At Sonas Atwell we celebrated our New Year 2021 through creating our own fireworks using a range of material. While the children created their master pieces they engaged in fun conversation with their Educator and friends. “Boom, boom, boom,” said a few children while spraying onto their paper and pasting the cupcake holders. While watching the colour drip down the paper the children said, “It …
Atwell Activities
Sonas Atwell – Caring For Our Babies
One of our favourite dramatic play experiences is caring for our pretend Sonas babies. With the educator the children share their ideas of caring for babies and experiences they observed. A few beautiful comments were made: “warm hugs will make him sleep best.”“keep your baby like this, she will sleep good.”“kisses make her feel good when baby cries.’ The experience provides the educator the …
Sonas Atwell – Our Christmas Preparation
All week the children were preparing for Christmas through meticulously painting baubles to place on their Christmas tree and baking cookies for Santa. Throughout the learning experiences the children and Educators’ shared their Christmas memories experience with family and friends. In addition, we expressed our hopes and wishes for the day particularly focussing on the presents Santa could …
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Sonas Atwell – Family Christmas Party
Cheers and laughter all around while celebrating our Christmas party at Sonas Atwell with our families. We all enjoyed scrumptious paella, yummy cupcakes and delicious cheese/smorgasbord. But best of all was our special visit from Santa, bringing Christmas cheer and pressies to all our children. It was a very special and joyous occasion with all of our families and it was wonderful …
Sonas Atwell – A Splash of Colour
Painting with water, especially coloured water is one of our favourite activities at Sonas Atwell. The children with the educator worked together mixing and pouring the buckets and trays with the coloured water. Using a range of tools, the children set up to experiment a range of painting techniques. The foot painting was hilarious, with each stomp the children’s vision was to create little …