Eunice attends Katrina Pre-school and she loves her kinder. She talks about her kinder all the time - things that she did with her friends and teachers, activities/art/science that they did, things that they talked about, etc. Her kinder is just down the road on the same street from our house - maybe 5 houses away. We walked her to kinder most of the time since it's so near. It'll be silly for me to drive. :)
So, it was Melbourne Cup Day public holiday (after 5 months since the last holiday!!!! @_@) on Tuesday and my office decided to close on Monday so everyone has long weekend. Since I was not working, EG suggested me to sit in Eunice's kinder for half a session just to see what our beloved daughter is doing in her kinder - which I happily obliged. I brought Natalie along - yea, they allow that. She just roamed around and played with the activities on the activity tables, and sometimes joined in Eunice's friends - oh those pre-schoolers, they love small little child like Natalie. :)
It was a pretty good experience. We went in around 8.30am and they played by themselves all the way till 10am (I was actually bored - and kept asking Eunice when will the group time be...). Most of the children were not there (due to the long weekend), and there were only 10 of them in the class. So it's not as noisy as it usually is.
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| She made a snail - can you see it? :) |
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| Posing with Alyssa at the play dough table |
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| This corner has new activity table every term. This term it's a light box table. My little Natalie is enjoying it lots :). |
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| The teachers put on the art smocks for the girls and let the sisters paint together :) |
Can you see what Eunice made? She told me she's going to make a dog and I didn't know how she's going to do it (zero-creativity mum!). So, she took a tissue box as the dog's body, 4 small cupcake wrappers as its legs, 3 straws - 2 for ears, 1 for tail. And she drew a circle on the black paper, and cut it out herself (yes! by herself!), and she told me she's going to give him 2 eyes and a star nose by sticking the glitters, and she drew the dog's mouth showing teeth. :).. Amazing! So proud of her. Even the kinder teacher was amazed and put it on the display shelf to show everyone. :)
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| Writing her name on the dog.. |
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| Oh I love this - the sisters drawing or writing together :) |
Natalie is never a shy girl (not for now), and she's busy entertaining herself in the kinder too. She loves this corner. See the note pad next to her? She asked me, "Ok, so.. now... what you want?".. and I just simply answered something, she'd type on the keyboard, and the turn to scribble the note pad. How cute. :)
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| My little girl had fun too |
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| Puzzle corner |
I was pretty amazed with the paint activity below. The teacher got the children to choose a color, and she poured some paint from a big bottle (like a juice bottle) onto the table. Then, the children will smear the paint with their hands (just like the pic), and then the teacher will pour another color in and let them mix it to see how the color changes. They asked the children to draw something using their finger tips, and they will then put a piece of paper over it to print it onto the paper, and next, put to the drying rack to dry up.
After this is done, one of the teachers will help to clean up the children by washing their hands at the basin, dry the hands, take out the smock carefully so it doesn't dirty the child's shirt, while another teacher will use a sponge to clean up the table for the next child to play the same thing. Repeat the same process for 10 times (10 children)!.
I really really have to salute their patience for the children. I probably will give up after 2 times. And I'll never let my kids do this at home. :P..
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| Fun time for the kids, really! |
And finally, at 10am, the teachers turned on some music and all the children said - Oh, it's PACK UP time. Everyone started to pack up (very good training!). And after that, it's the group time that I've been waiting for the whole morning! I just love to see children sitting down quietly listening to the teacher - looking at their attentive faces. :)
So it's dancing time. Teacher Carmel turned on a song, she called it, "Freezing song". Very cute. Obviously it's not the first time the children danced this song as they already know what to expect but it's still very cute. :)
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| Group time - Dancing |
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| Natalie joined - very reluctantly :) |
The children just looked so cute - I couldn't resist and took a video of them. :)
And I left after this - it was near 11am and Natalie was already complaining that she's hungry. After 2.5 hours at 1pm, I came back again to pick Eunice. And she cycled home. Oh, she actually asked for bicycle to cycle to her kinder that morning and we parked her bicycle in the kinder.
She's grown so big now. I have another real bicycle that I picked up 2nd hand, waiting for her daddy to do it up nicely for her to cycle. :)
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| Cycling home... |
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| A new sun hat that we bought for her to protect her face :) |
I really love Eunice's kinder. So, I decided to register Natalie to this kinder for her 3yo and 4yo in 2016 and 2017. Hopefully by then we can still sort out our work schedule to fit into her schooling schedule. :)
