We have had a wonderful week of fun, adventure, curiosity, friendship and learning.
PLAYGROUND
We moved our bodies and had lots of fun on the playground.
MUSIC AND DANCE
We love to move, dance and sing! This week we have been exploring movement to music through games and improvisation. The children loved playing musical statues, singing nursery rhymes, playing musical chairs and moving like different animals to the music.
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- Ambrose is a bird
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- Ellara and Shruti are rabbits
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- Xavier is a T-Rex
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- Xavier is a dinosaur
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- Shruti is a kangaroo
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- Omelia is a penguin
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- Elephants!
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- Musical chairs
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- Musical chairs
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- Playing musical statues
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- Musical statues
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- Musical statues
PAINTING, DRAWING AND EXPRESSION
Children share lots about their experiences, understandings and interests through drawing, painting and expression. They communicate their understanding of the world and their curiosities. Educators use this knowledge to plan and program provocations that will engage children and contribute to their development as learners and citizens.
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- Simon enjoys painting
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- Simon is using different colours
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- Simon is painting his dad
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- Hani is learning to write her name
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- Hani knows the letters in her name
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- Frankie is painting a bird’s nest “birdy’s eat the worm and fly”
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- Liam is drawing a self portrait.
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- Liam explored different expressions in the mirror.
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- Liam is happy
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- Liam is sad.
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- Liam is excited
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- Liam is surprised
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- Liam is worried
SEEDS
Brianna has been saving seeds from different vegetables when cooking. We used our senses to learn more about pumpkin and capsicum seeds. The ELC is contributing to the Spring Fair which will be held at the school in October. We are going to grow some plants to sell at the Spring Fair. We had a discussion about what we should grow and in the end decided on carrots, flowers and strawberries.
SPECKS OF GOLD
Each afternoon, we share our specks of gold. These are the best things about our day. This helps to build an ‘attitude of gratitude’ and a positive mindset.
MINDFULNESS AND PRAYER
During prayer, we have continued to learn the sign of the cross. We have read stories from the bible and prayers from ‘Pray with Me’. We have shared our own prayers of gratitude and sung songs.
In mindfulness, we have continued to practice our ‘rainbow breathing’ and relaxation.
FRIENDSHIP
It is so heart warming to see the many relationships and friendships that are being established between children, thus developing strong emotional and social wellbeing.
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- Ellara and Frankie
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- Smiles
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- Laughter
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- Humour
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- Sharing
COUNTING
Children have been exploring number to 10 this week, including:
- recognising numbers
- ordering numbers
- counting collections of objects
- matching numerals to collections of objects
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- Will is matching the number stone to the number card
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- Will recognises written numbers
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- Will is ordering the numbers
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- Will is able to count to 30
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- Will is proud of his counting
Thanks for sharing our learning with us. Please leave a comment for your child if you wish. Happy weekend and we look forward to next week’s learning and wonder.