Outdoor classroom day every Thursday
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The outdoor classroom is part of Oakdene’s drive to continue proving young children with sensory
experiences. It comes with much anticipation from the teacher and filters down to the children.
Children and teachers make joint decisions to play, read stories, create and enjoy music and
movement outdoors. This is part of a global initiative to take learning outdoors.
OAKDENE
CURRO
CASTLE
SITARI
‘Farming’ in the city
Andriëtte van Zyl
Under the sea
From left: Keirissa Elbourne, Minenhle Mbambo From left: Rendani Guduni
and Maddison Scott
and Kershaan Nike
Fortuna Ashamo
The
CURRO Group1s
CASTLE love
SANDOWN reading
Group 1 teacher, Chantal Marcus, has a fond-
ness for reading and she loves to read to the
babies. When the weather is pleasant, she
moves them outside and this is where they
‘read’. One might think they don’t understand
the story, but Chantal says it is surprising how
many reactions she gets from the babies when
she reads the stories. Their captivated expres-
sions and giggles show much enthusiasm as the
stories unfold.
Ewan Laurie
Chantal Marcus (teacher) and Samela Mankebe (assistant) reading to
Brayden Kammies, Xan Vickers, Munei Thandavhathu and Dhiya Govender.
THATCHFIELD
SECUNDA
Sensory play is as important to a
child’s development as learning
to count or reciting their ABCs.
Sensory activities facilitate ex-
ploration and naturally encour-
age children to use scientific
processes while they play, cre-
ate, investigate and explore.
This includes any activity that
stimulates a young child’s senses
– touch, smell, taste, movement,
balance, sight and hearing.
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Claire Cronin
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CASTLE
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Sensory play
Stars at Curro Castle Sitari had a very exciting time. One of
their themes was ‘farm animals and farm products’, which
was discussed in class on a daily basis. Children enjoyed
making farm animal crafts, listening to farm stories and even
identifying animal sounds played in class. Stars had the op-
portunity to spend some time with all kinds of farm animals
when they visited the school. They had a chance to hold
them, feed them and even brush some of them. The stars
particularly enjoyed feeding carrots and lettuce to the rabbits
and guinea pigs while watching the geese, chickens, goat
and sheep stroll around. This was a great experience.
Sensory play is fun.
Elri Wittstock (Group 2) enjoying
sensory play with coloured wool.
Tarien Brand (Group 2) with
her hands in a paint bowl.
Markus Steenkamp
A dentist is not scary after all
On Thursday, 7 June 2018, as the children arrived at school, a dentist’s chair awaited them. A
dentist’s chair, wait, that is not a good surprise and rather frightening!
But, before the fear could properly set in the children were greeted by Snuggle Bum and learnt all
about how fun dentist visits could be.
Snuggle Bum introduced everyone to
three aliens, Jinktebites, Painosaurus
and Decay. The children helped the
friendly dentist to find them and learnt
about how healthy foods chased them
away.
Together with Snuggle Bum, the children
chose healthy foods and learnt a new
way of brushing their teeth – they now
have a fun song to sing while brushing!
Learning while playing.
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Sensory play with jelly.
Each child received a book,
crayons and some tooth-
paste.
The Group 1s learn about teeth.
From left: Charity Makowa (teacher), Rene Withney (owner of
Sprouting Teeth), Ben Kloppers, Hunter Cowley and Keeya Senoge
Thanks to Snuggle Bum and the friendly
dentist, the children now have fun
brushing their teeth and are not afraid
of the dentist’s chair any longer.
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