Nina Marni Beautiful children and their lovely Families. Welcome to our Early Learning holiday blog.
Learning Intention 1:
To support children’s expression of ideas through our outside environment by creating moments of play with nature play. By explore a variety of enriching experiences which caters to the interests and imaginations of young learner’s. As well as following of sustainable practices, which could lead to inquiry.
Why:
Ensuring our holiday season is filled with laughter and adventure.
- Recently children were talking about chickens and giving them scraps from our dining room. Hannah will be bringing her pet chickens for us to explore this idea further.
- By giving children the opportunity to explore a variety of nature play, 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.
Natural environments provide children with endless opportunities to explore investigate and be innovative through imagination and creativity. Our little learners have been very creative and quite explorative throughout this holiday week putting to use all of their innovative and creative skills. Some enriched moments of sustainability were captured where children took responsibility towards taking care of their own learning spaces and its foliage.
Our nature play continues as the weather gets warmer with a bit of sensory experiences with water. Children began exploring their creativity with a bit of sensory having lots of fun.
Learning Intention 2 : Provide opportunities for the children to further develop their Gross and fine motor skills during play experiences with community walks
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
Our community walks around the school provided children with lots of fun and engagement as they were able to exercise and extend on their physical capabilities at the playground and log park.
| Book makingLiteracy Intentions (our hopes for their learning)Children will develop a joyful connection to picture books. Weekly focus Starting from scratch, what is a book? What is the purpose? Who reads books? Who writes books? What do they look like? Teachers will use information gained about prior knowledge to decide next steps.Mentor textsExplore a range of booksHaving discussions on taking care of our books, reading books with children Book making stations avalaible at all times Discussions and questioning to follow.Educators to find moments to read or make books to small groups of children and using these moments as an opportunity for self-regulation and grounding ILP’s: All children |
This week we had a special visitor visit us at Early Learning. Speedy the turtle paid our little leaners a visit. Speedy is our teacher Ms.Archie’s pet turtle. Ms Archie had a daughter Dhyana bring in her pet turtle and she dressed up as a zoo keeper in aligning with the Dear Zoo story book. A lenghty learning and slide show was provided to the children alongside cleaning the turtle tank and givign him a bath. The child’s voice has been included with lots of open ended verbal communication and interactions.
Some specs of gold for this week
Hope you all have a relaxing long weekend.