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…
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…
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…
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…
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…