A very HOT week to start kinder.

With a large group (for Ouyen) and a number of children new to the district and new to a group learning environment, combined with the heat, we offered lots of sensory activities which you can do on your own – soothing and engaging- or with other children who you are getting to know. Some cooperation and sharing is needed but children can play alongside each other as well. (Physical, emotional and social wellbeing are so closely linked.

Water in the pond, in marble scooping, in spray painting, in sponge target throwing, in the trough, in washing, in the “cooking”,  in the sandpits…… and in the drink bottles ( we didn’t need to remind anyone to drink plenty of water!).

All children could share or be solitary while investigating and participating. Some who played on their own on Monday were already teaming up with others by Thursday.