happyhoppers | Eco-Kids Preschool

Travel and Holidays

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Travel & Holidays

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Yellow

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Square

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Recap

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Hh – Hot

This week was full of adventure and learning about holidays and traveling.

We had some fun discussions and role-play activities about traveling. The Happy Hoppers used their imagination to go in a Holiday with an aeroplane. We re-enacted how to book our tickets, pack our bags, drive to the airport, and check in with our tickets. Lastly, we had a fun fly around with our arms stretched out wide! It truly was so much fun watching the children emerge themselves into the activity.

The Hoppers enjoyed some gross motor activities by throwing and catching a ball. Its impressive how well they have advanced during the year. You are all superstars!

We have started our 12 days before Christmas. The kids did a wonderful job painting our Christmas tree and creating all their Christmas art. Thank you to all the Hoppers who have donated, keep up the good work.

All the teachers in the Happy Hopper class wishes you a wonderful weekend, let us give the last stretch our all!

Next week’s theme: Christmas

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Shops and Shopping

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Shops & Shopping

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COLOUR

White

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Oval/Triangular Prism

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Recap

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LETTER

Qq – Queue

This week was all about shopping, something all our Happy Hoppers enjoy!

They are so aware of all the logos displayed to them and named them with such confidence. When talking about money, we had a bit of a chuckle as most of them said that their parents only use cards. So adorable!

The Hoppers had so much fun going for their shopping on Thursday. Thank you to all the parents for the wonderful goodies that was sent. They were all so excited to choose and use their wallets that they made.

For art, The Happy Hoppers started on their Christmas crafts. They are all so excited that we are getting closer to the festive season. We are sure that everyone will enjoy their beautiful creations.

FunFit sports was so much fun this week. The Hoppers were true to their name by starting off by doing vertical tyre jumps. The ended their session with a 100m dash. Wow the Happy Hoppers really showcased how fast they run. We are so proud of how much they have progressed this year!

For Yoga, this week The Happy Hoppers listened to a yoga story about kindness. How to be kind to each other by saying and doing kind things. We practised a few poses whilst listening to dolphin and ocean sounds. Our poses of the day were: dog, cat, mouse, cow, lion, eagle, butterfly, turtle, and camel.

We are looking forward to our outing on Monday! The Happy Hoppers are going to have so much fun. We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Cooking and Food

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Cooking & Food

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Purple

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Rectangle/Rectangular Prism

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Cc – Cooking / Ff – Food

What a fun filled week the Hoppers had! From cooking to a wonderful morning showing off our Yoga skills to our parents. It was such a special day to display how Teacher Yoga works with us on a weekly basis. Thank you to each and every parent who could join us today. It was truly a wonderful morning.

This week was all about cooking and boy did we have fun! For our first activity we focused on our fine motor skills by threading fresh fruit onto skewers. Our fruit kebabs were enjoyed by all the Happy Hoppers. Next, we had our taste buds dancing by creating our very own Calzones. We used wraps as the base, and the kids could choose their own toppings to put on. There was only one word for them: Yum!

We also learnt the difference between a 2D, and 3D shape. It was so interesting watching them explore the rectangular prism and counting the sides. Our “big” word for this week was: dimensional. Most of our Hoppers was able to say this with ease. You all are getting so big now.

For Fun Fit Sports, Coach Trevor made the kids do races and even ran all the way around the playground. The Happy Hoppers had so much fun doing this activity and showing off how fast they are!

We hope all the parents enjoy their time with their little ones this weekend. Don’t forget to ask them to cook their newly learnt dishes for you!

Does pineapple belong on pizza? We wanna know what you think!

Dates to Diarise:

13 Nov: Shopping Activity (during school)

15 Nov: CC Entrepreneur Market

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Under The Sea

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Under The Sea

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COLOUR

Dark Blue

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Circle/Cylinder

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NUMBER

Recap

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LETTER

Uu – Under

What a fun two weeks we had learning all about the creatures under the sea. All with a well-deserved break in-between.

The Happy Hoppers was very busy this week with all fine and gross motor activities. They did so well with their pencil control with the fun under the sea activity. They loved moving their body to the jelly fish song and for art they made some magic with a starfish salt painting. The amazement the showed when the saw how the salt lets the food colouring spread was so fun to watch.

We were so proud of the Hoppers showing patience with the tortoise race. And the great posture they displayed. The picked up the instructions of the activity very quickly and understood that slow and steady wins the race!

For yoga, this week The Happy Hoppers worked on picture and pose association once again. There were a variety of pictures with animals and transport. Some pictures have numbers 1-5; we did various breath work according to the number. The Hoppers matched or poses according to the pictures, lion, elephant, monkey, crocodile, motorcycle, train, dolphin, and eagle. We ended our session with 3 minutes of relaxing time.

We are looking forward Mommy/Daddy and Me Yoga next week … see you there!

Weekend ... SHELL YEAH!

Dates to Diarise:

6 Nov: Haircut Day

7 Nov: Mommy/Daddy & Me Yoga

8 Nov: Mommy/Daddy & Me Yoga

13 Nov: Shopping Activity (during school)

15 Nov: CC Entrepreneur Market

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Fantasy

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Fantasy

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Rainbow, Black & Dark Grey

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Recap, Star, Crescent

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Recap

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Mm – Mystical

Oh, how fortunate our little ones are to still explore their wonderful imagination without boundaries! We used this opportunity to create our own Happy Hopper world.

We rowed our pretend boats down a river with a friend and made the most delicious pastries. We even learnt how to pronounce our pastries by the correct name “Palmier.” We used our fine-motor skills to roll out the pastry with a rolling pin. We mixed the cinnamon sugar and even helped to roll the pastry into the well-known shape of The Palmier. The Happy hoppers thoroughly enjoyed their crispy Palmier, and they were finished in the blink of an eye.

Coach Trevor helped us to strengthen our upper bodies by using the monkey bars. Our Happy Hoppers truly are improving their coordination so well.

For Yoga, this week was all about Balance. The Hoppers moved from one pose to the next balancing on one leg. Our pose sequence was Mountain, chair, tree, airplane, peacock, prayer pose, tree chair mountain. Flowed by breath work and relaxation whilst listening to a story called “the Enchanted Forest”

Let us know on your class WhatsApp groups folks ... Are you part of the Indian TRIBE ... or do you with the Cowboys RIDE?

Dates to Diarise:

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Insects and Bees; Frogs and Ponds, Rivers and Dams

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THEME

Insects & Bees; Frogs & Ponds, Rivers & Dams

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Yellow; Light Blue/Turquoise

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Hexagon; Oval/Tear Drop

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14 and 15

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Ii; Mm

What a busy two weeks of learning all about insects and bees, ponds and all the creatures that live there!

The Happy Hoppers enjoyed listening to sounds of ponds at night and trying to identify the creatures. They even learned that the African bullfrog is an endangered species. How lucky are we to go to school right next to one of South Africa’s bullfrog conservation wetlands? Our “big word” this week was Amphibian, and our Hoppers are doing quite well with this word. We also went through the life cycle of the frog! What an amazing transformation these creatures go through.

We concentrated on our Hoppers cutting skills this week as well as placement of drawings. It’s amazing how much they have grown since the beginning of the year. Well done Hoppers. We have started assessments this week, and we are so excited to see all the progress they have made.

For Fun Fit Sports this week, Coach Trevor made the Happy Hoppers play a game of bowling! What a fun way to improve their hand-eye coordination. They truly enjoyed this activity and tackled this task with immense enthusiasm.

Yoga Day

“Rollercoaster ride” Hoppers had to sit in a line with our legs spread wide on each side of our friend. We stretched upwards, forward, left and right. Our breathing exercise: lying on our backs with our head on our tummy. We matched our breathing with each other, feeling our friends’ tummy lift up as we breathe in and down as we exhale. The aim is to breathe together as one but there was so much giggling going on!

Have a lovely weekend with your little ones. I’m sure they are going to love our theme: Fantasy, next week.

Let us know on your class WhatsApp groups folks ... Are you part of the Indian TRIBE ... or do you with the Cowboys RIDE?

Dates to Diarise:

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Countries and Cultures

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Countries & Cultures

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Flag Colours

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Rectangle/Rectangular Prism

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12 & Recap

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Pp – Pride

To teach the children about Heritage Day this week we learnt all about cultures. How lucky we are to live in a country where everyone embraces all our diverse cultures and beautiful country! It was very informative to know all about:

Our national bird: The Blue Crane

Our national animal: The Springbok

Our national tree: The Yellowwood Tree

Our national flower: The Protea

Our national fish: The Galjoen

The Hoppers enjoyed painting our flag with their fingers. This was a good activity to improve their fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, colour recognition. We are so busy preparing for the art show coming up. The Hoppers are creating the most beautiful pieces to show off on the night!

For yoga the Hop0pers learn all about teamwork. The group flower pose is only possible if everyone can balance, create a circle by holding hands and keep their core strength tight whilst lifting their leg up. The hoppers had so much fun and was able to hold this pose for 15 second. Well done Hoppers.

We would like to wish all our September Hoppers a very Happy Birthday! Bohlale, Iyana, Zayden and Ella, we are so proud of the wonderful kids you have become. Thank you to all the parents for the delicious ice-cream and making the day so special for them.

Wishing everyone a lovely long weekend, enjoy the time with your little ones. Stay warm

See you on Wednesday!

Have a wonderful LONG WEEKEND!

Dates to Diarise:

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Spring, Flowers, & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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Lime & Brown

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Semi-Circle & Sphere

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1 – 11

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Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

We would like to welcome everyone back from a much deserved break. We look forward to a busy but fun Term 3!

The last two weeks we learnt all about Spring, Plants and Trees.

The Hoppers liked to learn how spring brings blossoms to the trees. They enjoyed learning that a bud turns into a blossom, which in turn becomes fruit. The importance of trees, and all the amazing things trees can provide us. We observed what in our environment is made from wood.

For art we decorated our handmade paper, it was so fun to see how we can reuse paper into such a beautiful new piece. We did some paper plate sponging and went on a nature walk to collect sticks. We made a blossom tree by printing with bubble wrap and used the sticks we collected to finish off this amazing piece of art.

As a life skill, we learnt to grate. It was so refreshing to smell and taste the freshly grated lemons! All the Hoppers did so well with this life skill.

The Hoppers enjoyed a song for Yoga that got them standing up straight, balancing on one leg and working on their warrior 1 and 2 pose. We practiced our bear, snake and candle breathing techniques. Finishing off with a simple sequence of: tree, cat, cow and dog poses. What a fun class!

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend with the weather becoming hotter after a cold week. Enjoy the wonderful colours and smells the new season brings us.

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Dinosaurs – Under the Soil

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Dinosaurs

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Green

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Triangle/Cone/Sphere

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NUMBER

Recap

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Dd – Day

What a fun two weeks of learning all about dinosaurs!

There was so much knowledge for our Happy Hoppers to absorb, and WOW! They did so well!

They learnt all about the diverse types of dinosaurs … ones that used to swim and ones that used to fly, even though not all flying dinosaurs had feathers. They even remembered big words like Pterodactyl, Pterosaurs, Paleontologist and when the first fossils were discovered (over two hundred years ago!)

We listened to some fun songs with even more information about dinosaurs. Even our worksheets were dinosaur themed! During these two weeks we concentrated on cutting skills, drawing of shapes, counting and colours. Our beautiful artwork of a dinosaur shadow will be displayed at the Art show. Our Happy Hoppers are getting so excited to show all their creativity!

For FunFit Sports this week, Coach Trevor carried on improving our hand-eye coordination with catching and batting. Our Happy Hoppers are getting so good with this activity.

Yoga Day was all about dinosaurs too!

We marched and stomped, roared, rolled around in happy baby pose and calmed our breath like a baby Dinosaur.

Ending off with a sequence of tree, cat, cow, dog, snake poses.

Enjoy the well-deserved break! It was a busy term. We can’t wait for the new adventures that lie ahead for Term 3.

Have a wonderful holiday folks!

Dates to Diarise:

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

2 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

3 Sept: Staff Return To School

4 Sept: First Day of Term 3!

6 Sept: Haircut Day

9 Sept: School Photographs

10 Sept: School Photographs

11 Sept: School Photographs

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Space

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THEME

Space

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Orange

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Diamond

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NUMBER

10 Recap

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Nn- Night

What a fun exciting two weeks we have had! Last week was all about concert and we are so proud of all our Hoppers, they are all Superstars. 

 We had a lot of fun with this theme and really tapped into our imagination chatting about space. The Hoppers learnt so much about Space. We did some fun activities like catching a star with tweezers hidden in a bucket of beads. This is such a wonderful fine motor activity. We also tried to copy and create our own planets with loose parts, this was great fun. 

 Our Hoppers love dancing to songs and loved learning the words to the planet song. After we listened to the planet song the children were all hyped up and excited to start their planet artworks project. 

 We did an amazing balloon painting to create planets. These came out so amazing, we decided to keep them for the art expo.

 We focused on our letter of the week. We read all about Noisy Nick and all the noise he likes to make. The rest of the week we finished off our art and watched some space videos and some astronauts in space, and even a space rocket launch. This was so exciting to watch, and our Hoppers loved it.  

 For FunFit sports this week, the Hoppers did an obstacle course with Coach Trevor using the jungle gym, they loved this and did so well when they got to the monkey bars. Well done Hoppers. 

Yay for Yoga! Wheels on the bus yoga. Ankle rotations/rolls help improve blood circulation in the ankle and legs. It is also excellent for improving ankle mobility and flexibility. Our various poses included Open leg forward bend. Triangle Pose, Child Pose, Spinal twists and one leg balance poses.

 Thank you for all the donations for our Concert, we really appreciate it. 

  Our theme next week is: Dinosaurs 

 Have a safe and lovely weekend! 

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Precious Stars!

Reptiles

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Reptiles

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White

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Hexagon

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1-10

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Ll – Lizard

We had an action-packed week, we’re sure the Hoppers must be exhausted from all the fun that was had.  

  We started off the week revising our letter of the week. We sang and danced to our jolly phonics letters and read our letter land book ,Lucy Lamp Lady. After our story, we went around the class and each Hopper got to tell us a word starting with the letter “L’’. Well done, Hoppers! 

 For our Art this week the Hoppers coloured in a snake and practiced their cutting skills and cut their snake into a spiral. I am so proud of our Hoppers, they did a fantastic job! This was a fun fine motor skills activity, and the children were incredibly happy with their snakes. 

We focused a lot on number recognition 1 to 10. This is very important to be able to achieve this skill before going to Curious Crew next year so please keep practising Hoppers.

 The highlight of the week was the reptile show. Julian from Wild Ones showed us his amazing and wonderful animals. The huge tarantula was a hit as well as the snakes. 

On Friday for Yoga, we practiced our Reptile Yoga poses. We also focused a lot on spinal twist exercises, which activates the spinal nerves and enhances flexibility and blood circulation. 

  Concert practice has been in full swing this week; our Hoppers are doing so well. We are so proud of them and cannot wait for the big day! I’m sure most of you already know all our songs, so happy to hear our Hoppers are practicing at home. Keep it up! 

  Our theme next week is: Space 

See you on Monday!

Dates to Diarise

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Winter, Temperatures, Fire and Ice

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THEME

Winter, Temperatures, Fire & Ice

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COLOUR

Grey

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Rectangle & Rectangular Prism

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NUMBER

8

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Ww – Winter

The Happy Hoppers have been working extremely hard this week.

We spoke about Winter temperatures and how cold it can get and different clothing we can wear in winter like boots scarfs, gloves, and jackets. We discussed warm foods to eat like soups, stews, and curries. We also spoke about activities we enjoy doing in winter. Some of the Hoppers told us what they like to do in Winter like watching movies.

We did a fine motor activity where the children had to take round stickers and paste it over the circles on the pictures of gloves, scarfs, or a winter jersey. For our main art activity the Hoppers did some straw painting where they had to use a straw to blow paint to make a fire and underneath it they used their index fingers to paint the logs of the fire.

At FunFit sports Coach Trevor played some cricket with the Hoppers and taught them some batting skills which is super good to improve their eye-hand co-ordination, laterality, and their general ball skills.

Yoga this week was also a blast they warmed up with a body boogie song and went on to Foot Rolling. Our prop for the day was a drumstick, they had to sit in boat pose and by using their feet and core muscles they rolled the stick forwards and backwards.

We have really been working hard and are looking forward wo our Mid-term break.

Have a wonderful weekend and break.

Have a wonderful Mid-Term break!

Dates to Diarise

8 July: Back To School

11 July: Haircut Day

12 July: Reptile Day

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts