Peekaboo is a classic favorite that is good for more than a smile and a laugh. Hiding and finding you over and over again helps to illustrate object permanence. This concept helps the Tiny Tigers learn that they are there for them even when they can not see you. That is the kind of reassurance they need to foster their emerging independence.

Dear Parents,

We have had a very exciting two weeks.  On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 we had a very special day – our first experience of leaving the Happy Kids sight, we hopped on  the bus and had our first go at Rolli-Polli. This is an amazing  fun  soft play area, specially designed for children to develop motor skills through great activities including, climbing, balancing and jumping. It was an amazing first experience for all and the Tiny Tigers did wonderfully listening to their teachers on the bus and enjoyed Rolli-Polli very much.

14 October 2019 was the National School’s Fire Safety Day, when we learned about fire prevention, how we can watch out for each other and what number to call in need of help. We also experienced a fire drill practice to help us calmly familiarise the role during an emergency and get accustomed to the process.

We would like to kindly remind you that we are having our Halloween Party on the 31 October 2019, please dress children in costumes.

We hope you all have a great Autumn holiday full of fun, can’t wait to see everyone on the 28 October 2019!

There is nothing like the freedom and joy we see when your children are bouncing, swinging and dancing to the music. Exploring movement in an environment without rules, evaluation, and judgement fosters self-confidence, and develops physical coordination and strength.  The song ‘Shake Your Hands’  has two distinct parts-one part with a verse about shaking hands and one part where there are no words, but we are prompted to ‘dance, dance’. This is a repeated predictable pattern, and as each section ends and next begins, the children are prompted to stop and change movements to go along with the song.

The Tiny Tigers experienced sculpture painting and exercised their little hands and eyes. They also made grapes and scarecrows for our Harvest Festival. Good job Tigers!

In the past weeks, we learned to sound more letters of the Jolly Phonics programme, we all now know the sounds: ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’ and the related songs and jingles. In the mornings, during Individual Development, we have also been working on our fine motor skills and pencil grips, doing lots of tracing work and different types of crafts.
We were very lucky to enjoy pony-riding in the beautiful sunny weather on the last day of September. The children were very excited and enthusiastic, some riding and some petting the ponies, we learned about safety during riding and also talked about how to care for horses. Overall, our group had a fantastic time outside with the ponies and we are already excited about their next visit.
The Harvest Festival was great fun, our class prepared coconut-balls and sang two songs for the Harvest Assembly. They did a fantastic job of singing and dancing to our songs. Later that day, we enjoyed a Puppet Theatre show which the Tiny Tigers really loved.
Next week Wednesday will be our first Rolli-Polli session outside of Happy Kids, we are looking forward to it very much.

A sense of community and belongings to a group is central to child’s social and emotional development. Music and singing are powerful ways of experiencing being together in the Tiny Tigers.

Dear Tiny Tigers Parents,

Thank you for your co-operation and support with the  settling  in  process. We had a very busy September with lots of fun activities. The  first  three weeks of September were full of joy and 

excitement, exploring   our  new   environment,   getting used  to  our  new  daily-routine  and helping our new Tiny Tiger friends to settle in.  We are  very  happy  to  have such a wonderful and smiley class.

We have started looking into our Unit of Inquiry,  ’Who we are: Home’. We have been reading stories about different homes and have also created our own home from shapes.  In the  mornings  the  children  worked  individually with the teachers at different stations– doing Maths, Jolly Phonics, practicing pre-writing skills and doing arts and crafts.

The Jolly Phonics programme was introduced during centre times,  and  we  began  learning  the  first sound of set 1 – sound ”S”. We will be continuing the programme with an additional sound per week.  The Tiny Tigers really enjoyed learning their first sound through a fun story, song and jingle.

Our specialist classes have also begun just as our first Afternoon Activities. The children always look forward to them with great excitement and motivation.  We can’t wait to meet the ponies on Monday!

The last stream of warm summer wind knocked on all of our teacher’s door and whispered into their ears that it is time to go back to Happy Kids to start the new school year. Our new Visual Arts teacher, Ms. Ildikó was very excited to meet with all the children and do some arts and crafts with them.

The Tiny Tigers played with modelling clay and cooked spaghetti pasta. They created lots of funny creations. Wow!

We hope you have had a lovely and relaxing summer. We were very excited to meet our former and new Tiny Tigers in the beginning of September. It was great to see how our little Cuddly Koalas were overjoyed to meet their old and new friends as having grown into the Tiny Tigers class this year. It is very nice to see all the children settling in and getting used to our routines with big smiles on their faces.