Nina Marni Long Day Care B children and families. This week was a short, but very busy one. We have welcomed a lot of new families and children to our room, some of them we are welcoming back here now they are 3 years old and are so happy to see them establish their belongings with us and their new learning environment. We have now established a routine that is working really well for our room and have followed this on with our first inquiry project ( as you will see in our next learning design and below)
Learning Intention: To continue working towards embedding consistent daily routines and rituals across our team and learning environment and focusing on our children’s sense of belonging to communities.
Following on from learning intention last week we are delighted to see each child enhancing their agency in daily tasks and self help skills and are driven to learn and help others around them. Drink bottles, bags and shoes are being found in the delegated spots a lot more now. With educators and teachers still ensuring that we are consistently reminding them for us to make sure this is happening daily. It has also been evident that each child has developed a deeper understanding of the rhythms and rituals of LDC B and have displayed a deeper curiosity within our environment.
Looking at how children are really engaged with our routine to help keep this consistent and the children aware. We are planning a visual routine to have up in our group time space for children to know what is happening and can visually see as well as hear what our routine looks like and what we are doing next. We are hoping this as well as other strategies will help keep our routine smooth for all children.
Following on from this intention we have really deepen our focus of identity and took into consideration the communities that we belong to start our inquiry project. The most obvious and special communities that children belong to are of course their families. During group time, children were invited to share photos of their loved ones and begin to create our Kinship tree as well as staff. Children loved seeing photos of their friends and teachers and who is apart of our lives this was a very special moment that we all loved being a part of.
This inquiry project has started so we are able to understand the importance of communities, coming together and finding our sense of agency and belonging. We can’t wait to see where tis takes us.
**a reminder for families to please send through family photos for your child to share**
Millie.Harty@holyfamily.catholic.edu.au
Learning Intention: To continue our literacy inquiry and embed ‘book making’ practices and encouraging children to be authors and continue our author study
Having continuing our mentoring from Lisa Burman we have developed a ‘spotlight’ for the term following preschool and LDC A. We are hoping that your children are using language such as ‘illustrations’, ‘title’ and ”author’ and actively seeking to bring meaning and purpose of books that you read at home as this has been a big highlight and focus for us this week and we have certainly seen / heard them use this language.
We certainly have incredibly creative and composed authors in our room! The LDC B children have been seen actively engaging in our book making station and then once completing their book have come up to their teachers with a sense of pride showing them their book and what it is about.
The spotlight for our bookmaking this term is supporting all children to understand what authors are and that they are authors too! This has evident and worked really well, as they seek book making throughout each day. We are also supporting children to become excited about and interested in book making through shared reading experiences. Like our author study and having book making stations in multiple different learning environments.
We used books such as ‘Macka the Alpaca’ to tell a story through simply looking at the illustrations. Books that contain pages lots off illustrations or no text at all have been a valuable impact in our book making journey for children to observe and make decisions made by the author and develop the understanding of making meaning and depth through pictures.
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Trajectories:
- Following the evident interest of our learners we have lead down a new path for our inquiry project this term. We look forward to making new discoveries together about their belongings and different communities.
- Sensory and art provacations with different tools and medias
- Community walks daily
- Using a variety of picture and information books at mentor texts