Childcare Perth Activities
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Sonas Baldivis North – Healthy Eating
Unhealthy food and healthy foods. We printed out photos of different varieties of food and placed them in a bucket. We discussed healthy and not so healthy foods and the children were asked to sort through the foods and glue the healthy ones on the green side and the non-healthy foods on the red side….
Sonas Karrinyup – Looking After One Another
We have been learning how to take care of each other and part of this is to help a friend if they are injured. Our new friend Rheannon showed us how to apply bandages in case someone has hurt themselves. We also spoke about what happens when we get different injuries, who we can tell…
Sustainability at Sonas Midland!
We started our sustainability project in our center. All our children helped find cardboard boxes from our deliveries in the center and helped build their sustainability corner in our Arts. Together, we used in the past couple of days our sustainable resources such as cardboard, containers and glass jars to paint, create and play. We…
Sonas Coolbellup – French Is Back!
We are so excited that French has begun again for term 2. We have done a recap of what we learnt in Term 1. We practiced counting and emotions as well as singing some of our favourite French songs. Now on to our Term 2 agenda. Check back in a few week’s time to see…
Sonas Gosnells – Our Smallest Friends
A day in the life of our babies: Mirror play – recognition of self and exploration of facial features Mouthing toys – Babies explore orally as they begin to make sense of their world through sensorial investigation Tummy Time – Enhances and develops core gross motor movements. Solitary play – Builds sense of self and…
Sonas Atwell – Letter Recognition
The children participated in a letter hunt activity. The children used their letter recognition to find and match the letters on the board. Throughout this experience a few of the children asked about the letters in their name. We then went through each letter in their name and the sound and look of the letter.
Sonas Bayswater – Meal Review!
At Sonas Bayswater we have recently swapped to our Winter menu. The children have reviewed the menu and spoke about all the different kinds of foods they like, dislike and what they would like to try so then we could come back and review the foods when they had tasted them. This week the children…
Sonas Baldivis South – Anzac Day in the Nest
Last week our younger children explored their fine motor skills, repurposing red recycled pouch lids and paper towel rolls as part of our Anzac Day explorations. To begin the educator showed the children red poppy flowers explaining that they are special flowers for Anzac Day. The children watched as the educator demonstrated placing one of…
Sonas Woodbridge – Safety Lessons
This week we have been talking about safety in all aspects, for road safety week we talked about traffic lights and what it means, the importance of wearing helmets while we ride our bikes and crossing roads safely. Then we talked about behaviour and the children offered up some safe and unsafe examples. The children…
Sonas Wanneroo – Messy Play Fun!
This week we have extended from our Pirate themed Messy Play event through even more textured sensory play experiences. Exploring textures and engaging in messy play is a great way to support children’s sensory processing by stimulating the tactile system (the sense of touch) and developing a further understanding of things such as hot/cold, textures, and…
Sonas Huntingdale – Sensory Exploring
Sight, Smell, Taste, Sound and Touch, so many things to explore with sensory play. We loved being able to feel the stickiness of the cooked pasta,The hardness of the uncooked rice,The squishiness of the cooked rice,And pulling through the endless long spaghetti Sensory play can be created with so many different editable materials and we…
Sonas Ashby – Sink or Float
We have been learning about items that sink and float this week! Take a look at the photos.
Sonas Wattle Grove – First Aid Skills
This week started off with educators conducting a serious medical emergency drill. The children watched as our educators role modelled the appropriate steps to take in a medical emergency. Once it was conducted the children rushed over to the educators and checked to make sure that everyone was okay. Our children then began to work…
Sonas Baldivis North – Little Green Thumbs
Gardening requires children to practice and increase their fine motor skills. Planting seeds, scooping dirt and watering plants all help to improve motor skills, which can in term help to improve their concentration and learning capabilities. First we put our soil into our pots then put water in them to wet the soil, we then put…
Sonas Karrinyup – Happy Mother’s Day
Best Friends forever mum and me, picking flowers and climbing trees a shoulder to cry on, secrets to share, warm hearts and hands that really care. Thank you Mum for everything you do.
Sonas Gosnells – Benefits Of Sand Play
There are millions of reasons why children play in sand pits but it’s mostly because it’s heaps of fun!! When creating play experiences for the children in the sand pit Educators think about some of the following benefits to playing in the sand pit: – Sand play builds sensorial development – Providing children with an opportunity…
Sonas Coolbellup – Our Community
There has been lots going on in our community over the past few weeks. We have been enjoying the lovely weather and have been getting out and about in the community using the pram. We have enjoyed doing school pick ups and making community donations. We helped the Coolbellup community schools P&C President Lisa with…
Sonas Atwell – Rainbow Collages
Last week as the weather started to get colder we started the morning off in the Stem Room. The children got the opportunity to choose different coloured paper to create their own masterpiece. Our educator Jess created a rainbow with the assistance from the children, this is where we spoke about what coloured pieces of…
Sonas Bayswater – Child Protection!
Recently staff at Sonas undertook child protection training to better educate themselves and the children we care for (Holly Ann – safe for kids, https://safe4kids.com.au ). This week our educators introduced a song called ‘Pantosaurus and his pant’ where it teachers’ children all about the word ‘NO’, why we use it and what it means. We also…
Sonas Baldivis South – Bike & Scooter Safety
Over the past month we have been discussing the importance of wearing helmets while riding our bikes and scooters, making sure we look and listen for traffic or dangers while we are riding them. The educators and children discussed why it is important to wear a helmet? The children gave lots of responses and they…