Safari Baby & Toddler Academy

19/02/2025

19/02/2025

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉 Marie Jacobs, Alyssa Kirby, Hope Mabasa Hlungwani

19/02/2025

Our little Zebra's 1 to 2 years enjoy their paint session.
*builds hand eye coordniation
*develops mobility skills
*regulates emotions
*encourages communicating our emotions.

19/02/2025

2 to 3 year old class
Hippo class

5 Benefits of Dress-Up and Pretend Play

*Boost early brain development. ...
*Improves early cognitive development. ...
*Enhance children's social-emotional development. ...
*Promote children's language and literacy development. ...
*Strengthen children's physical development.

19/02/2025

Bilateral coordination
Using both sides of your body at the time - building on hand function and fine motor skills. Crossing our midline.
Grade R - Giraffe Class

19/02/2025

From Babies to children aged 4 turning 5.
Learning through play is building a strong foundation. Don't be tempted to skip a few steps... This will create cracks later on in your child's schooling career.

19/02/2025

Grade R
Letter of the week Mm
Munching Mike says.... Mmmmmm
*Learning the beginning sounds of items that start with m.
*Creating the letter m with play dough, pegs, blocks.
*identifying pictures that start with the letter m and the identifying the actual letter and placing a peg on the correct letter.

19/02/2025

Topic or Theme of the week: My Home.
Onderwerp of Tema van die week:
My Huis

14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day! / Gelukkige Valentynsdag Dag!

Love is in the Air♥️♥️♥️

Our Valentines Grandparents enjoyed a lovely puppet show with their grandchildren.
We surprised them with a valentines flower and donut.

12/02/2025

Grade R - Giraffe Class
- building fine motor skill
- hand function
- Bilateral Integration - using both sides of our bodies at the same time.

11/02/2025

Hippo Class - 2 to 3 years
Play dough fun
*building fine motor skills
*self regulation strategy
*bilateral coordination - using both sides of our bodies at the same time.

11/02/2025

Monkey class - Grade RR
*Patterns help children understand change and that things happen over time.
*Patterning supports the foundations for recall of the counting sequence and understanding number operations.
*Learning about patterns and connections will help children to make their own predictions and form logical connections.
*It's an important foundation for later mathematical thinking and reasoning.

11/02/2025

Topic/ theme of the week: My Family.
Omderwerp/Tema van die week: My Familie

04/02/2025

Fine Motor and Patterning - threading
-Develops hand eye coordination
Helps distinguish dexterity.
-Develops grasp
-Identify colours
-Determining what must come next.