Nina Marni beautiful little learners and their lovely families, Welcome to our weekly blog.
Learning Intention 1: To continue to develop children’s cutting and pasting skills using a range of natural and manmade materials.
Why
- Cutting and pasting activities for children in Early Learning have many benefits. For example, cutting and pasting can help the development of fine motor skills. They can cut images, shapes and drawings and paste them into various shapes
- Cutting and pasting activities can also be used as creative channels for children’s
self-expression.
- Cutting and pasting is an important first skill to master for children to then be able to design, ideate and successfully create artwork and objects.
- Cutting and pasting is a necessary skill for many school-based activities and will support school preparedness for children.
An intentional cutting and pasting table set up in the room everyday so support consistency, predictability and development of this skill
- Use of different types of scissors to support inclusion of all children
- Use of various types of joining materials such as; glue sticks, (with appropriate supervision), sticky tape, masking tape etc
- Use of collected natural materials from community walks
- Use of collected recyclable materials provided by staff and families
- Pattern making with shapes and different materials
- Discussion about aspects of visual art such as line, texture, shape and pattern
A week of exciting learning experiences with the use of scissors , natural resources ,man made materials , some glue , some paint a bit of glitter on a beautiful cavas and a masterpiece created by our little artists.
Learning Intention 2
Sacred symbols
Sacred symbols are special and important.
Why :
Doctrinal Insights from the Catholic Tradition that support this Enduring Understanding include:
- Sacred symbols remind us that God is close to us, and with us.
- In my Catholic learning environment, I can see many sacred symbols.
- Candle flames remind us that God is with us.
- The Bible reminds us of God’s love for us through special stories.
- The Cross reminds us of Jesus.
- Water is used for special blessings
- Sacred symbols are used in my school/ELC and in church celebrations, prayer and liturgy. (CCC1145)
- Other faith traditions also have sacred symbols.
Doctrinal Insights from the Catholic Tradition that support this Enduring Understanding include:
- Sacred symbols remind us that God is close to us, and with us.
- In my Catholic learning environment, I can see many sacred symbols.
- Candle flames remind us that God is with us.
- The Bible reminds us of God’s love for us through special stories.
- The Cross reminds us of Jesus.
- Water is used for special blessings
- Sacred symbols are used in my school/ELC and in church celebrations, prayer and liturgy. (CCC1145)
- Other faith traditions also have sacred symbols.
Sacred symbols remind us of our connection with god, with us, among us and throughout our learning environments. This week children used many symbols helping them to be guided into prayer.
Book Making – Literacy Intentions (Our hopes for their learning)
- Reading picture books regularly.
- Children will enjoy a joyful connection to picture books.
- Continue using mark-making tools, such as crayons, texter’s, pencils, paint, chalk, sand (as they create texts during this process).
- Children will build symbolic functioning, sharing something about the marks they have created.
- Bookmaking ongoing throughout the term
Children’s engagement in the writer’s workshop this week have been consistent throughout the week, glancing through picture books and Teacher’s reading to children ,where they have been engaged in being authors of their own stories.
Community visits around the Holy Family Catholic school and the daily routine flow chart in the learning space with flash cards have been ongoing and a consistent learning experience for the children this week where they have had a good understanding of what to expect next in their learning routine.
This week children have been taking care of their own learning space by providing our indoor foliage with much needed sips of water. Sustainability is a valued essence of our learning.
Some specs of gold for this week
Hope you all have a realxing weekend.