Nina Marni everyone ! Welcome to our weekly blog 🙂
Children are continuing to settle into the merging of LDC4 and Preschool to create our new learning environment. We have utilised the LDC4 space as our new art space, where the children are able to access a range of art experiences independently and planned by our teachers. The children are able to engage in experiences such as painting, cutting and glueing, water colours, pastels, chalk drawing and much more.
This week our spotlight was to support children in developing and maintaining positive relationships with their peers and to restart insect inquiry with a focus on ants. We investigated ants I whole group and small group experiences. The children initiated their own investigations the yard as they went on missions to discover ants in the outdoor environment. The children observed that there are more than one species of ant in the outdoor environment based on their size and shape.Â
The children engaged in indoor experiences including connecting shapes. The children used the shapes to create many different creations, using their fine motor and cognitive skills. The children have also shown a keen interest in the magnetic mazes. The magnetic mazes allow the children to further develop their concentration, cognitive, hand eye coordination, language, numbers, colours and fine motor skills.
Children also engaged in fine motor and hand eye coordination activities when using scissors to cut paper into various shapes and glue it to create art work.
The home corner and engaging in pretend play was also an interest of the children.
The children further explored their interest in insects in the indoor environment through playing with the small world insect experience.
The children made play-dough with their teacher. They helped mix the ingredients together and learnt how to make play-dough.
The children also enjoyed the outdoor environment where they played in the newly placed sand and in the dinosaur garden.
Children enjoy playing the musical instruments, we practise sitting in a circle and following the same pattern.
The children have enjoyed continuing to create books in our book making station.
The children have enjoyed creating in our new art space.
The children went to the assembly in the school. They enjoyed learning about what the school children have been engaging with in their classrooms. The children did an amazing job listening, sitting and standing when they were asked to.
