Nina Marni to all our wonderful little learners and their beautiful families. Welcome to our school holidays blog.
As the school holiday break comes to an end our little learners paid tribute and honoured our veterans with creating a special Anzac Day poster. Anzac Day which is on the 25th of April is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand commemorating the first major military action of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps(ANZAC) during world war 1, which landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915.
Children had a very special visitor visit them just before easter. Zola the bunny who is a close friend of the Easter bunny visited Early Learning providing children with lots of opportunities to learn on how to care for all of god’s living beings and to enjoy some bunny snuggles. The children were fascinated and were very empathetic and caring towards the bunny making sure it had its nutrition for the day feeding it lots of carrots and lettuce.
Easter bunny cookies were baked specially for the children by our chef which required some decoration. Children decorated their Easter bunny cookies with lots of enthusiasm and concentration.
Learning Intention: 1
To support children’s expression of ideas through our outside environment with the support of mark-making and collaborative art experiences and natural resources from our community.
Why:
- Mark making simply refers to the creation of different patterns, lines, textures and shapes.
- Mark-making is not just about early writing; it is a sensory and physical experience which can be enjoyed by all ages and abilities.
- Season change – Autumn, leaves. Natural tools with leaves, sprigs, they can collect from the garden.
- Open ended art & craft, beading, pasta – they can also make bracelets, head mask
- As well as early writing, mark-making can develop into mathematical representation and creative expression.
- Making marks enables children to develop their hand eye co-ordination and fine motor skills through practicing to hold a tool, deciding what grip suits them best, which hand feels most natural and through making small controlled movements using the tool.
- By giving children the opportunity to explore different mediums of mark making, it engages them in sensory play and allows them to discover new exciting materials.
- This helps to enhance a child’s critical thinking, brain development and language development, which gives them the ability to build towards more complex learning tasks in the future.
children take delight in using their mark making to tell stories and express their feelings. Pictures and symbols increasing sophistication and creativity. As the season brings its change, children have been on lots of nature walks and have been fascinated with the beautiful colours of change in nature, bringing it back to their learning space to create some beautiful masterpieces.
Our outdoor learning space floors have been used for some mark making with a simple touch of a brush and some water. Stories have been related in collaboration with peers building their social engagement,
Learning Intention 2 :
Provide opportunities for the children to further develop their Gross and fine motor skills during play experiences
Why:
Fine and gross Motor skills help children to navigate the world with confidence.
Children become more confident with a skill, gradually make the task smore difficult
Engage children in active activities every session where and when possible
The school holidays have seen children explore and extend on their gross motor skills within their outdoor learning space, building camping tents and riding their bikes on nature walks exploring the beautiful weather with its change, investigating and having lots of fun.
Our specks of gold bucket has been overflowing, Here are some special moments to cherish. One of them include saying good bye to Ms. Millie and wishing her all the very best and god’s blessings in her future endeavours.
Ngaityalya
Hope you all have a relaxing long weekend and we hope to see you all back in Term 2 for another exciting learning journey.