We have has a super busy week trying to get all our beautiful Easter art together but also really concentrated on numbers this week. 

This week’s theme really highlighted how much progress the Crew are making. I love how we are now able to give them simple instructions and they are able to make their artwork their own! It was so cute to see the little bunny faces that they drew on their Easter card and how each little style of carrot drawing was different but similar, completely unique to each individual. This makes our teacher hearts so proud and I’m sure you as parents too! 

We put a lot of efforts into the cute little Easter art that we completed too and what better way to remember Easter 2024 than a special handprint. It’s a real little piece of treasure. 

As mentioned above, this week we focused all our activities on numbers. We did number writing 1 – 20 on white boards. I wrote the number first and showed them the correct formation in which to write their numbers. We had some lovely number writing but please still do little number writing activities at home, it makes a HUGE difference. The Crew also has to trace of number 1- 10 and we also did a fun little painting activity painting over numbers 1 – 10 with different colours and using ear buds. The colourful worksheet came out beautifully! We concluded our week of numbers with our first colour by numbers little bunny worksheet. Very proud of our Crew for doing really well in this colour by numbers activity! 

Cooking this week is no surprise but with a little surprise, we are making Rice crispy treat moulded into an egg with hidden jellybeans inside. DELICIOUS! I’m not too sure if the Crew are going to want to share this sweet Easter treat though.  

It’s with a sad heart we say farewell to Rileigh McCarthy as with will be her last week with her EcoKids Family. We wish you all the best on your new adventures Rileigh and we will miss your big smile and complimenting you on your cute little outfits each day. 

We hope that everyone has a beautiful and safe Easter, if you are travelling. We will see you all next week for an exciting week of Science and experiments. 

Next week’s theme: Science and Experiments 

Our Happy Crew!

This week in the Curious Crew class , we focused a lot on Easter during theme discussion, we focused on the real meaning behind Easter and we watched a few educational videos to try make it easier for the kids to understand, we also sang our weekly songs daily for our shape and we counted to our number too. Everyone loved speaking about Easter and their excitement for the Easter bunny was real!!

For Art this week , we had many fun easter activities planned for everyone, we made the cutest little egg shell plant, it was a fun idea Teacher Clarissa got from our Phonic book last week, called ‘Egg Heads’, each child had the chance to decorate their egg shells then place Chia seeds into their eggs, and its been their responsibility this week to water their seeds.

We also got super creative with waxies and water paint this week, each child had a secret pattern drawn on their eggs for their cards and they had to use different coloured water paints to bring out their patterns.

Using paper cups we really put on our creative caps and we made a hopping bunny using bottle caps, elastics and we drew on bunny faces and pasted on ears, the class did so well, and each of their bunnies are so unique.

 It was a lot of fun this week with all our different art activities we had planned for everyone , we all had a blast

On Wednesday we had a super fun and exciting outing to Eagles Tumbling at John Barrable Hall, the kiddies that went got to explore all the apparatus and they all got put into groups with different coaches and they got to part take in different activities that the coaches had planned for them 

 HEART MATTERS

This weeks Heart Matters lesson was based on how they feel according to what they hear, so teacher Hela played different music for them, and they had a turn to tell the group how they feel, the kiddies loved being able to dance and move around to different kind of music. It was an educational, and everyone defiantly learnt new things.

May everyone have a blessed Easter weekend with their friends and families, to those going away may you travel safely.

We are looking forward to Term 2 with our Curious Crew and all the fun times and adventures that lay ahead.

First Term Done And Dusted!

Can you believe we have made it to the end of Term 1 already? Although it has been a long term, time seems to have flown! Clarissa and I feel that we have accomplished so much with the Curious Crew this first term and we are so proud of their growth! All of them are well and truly settled into the routine of being a Curious Crew member and we look forward to seeing what the second term brings!

We have officially moved from the warm weather of the first term to Autumn and now our Winter term. The cold is definitely here already! We spent the whole of Monday inside working on art, reading stories and staying warm. The children are all very excited about Easter and the Easter Bunny coming! We had so much fun digging through the big box of buttons to make our Easter cards and today you finally get to see what your sock was used for! The children are so excited about them and cannot wait to take them home! We are so chuffed with how they turned out and we really hope you enjoy them!

We hope that you have a wonderful holiday and take a much needed break with your little Curious Crew kiddo – they deserve it too!

Stay safe and stay warm. Have a wonderful blessed Easter if you celebrate it!  See you all next term!

Happy, Hoppy Children!