Nina Marni little learners and their beautiful families. Welcome to our weekly blog.
| Learning Intention: 1 Learning Intention: To support children’s engagement, development and self-regulation through strengthening their sensory processing capabilities. 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 to strengthen this partnership and to provide children with lifelong sensory processing capabilities. |
“Using your own senses help children of all age groups , with six different ways to learn about the world around them. Using this multi-sensory approach helps the brain to create strong and lasting nerve connections as it develops and grows.”
Providing children with a deep sense of knowledge of collaborative sensory learning experiences, inhabits their abilities of a sequence of invitational play and being present and in tune with the children throughout this wonderful learning experience. This week children have been responsive and have presented delight and surprise when the learning begins and it ends. These sensory learnings enlighten our children’s imagination and ignite their senses of sight, touch and smell. Transferring , pouring and scooping are some other learning skills which children develop through this amazing learning of sensory processing.
We explored some mark making using paint and brushes, an extension into a flow of sensory.
“A sensory circle is a great way to explore different textures while building listening skills and verbal communication.”
Making play dough has been an exciting learning experience which has been quite consistent throughout this week within our learning space.
The child’s voice is captured in this learning experience.
Imogen : Its stretchy , Ellie : its squishy , Eliyas : It’s soft and stretchy, Jayzell : its soft and pink, Hazel : Its pink
The children picked their own colours to add into their special bowls of play dough and mixed the dough until the textures were just right for their play.
Continuing to further explore using our senses, children this week engaged in making some wonderful potions outdoors. Some of our beautiful little learners called it a big concoction (a mixture of a variety of ingredients.). “Sensory outbursts with a dash of rainbow colours”.
Searching for numbers, A sensory invitation of finding the object , picking up the object, and visualising it. Children have begun to gradually learn their number counting skills in a mix of a sensory exploration.
| Learning Intention 2: 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 blessingsSacred symbols are used in my school/ELC and in church celebrations, prayer and liturgy. (CCC1145)Other faith traditions also have sacred symbols The Sign of the Cross is a prayer to God.Doctrinal and Content Elaborations: Doctrinal Insights from the Catholic Tradition that support this Enduring Understanding include:The Sign of the Cross is a prayer with actions and words.The words remind us that God is called Father, Son and Holy Spirit.The actions represent the symbol of the Cross, and that prayer involves our head, heart and body. |
This week we enter into the third week of lent. Children have been gathering for their morning prayer with flowers and the candle to begin and end their prayer. Children have been very engaged in the five finger prayer song and now they are able to sing along to the music using lots of verbal communication to praise and thank Jesus.
Easter activities have been continuing in the learning space where children have been interactive with ideas and creative imaginations.
Taking responsibility over our own health, being sun smart and protecting our skin. Children have been great helpers helping one another with their sunscreen, and taking responsibility over their learning spaces with helping pack away and clean up after their learning.
Community walks to the play ground this week have been interactive and engaging helping children exercise their physical capabilities with extending and building friendships.
Buckets are overflowing with specks of gold for this week.
Ngaityalya.
Hope you all stay safe and enjoy a relaxing weekend.