Babies

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THEME

Mothers & Babies

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COLOUR

Pink

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SHAPE

Heart

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NUMBER

14

j

LETTER

Mm – Mommy

Wow! What an exciting and fun short week we’ve had! During ring time we enjoyed discussing holiday news and awesome experiences of the holidays. We also discussed what Mother’s Day is and the things our mommies do for us.

Writing and Phonics: The Squad worked on sight words such as he, she, look, play, on, no, I, here, is, in, the, me, at, it, we, said, yes. We played a fun game that the Squad really enjoyed. Then we played hang man using their sight words, this was so much fun as everyone was able to identify the words and grasped this quite well. We introduced “sound buttons” where each letter had a dot under it, and when you push the button, you need to say the sound of the letter. We also practiced blending of letters to form words using the “ad family” such as “b-ad”, “s-ad”. Lastly, we completed a worksheet where each learner had to identify what the word is and match it to the picture by drawing a line.

Mathematics: This week we recapped our numbers from 1 to 20 as well as counting in 2’s.

Life Skills: With focusing on our moral conscious theme: Mommy knows best – Respect authority, we spoke about the importance of listening to, not only our moms, but having respect for your parents and that they love and care for you so deeply.

Creative Art: We completed our Mother’s Day art, we made Mother’s Day cards, key rings and beautiful bracelets for our special moms.

We are looking forward to the rest of the term together, we have a busy and eventful one ahead, but we are sure that the Squad are going to continue to blow us away!

Thank you and have a great weekend. See you all at our Sports Day tomorrow. and have a Happy Mother’s Day Smart Squad moms!

To all our AMAZING mommies ...

To the world, you are a mother.

But to your family, you are their WORLD!

Dates to Diarise:

Sports Day: 7 May

Haircut Day: 11 May

Optometrist: 13 May

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Mommies’ Munchkins!

Mothers and Babies

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THEME

Mothers & Babies

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COLOUR

Pink



SHAPE

Heart



NUMBER

14

j

LETTER

Mm – Mommy

Welcome back Curious Crew! Welcome to term 2.

It has been so wonderful to see all our cute kiddies! The Crew have easily adjusted to being back into the school routine.

This has been a short but busy week! We have been kept very busy making our Mother’s Day art! The Crew put a lot of effort into their pieces art and we just love how they have turned out!

We practiced some perceptual skills and learnt all about mothers and babies and the different names for baby animals.

During Fun Fit Sport w practiced for our Sports Day which is tomorrow! The Crew are so excited and we look forward to seeing you all there. Don’t forget to wear yellow!

The chilly Winter morning have definitely arrived! Start your child on a multivitamin like Crèche Guard (if you haven’t already) to try beat the winter bugs going around. Also, please refer to the Sick Policy and keep children who are ill at home so we can minimize the spread of colds and flu. Label, label, label EVERYTHING! … In winter there are many more items of clothing coming to school and during the day as it warms up, we tend to remove layers and then things get very easily mixed up and sent home with the wrong child.

Have a great weekend everyone, especially the moms! We hope you put your feet up and get lots of love and spoils.

Next week’s theme: The Farm – Fruit and Vegetables.

To all our AMAZING mommies ...

To the world, you are a mother.

But to your family, you are their WORLD!

Dates to Diarise:

Sports Day: 7 May

Haircut Day: 11 May

Optometrist: 13 May

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Jules and the Curious Crew Assistants

Mommies’ Munchkins!

Mothers and Babies

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THEME

Mothers & Babies



COLOUR

Pink



SHAPE

Heart



NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Mm – Mommy

Welcome back to school for the second term!

We were so happy to see the Bugs smiling faces on Wednesday morning! The holidays were very long, but we can assure you that all of them are having happy and (mostly) warm and sunny days at school with their friends!

We cannot believe how much the kiddies have grown! A lot of them have come back to school fully potty trained, some of them are talking so much all of a sudden, and they are all listening very well – we sense a general “maturity” increase happened during the holidays as it always does, and we are very proud of them!

We would like to welcome Teacher Nicole to our team. Teacher Nicole is our newest Busy Bugs assistant and she has already become very popular amongst the Bugs. We hope you love every minute with us Teacher Nicole!

This week, was all about MOM! We learnt all about mothers and their babies and it was so sweet to see how much our little Bugs know about this topic! They all had lots to say about their own mommies, telling us what they love about you and everything you do for them.

We asked them to tell us all about what a mommy does for her baby. The Bugs know that mommies grow babies “in their tummies” (bless them) and that a mommy gives her baby milk, and keeps them warm and changes smelly nappies! Mommies sing to their babies and baths them, and makes them feel better when they are sick! They also make food for their babies and give lots of hugs and kisses! What lucky children!

We also learnt that animal babies have special names! A baby cow is called a calf; a baby horse is called a foal. Pigs have piglets and cats have kittens! Dogs have puppies and sheep have lambs. Goats have kids (this was a little confusing – hehe!) Lions and bears have cubs, while wolves and seals have pups. And ALL these mommies look after their babies so nicely and make sure that they have everything they need!

This is why it’s important to make mommies feel special on their one very special day each year called “Mother’s Day!”

For a gift this year, our Bugs made a beautiful beaded necklaces that they threaded themselves. As well as gorgeous “pinch pot” out of salt dough, which the teachers stuck onto a beautiful piece of bark that the children found on a nature walk this week. This became a stunning jewellery holder. The dough was a little bit hard to pinch, so we did have to help them here and there, but we are so proud of the results your children was able to achieve.

This is a special art piece to remind you that even though clay is sometimes hard to mould and shape, if you persevere and keep at it, you will eventually have something beautiful. In the same way, being a mama is hard – the hardest job you will ever have – but if you keep at it and persevere, you will have a work of art in your child. We hope that you put it somewhere you can look at it daily, and that you keep your special jewellery pieces safe in it.

Happy Mother’ Day, all you super moms!

Winter is well and truly upon us, so please make sure you dress your children in layers that can be easily removed. Label everything! If you would like, you may also send a labelled beanie to use at playtime so we can keep those heads warm and the chilly wind out of their ears! May we suggest you start using extra Vitamin C or an immune booster so that all our Bugs can hopefully stay germ free this Winter!

We are so excited for our Sports Day tomorrow, and look forward to watching the Bugs kick some booty in all of the events!

Next Week’s Theme: On the Farm: Fruit and Veg

Next Week’s Show and Tell: Arlo and Theju

To all our AMAZING mommies ...

To the world, you are a mother.

But to your family, you are their WORLD!

Dates to Diarise:

Sports Day: 7 May

Haircut Day: 11 May

Optometrist: 13 May

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Mommies’ Munchkins!

Mothers and Babies



THEME

Mothers & Babies



COLOUR

Pink



SHAPE

Heart



NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Mm – Mommy

This has been the most amazing week for so many reasons! We missed our Pups so much over the holiday and it’s just so amazing to have them back! We are so happy and proud to see them following and remembering our routine after our holiday.

Then, it was Mommy week! The kids LOVED it! All the children had a great time playing mommy or daddy and it was so lovely to see their nurturing natures come out. Children are so naturally gentle and kind! And they know what to do when they see a baby and a pram. It was adorable. Don’t be scared to buy your boy child a doll if he wants one – they are practicing to be great, hands – on dads! We chatted about mommies and what they do for their children, the names of animal mommies and their babies (for example, a dog and a puppy!) and we chatted about where a baby grows, what a baby needs and how to look after a baby.

We made a special present for mom this week. We were out in the sunshine planting a very special plant for mom and made a very special card for mom that we attached to the plant. This was a great sensory activity even though some little bodies weren’t so eager to get their hands dirty. We also made an amazing lip balm for you moms, out of beeswax, coconut oil and peppermint oil. The children were fascinated with the texture of the beeswax sheets and the distinct smell it has.

We had a thoroughly enjoyable week and it is great to be back. Please, a few reminders in general: Keep nails short, to avoid scratching accidents. Start your child on a multivitamin like Crèche Guard (if you haven’t already) to try beat the winter bugs going around. Also, please refer to the Sick Policy and keep children who are ill at home so we can minimize the spread of colds and flu. Label, label, label EVERYTHING! … In winter there are many more items of clothing coming to school and during the day as it warms up, we tend to remove layers and then things get very easily mixed up and sent home with the wrong child. The playground looks like a cupboard at the end of playtime as the children strip off layers and just drop them as they warm up. Lazarus then brings us what he thinks is ours based on size but it would really help if everything had a label. Thank you and have a wonderful weekend! Keep warm and get back to us safely on Monday!

To all our AMAZING mommies ...

To the world, you are a mother.

But to your family, you are their WORLD!

Dates to Diarise:

Sports Day: 7 May

Haircut Day: 11 May

Optometrist: 13 May