March 17th 2017

We’ve had lots of variety over the last couple of weeks, from hair salons to creating intricate mazes.

We have seen more children enjoying time in the playground while the weather has been fine. We are always pleased to see children swapping skills. We have seen people teaching others how to do stunts while jumping off the playground and landing in different ways to different twists and turns on the monkey bars.

Paper planes are back in vogue. We have tried out many designs and tested a lot to see which works best. We have compared these to some toy men with parachutes. It is interesting to see how the kids make guesses about why things work better than others. We have found the best place to throw from is the SAC balcony.

We have spent more time on the ripstick this week. There is lots of improvement, from just learning to balance to being able to navigate around objects and people! This has been leading up to a wheels day during vacation care.

One evening we took it easy and just had a hair salon. This was a great opportunity to take it slow and chat about everything under the sun. We are all probably familiar with how hair dressers seem to have us talking about anything and everything while they cut our hair. Here are some of the pictures.

We’ve had lots of variety over the last couple of weeks, from hair salons to creating intricate mazes.

We apologise for the lack of posts, our writer has been away doing her professional placement.
Our next post will have the vacation care program!

See you in OSHC! J

March 3rd 2017

We have had a big ‘making’ week this week. We have baked, constructed buildings from pop sticks, built waffle block houses and sewn toys.

We have set a challenge this week to build a tower that is at least 30cm tall and can hold 1kg of weight. The children can only use skewers, pop sticks, pegs and masking tape. So far every is designing slowly and trialling different techniques. This has been a great chance for everyone to develop their problem solving and teamwork skills when working in groups.

While everyone has avoided the outdoors and the heat, some have relished the air con and developed different skills indoors.  Sewing has become popular again for some people, with one student producing a felt gnome.

We have been enjoying watching some David Attenborough documentaries in the last couple of weeks. Although the picture quality is not as good as what we are used to, the sense of adventure and wonder is still engaging from Sir Attenborough. We were even lucky to find a baby blue-tongue lizard during our hot weather! Not fluffy and cuddly, but still adorable.

In our kitchen we baked banana cup-cakes and apple and cinnamon cupcakes on Wednesday. On Thursday we ditched the cooking because of the heat and made chocolate crackles instead.  The groups were challenged to do as much as they could on their own. They had to rely on their reading and comprehension skills to cook.

Our Vacation Care program is being developed as we speak. If there are dates that you know you will definitely need, you can always let us know ahead of time.