Holy Family Catholic School Early Learning Blog LDC -4 (Term -1/Week 11)

Nina Marni, all our little learners and awsome families,

Welcome to our first term & week eleven blog.

Learning Intention 1

To Establish within our Precious Children focusing on developing self-regulation strategies and positive dispositions in our Early Learning Center.

Why: –

[1] Educators can develop deeper understandings of the importance of wellbeing in a child’s learning.

[2] As a team we have established immediate points of action to support our community in their holistic development.

[3] It is important for us to lay the foundations to maximize the opportunities for children throughout their ongoing education.

[4] Recognize the importance of wellbeing and perceptions of the child.

[5] Acknowledge their ability to build social networks of support, feel confident as learners, and manage the challenging emotions that will arise when facing the unknown faces.

[6] Fostering willingness and build self-confidence, enjoyment of learning ad minimizes the fears around taking a risk to learn.

[7] Strengthens the art of teaching. It recognizes the critical importance of relationships, perception of self and the wellbeing and emotional states of complete engagement.

ILP’s: All children

This week we had lots of experiences related to establish within our precious children focusing on developing self-regulation strategies and positive dispositions in our Early Learning Center.

-Introducing a richer vocabulary about feelings (stress, worry, anxious etc.)

– Shared reading of the feeling’s series, promoting discussions normalizing feelings.

– facilitating mindfulness prior to rest time.

– body percussion in Music Movement.

– ‘Walk and talks’ made possible through small group community visits like playground, log park, big sand pit.

– Incursion: Veggie Garden & Madla.

-Discussions around Health & Safety.

Using physical activity and/or relaxation exercises including yoga and music for children to help them regulate their arousal state (up or down). Children that need activity to regulate their emotions).
Providing a range of ‘self-regulating’ experiences and sensory materials such as playdough, sand, soft toys, coloured different shaped/ sized pasta and rice.
Responding consistently and sensitively to help calm and soothe anxious, unsettled, frustrated or stressed children.
Fostering secure attachment relationships that provide sensitive and consistent emotional support that responds to children’s individual sensitivities and temperaments.

“Self-regulation brings together the nature versus nature argument. It demonstrates that both are important in children’s development.

“Though all children have the ability to develop self-regulation, to do this they must experience supportive envirnment.”

“Children need the guidance and support of trusted adults who understand their needs and help them develop alternative strategies to regulate their emotions.”

Childen enjoyed yoga activity with educators. Children had a great experience with music activity. Some children had a good practice with loyts of different music instruments with friends. Some explored themselves with homecorner including kitchen fun and doll corner.

Every child is different and they have their own choices.

Jace, Rita, Joana, Asher & shama enjoyed music with dance.

Bentley said to educator, I like milk.

Sadie loves to play with kitchen toys, yey………

Holly like to do lots of drawing.

Lucas and bentley exploring themselves with musical instruments.

Jayden was very much involved in different dinosours.

Children enjoyed their lunch in dinning area with chatting each other.

Grouptime children learning daily calender and days of the week, good choices, bad choices.

MUSIC WITH MOVEMENT:-

Music is very helpful for younger children, it will help to improve children cognitive skills like,

Enhanced Memory and Concentration: Music engages various brain regions, stimulating memory and attention.
Improved Problem-Solving: Music can enhance cognitive functions like planning and flexibility.
Development of Spatial-Temporal Skills: Music education is linked to improved spatial-temporal reasoning and mathematical abilities.
Pattern Recognition: Music and rhythm activities help preschoolers develop pattern recognition skills.

IMAGINARY PLAY [DOCTOR’S VISIT]:- Children’s Pretend Play with using Doctors Kit.

Help children explore and learn the role of doctors and nurses, as well as doctors equipment with all the essentials including a a doctor’s bag, a stethoscope, blood pressure apparatus and medication. Children can role play and develop their creative thinking skills. Playing with the pretend kit will also assist in preparing children for a real doctors appointment.

Children looked very involved and engaged during this experience.

Children’s Pretend Play Doctors Kit is very helpful for children being very confident and involved learner with improving their social emotional skills.:

DAILY ROUTINES:-

CONTINUE DIFFERENT EASTER FUN WITH FRIENDS:-

Easter craft activities with use of Easter tracing bunny, paper craft by using paper plate, egg shape crafts, chickens, easter bunny’s etc. Children looked very engaged and involved in all different experiences.

OKRA PAINTING :

This week children had a new experience with Okra Painting. With using Okra children made very beautiful art on the coloured paper. Childen loved this fun. Some children made a rainbow and some children did some stamping and made a little flower shape.

Learning Intention:2

Learning Intention: To support children’s understanding of the importance of sun safety and embedding consistent daily sun safe practices across our team and learning environment.

Why: –

Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing – (Early Years Learning Framework, Learning outcome – 3).
Children show an increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles.
Children show increasing independence and competence in personal hygiene, care and safety for themselves and others.
Explaining the time of the days that important for sun protection.
Showing them the tools, they need to protect their skins in the environment.
Introducing Sun Smart Protection steps.
Encouraging children to drink water.

Everybody needs some sun exposure to produce vitamin D (which helps calcium absorption for stronger and healthier bones). But unprotected exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can cause damage to the skin, eyes, and immune system. It can. There are other contributing factors such as heredity and environment. But sunburn and excessive UV light exposure do damage the skin. This damage can lead to skin reaction or premature skin aging (photoaging).

Sunscreens protect the skin against sunburns and play an important role in blocking the penetration of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. But no sunscreen product blocks UV radiation 100%. A sunscreen protects from sunburn and minimizes suntan by absorbing or reflecting UV rays. Using sunscreens correctly is important in protecting the skin.

Educator talk everyday in our grouptime about our daily routine with visual cards. Educator teaching children about calender including days of the week, month, date, year and current weather conditions. We also discuss in our daily group time about green choices and red choices.

BIKE RIDING IN BIKE YARD AND AROUND THE SCHOOL :-

LIBRARY VISIT WITH FRIENDS AND EDUCATORS :-

COMMUNITY VISIT AROUND SCHOOL :- MUDLA

LOGPARK VISIT:–

PLAYGORUND FUN WITH FRIENDS:-

Learning Intention 3:
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.
o Candle flames remind us that God is with us.
o The Bible reminds us of God’s love for us through special stories.
o The Cross reminds us of Jesus.
o 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

ILP’s: All Children.

The Sign of the Cross is a prayer to God.

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. T
he actions represent the symbol of the Cross, and that prayer involves our head, heart and body.

God has established prayer as a means for us to communicate with him. Through prayer, we can praise God, ask for forgiveness, thank God for all he’s done, and let our requests be made known to him. Prayer allows us to open our hearts to God and let him know our innermost thoughts and desires.