It’s week five already? Wow! This week we made use of the beautiful weather outside and really enjoyed natural materials. We spent our mornings out in the sunshine in the courtyard eating breakfast, discussing where we’d like to travel and playing with our friends.  Some of our favourite activities have been creating realistic scenarios with our nature table and noughts and crosses.  Staff built upon our students’ interests of the nature table by making a clean sand box.  Students used the animals, natural resources such as small wooden stumps, pine cones and even some branches that have fallen off trees in our garden to create a natural landscape. What the students created from these natural materials blew our minds.

A picture speaks a thousand words, but we wish you could have heard the discussions the students were having too. They talked about the importance of having shade, water for sea animals and food so the animals could survive. Our students also used the sand as an art and craft activity.  They painted Indigenous symbols using a glue stick before dipping the paper into the sand so it would stick. We will hang these in OSHC room and would love for you to take a peek.