It’s November! That time of year when that holiday feeling is just around the corner. It’s been quite a busy and interesting month, packed with lots of fun activities. Here’s a glimpse into some of the things we’ve been up to this past month… Moana month! A number of children in my group have been very much into Disney’s Moana lately. I decided to extend on this current interest of theirs and we ended having quite a Moana month. We made… ‘Heart of Te Fiti’ necklaces with salt dough; Shiny paper plate ‘ Tamatoa ’ crabs, which tied in perfectly with Eric Carle’s book ‘ A House for Hermit Crab ’; Funny ‘ Hei Hei ’ chickens from paper roll tubes; Fierce ‘ Kakamora ’ paper plate masks, which I used as a lead in to talk about managing angry feelings together with this book . I also extended on the sea turtle scene from Moana to do a little featurette on turtles. We learnt a new turtle song and I told them the classic Aesop’s fable of the turtle/tortoise and the hare, then we made some turt...

It’s about time to turn back the spotlight on my baby girl . I just realised I have only a couple of months left before she shoots off eagerly to school next year. Of course I’ll still have her home with me on her non-kindy days, but it somehow feels like the beginning of the end of another era. A beginning to yet another stage of that continued striving for independence out of my arms. For now, her strings, though they are beginning to stretch out, are still knotted tightly to mine. Here are a few funny anecdotes and conversations we’ve had lately… Grace had been reprimanded (quite mildly actually) by her daddy one afternoon for  some infraction. She’s an expert at turning on instant waterworks in cases like this. Immediately afterwards she hopped up to me and asked sweetly “Mummy, please can I have a lolly to sweeten my tears?” . One night during one of our usual bedtime talks, Grace was trying to string our talk out for as long as possible. I usually set a quota of how many topi...