Thursday 20 June 2019

A happy heart

Three children asked me to cut a big paper heart one by one at free playtime the other day.

10 min later, they showed me their creations.



"Naomi, this is a card. This is a happy heart card. "
"And look inside, there is a grumpy angry heart under... it is hiding."

"Sometimes we are a grumpy heart, but after I play with friends, my friends made a happy heart."

"Now this girl is super happy!"


The happiness of this realization about friendship shows.

I feel so gifted to work with our children. I love them.









Monday 10 June 2019

A Fire Drill


Last Tuesday, during our rest time, suddenly a fire light blinked in CM.

I was with 8 children at quiet space and some of children at big room were sleeping.

Two children noticed something happening.

Each teacher told the children to go outside quick and quietly.


A few mins later, all the children were able to move by the fence which is the meeting place for evacuation.


The big school's teacher told us it was a monthly fire drill.

We talked about why it was important to practice these things to help keep us all safe.


Once a month, we do " Fire Drill" for practicing.
We follow the procedures found in our Fire Safety Policy book.

It was important for the teachers at CM to have this drill come as a surprise because it helps us all know how to act in something unplanned.

Regular fire drill is normally we planned it before that mean teachers wouldn't panic.
But this time, the teachers were not sure what's happened.

The teachers were calm and gently talked with the children.

We needed to wake some children up, because we were in middle of rest time. But they were all calm and quietly to followed our guidance.



These pictures taken after we knew it was a fire drill.

We all proud of our children, they did very very well.





Making a board game

Last month at the group time, the children explored toys from times past.


The children made a board game.

The children came up with many fun ideas for the squares of the board.
They showed the movement and explained to me about their ideas.



" How about Say hi to Naomi?"
" How about we do a big jump?" 
" Sing a song happy birthday"
" Make a funny face"
" Stomp like big elephant"
" Roar !!! "
" Crawl like a baby"
" Hop like bunny!!"




 
 
The benefits of board game are many.

Taking turns,
being a graceful winner or loser
problem solving
Teamwork,

Many of the toys of the past are still valuable today.

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