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We are currently exploring Pesach with our children at RLH, and Morah Rachel has created an engaging STEM activity involving colour-changing water! A tuff tray was set up with wet sand and plants to mimic the banks of the River Nile. Morah Rachel poured in blue mayim (water) dyed naturally using cabbage, and the children splashed and moved the water around. They then took clear vinegar and poured it into the tray and were amazed when the blue water turned red-pink! As the children played, Morah Rachel talked about the kachol (blue) river and how Moshe turned it adom (red). The cabbage water reacts with colour changes when exposed to a basic or acidic substance. Adding vinegar shows that it is an acid as it turns red. Adding baking soda moves our water back to blue and eventually turns it a green colour. The children continued exploring the red-pink water. They splashed and giggled together, using the water to move the sand around the tray. One child was interested in scooping up the sand in his palms and pouring it into the plants. The children with Morah Rachel also explored moving the sand around, creating mountains and exploring water erosion through sensory play.
Amazing activity 💙💙
Cool experience idea thanks for sharing!
We are proud to announce Miss Kelli, our Superstar Educational Leader, has been announced as one of three finalists for the Excellence in Early Childhood Education and Care Leadership award.
childaustralia.org.au/2024-ecld-sector-awards-finalists/
We hope you will all join us in congratulating Miss Kelli on all her achievements and this prestigious nomination.
Congratulations Miss Kelli, we are very proud of you and are thankful for all the behind-the-scenes work you do.
Congratulations Miss Kelli. You deserve it and we are proud of you 👍
You do an incredible job here at RLH Miss Kelli, your passion and commitment to supporting every child and Educator shines through every single day! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Congratulations Miss Kelli 👏 ❤️
Congratulations Kelli Gander you deserve it
Fantastic news! Congratulations, Miss Kelli!❤️
Some of the play experiences in our Kindy 3 today
Miss Aileen writes "As we love our train set, we continued to explore with it. Mr. Ajay was there to guide and help us build, create, and connect the tracks together. As a team, we worked together and helped each other connect the train tracks. We were able to connect most of it and created a nice long track for our trains and little cars to go around and zoom around.
I had some colourful sensory ice for us to explore which helped us cool down a little on this lovely warm Thursday. We got to further develop our colour recognition, explore our sense of touch by feeling the ice, with discussions around it being smooth, hard and cold to the touch. We added crepe paper in to the ice which gave it the colour. It’s sooo cool.
As we have been super interested in transportation, Miss Dani with the children has been building this amazing bus out of recycled empty boxes. We got to paint it today with yellow paint. How fun it was to do it with our friends. Taking turns, sharing the paint roller and just working very nicely together as a team. We can’t wait for this bus to be all finished so we can then play and enjoy it"
We are exhausted from all of this engaging and stimulating activities we did today.
We had so much fun learning and playing with our peers.
Exploring Purim
"Morah Rachel created a huge tower of cardboard boxes in our Explorers room. They have been used to build castles together, creating archways the Explorers can crawl through and big towers they can knock down. We see the Explorers using all their strength to stack, push, and pull the boxes around, laughing their heads off as they do".
Morah Rachel “We have been doing lots of exploring colours and sounds. It has been super hot and we have used rainbow ice with interesting objects like toy cars, blocks, feathers, and glitter trapped inside to engage the children in colour exploration. We talk about the colours in Hebrew and what we can see in the ice. Sagol (purple) is a favourite colour to play with. We made rainbow playdough and used all the beautiful colours to make hamantaschen. Playdough is a great way for us to practice rolling out the dough, putting filling in, and pinching the edges together to make a triangle shape”.
“Our Nursery babies explored a basket of different objects that made fun sounds. There were brass bells, shakers with water or recycled material, tambourines, coin belts, and xylophones. We have also been exploring the story of Purim through storybooks and felt board stories, with the babies enjoying sitting with Morah Rachel to listen and see the pictures”.
