Children love to do BIG things – this week we have had a couple of different opportunities for BIG activities.
Getting ready for the Vanilla Slice Day, a local day to get together and have fun, the children painted a cardboard castle – it’ll go up in our window to help decorate our kinder to celebrate VSD, and then we will have it to play kings and queens – a very eager request from some of the children.
Working on a group project helps to build a sense of belonging and of group cohesiveness, and there’s a sense of excitment that is generated by group action.
and then there’s parachute play….excitement plus!
The educator in us can see ways to reinforce concepts of positon, space, force and so on….but the child in us just loves to have fun!
So simple – and if you get them to help chant some words or sing a rhyme as you all make the parachute move, there isn’t (quite) as much screaming…..