Our Afternoon Care program is truly
on its way!
For Book Week we designed a nice
little hiding place in the Town Square to serve one single goal –
reading. Children enjoyed this space where they relaxed, read books and engaged in imaginary play.
Over
the past few weeks we are also having some visitors to the ELC as part
of the afternoon program. Squid the Blue Tongued Lizard and Joy the Rabbit
are our first animals to visit from the Nature Education Centre. This program
aims to allow children to interact with and learn about animals, their
environments and their needs. Children will be given opportunities to hold, pat
and feed the animals and to observe their behaviours. The children have really
enjoyed having the animals here.
A change in location of activities was required to
supervise children interacting with our new animal as well as some new ways of
expression during play. Our block mat encourages children to build and connect
actions to feelings and we have children sharing happy dancing and parties
as they build people from the coloured blocks and faces.
Our jigsaw tables constantly change as children
express triumph at completing puzzles ranging from simple to more advanced as
some complete them with friends or on their own.
Early
exposure to math and number activities promote children's comfort with these
skills. Also, additional opportunities to practice these skills will increase
children’s confidence when working with math and number concepts. Late
afternoons we have introduced Number Jacks on the TV. Many parents are asking about
the link to this Program, so you can just type number jacks in google or
YouTube.
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Afternoon
Program Team
