| Nina Marni to our preschoolers and their families and welcome to our first blog for term 4! |
Why?
Sensory processing is a foundational building block for learning. Our senses collect information from the world around us, as well as our interactions within it. This information is then processed in our brain, forming the basis of our learning, wellbeing and secure interactions with others. The brain and body need an abundance of sensory-motor experiences in the first years of life in order to strengthen this partnership and to provide children with lifelong sensory processing capabilities.
ILP’S: AT, AS, GZ, JL, LF, MM,WG, WG,SP.SU
This week being the first week back of our final term of 2024. We wanted to touch bases on areas of learning that are strong strategies for children who had a little break over the holidays and also for some of our new friends that have recently started with us in Early Learning. One of these strategies was self-regulation and how we can strengthen this quality through sensory and other areas of learning.
One of the most common activities for us here in preschool to use for moments where this may be needed is sensory. This planned out perfectly for us also as the weather was amazing and were able to do lots of water play in our outside learning environment and other sensory activities such as rice work and play playdough. Other areas of learning that have helped us to achieve our learning intention were physical play ( balancing and climbing)and community walks – this also helped us to understand our community and world around us. In which God created for us.
Literacy Intentions (our hopes for their learning)
General sound discrimination and rhyme awareness.
Matching Rhyming words orally.
Reading picture books regularly. Children will enjoy a joyful connection to picture books.
Continue using mark-making tools, such as crayons, texts, pencils, paint, chalk, sand (as they create texts during this process).
Children will build symbolic functioning, sharing something about the marks they have created.
ILP’s: All
For literacy this week. Rather the focusing on book making ( which we will start in week 3 ) we focused on mark making with different art medias and reading books in all our learning environments. This helped us to find our sense of belonging coming back from school holidays and also for us to use our artistic flow and motor skills. Using different art medias and textures also helps us to achieve our first intention, but also practicing or social skills and strengthening our emotional development ( working with others and taking turns).
Doing these types of literacy and art provocations although might not seem like it. Helps with the preschoolers language skills massively. Recognising colours, communicating with others, identifying key moments in books or characters. Using their memory recognising key points as little authors . These provocations also give all the children a sense of pride and confidence in showing us their finished products – that they all work really hard on to make it unique to their personality and style.
Some speck of gold moments for us this week – one of them being Mrs Hannah bringing her chickens in with her children for us to have a look in PS and give them a pat and feed. Some of us were even brave enough to hold them!!
We hope all our preschool friends had a fantastic first week back of term – we certainly did. We also hope you all have an amazing weekend and hope to see a few if not all of you at the spring fair this Sunday here at Holy Family starting at 11am.
Just some house keeping reminders also:
All children who attend here at Early Learning are required to have a sun safe hat, a water bottle and a few changes of clothes. If your child does not have the following you will be contacted to either bring the following objects or come collect your child.
Please bring some photos of your family in for PS family tree – this includes pets too!
We also ask that children please leave toys such as cars and stuffed animals at home
Nakata ( Goodbye in Kaurna)