Preschoolers enjoy exploring Nursery Rhymes
Parents remember learning Nursery Rhymes when they were young with their mums and dads and now they find themselves doing the same with their children… The Preschoolers have had a marvellous week...
View ArticleHeritage Week: T.C.I. Colours…Do You Know Your Island Colours?
At the start of our Early Years National Heritage Week celebrations, the preschoolers faces’ lit up as they entered the door seeing rays of colourful scarves hanging up in their classroom. Some said,...
View ArticlePreschool – Three Little Pigs
Learning about the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’, has lead the Preschoolers into an array of activities involving retelling the story; exploring buildings and building materials; and sorting and...
View ArticlePreschool are developing a love of books from an early age
Here are some photos of our Preschool children enjoying World Book Day. See them dressed up as nursery rhyme characters, choosing books at our Book Swap and enjoying reading them in different places –...
View ArticleA Celebration of Colours and Thanks
The Preschoolers have been learning about colours and how they see them in their everyday environment. We initially focused on the colours of autumn leading up to the Thanksgiving Holiday and our own...
View ArticleOur Preschoolers are ‘Amazing’
The preschoolers are on an adventure exploring their ‘true self-identity’ in our ‘Amazing Me’ topic. The children are loving learning about themselves and their peers. This theme promotes children’s...
View ArticleLending Helping Hands in My Community
The Preschoolers have been thrilled to learn about the role of people who help in our community. They were excited to get dressed up in the community helpers’ outfits and role play, imagining the...
View ArticleParent, Student and Teacher Connections in the Early Years
The parent is often referred to in such terms as “the child’s first teacher” (Educate America Act of 1994) or “the one continuous force in the education of … children from birth to adulthood” (Berger,...
View ArticleWe’re on The Move T.C.I…Let Move!
With memories of the summer holidays still fresh in the Preschool children’s heads, we have spent the first few weeks of term talking about the places and people they visited and how they got there –...
View ArticleVehicles that help in the Community
The Preschoolers were very excited as the reality of listening to stories, role-playing, singing songs about different forms of transportation came to life when the fire truck and the ambulance came to...
View ArticleWhen the Pilgrims came to school
The children had lovely week during the Thanksgiving holiday period. They listened to stories of the Pilgrims and how they travelled to a new world. In best way they could, the children described...
View ArticleIncredible Me…that’s who I am
When I look in the mirror, Who do I see? Only my face smiling back at me. By: Myrna Pereira (2019) Our topic focused on the children learning all about themselves. Using ‘Mat Man’ as a springboard,...
View ArticleA teachable moment that just couldn’t be missed
“It took one seed to make a difference” The Preschoolers are learning all about plants. One morning as the children ventured out for outside play, they were curious to find lots of brown leaves on the...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just Play, It’s LEARNING For Life
‘Play’ is the work of a child. Over my many years of teaching and working with young children, I know it to be a given fact that play supports learning and is a very important to a child’s development...
View ArticlePreschoolers experience travel by horse
Through a wide variety of activities this term, the Early Years children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about how we travel by land, air or sea, and even into space! The Preschool children were...
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