GAP
Practical guidance, family resources and everyday moments connected to German-language early learning through GAP Playschool.
These posts help families understand the rhythm, routines, culture and community around early childhood learning at Spielwelt.
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Going on a Bear Hunt
Looking for some extra fun while you are walking in your neighborhood? Perhaps you and Oma and Opa would like to join in the fun while staying safe indoors, too. Pop a teddy bear (or a few of them) in your window, and walk around the neighbourhood in the coming days and see if you can…
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Setting Routines at home
Here are our tips for setting a routine at home, now that the family are working and schooling from home. * Set a routine schedule for the kids; it helps make things predictable for the children. * Communicate with your partner and share the workloads: one of you works (the paid work) while the other…
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We love the Arboretum.
We love the Arboretum so much, we have been a couple of times this year. We even helped launch their new network of trails and discovered there is more to the Arboretum than the fabulous acorn playground. We scrambled over big boulders and up the sides of steep hills, adventured into forests we hadn’t seen…
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The joys of volunteering
We really appreciate our volunteers at Spielwelt. Our parents (and of course the children) are what make our community so wonderful. While the organisation certainly benefits from volunteers, it would seem that the volunteers benefit themselves. For example: Each term, a parent volunteers to wash the hand towels for us. (We save trees and give…
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Haig Park Nature Playground
We absolutely adore the new nature playground that has been installed in Haig Park as part of the Haig Park Experiments. We really hope it is allowed to stay. Please urge the ACT government to let this amazing nature playground stay here in Haig Park. It’s awesome. And ask them to build more of these…
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German Story Night 2019
Story Night was another lovely event at Spielwelt this year. Children and their families enjoyed sharing delicious food for dinner, while chatting and playing in the playground. We then moved indoors for the main attraction: the songs and stories. Paul got us all singing “Meine Haende sind verschwunden”, with the actions of course, and accompanied…
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Twinkle toes artists
GAP children explored art with their feet, painting, shaping play dough and sharing lots of playful conversation.
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A Fair Chomp
Some of the children at the GAP joined their teacher Lisa-Marie starring in an ActSmart video to share one of our tips about being green. By replacing our old bar heaters for more efficient reverse cycle heaters, we have reduced our carbon footprint and now save ourselves over $1000 a year. As our young GAP…
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Our Solar Panels are on
Some say the Turner Scout Hall is a power house of energy and sunshine! That’s all the more true since our solar panels went on today. The children at the GAP sang a traditional German children’s song about busy tradespeople (Wer will fleissige Handwerker sehen? (sing along if you wish)) while the installers Carn and…
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Frozen Rainbows
In Lisa-Marie’s latest lesson about colours and colour-mixing, the children had a great time painting with blocks of frozen paint. As the little blocks melted, we could paint and mix more and more colours into our works of art. It was really fascinating and lots of fun! A special guest to the GAP went through…