Nina Mani welcome LDC B families and children to our week 5 blog.
Learning Intention 1: To develop and embed sustainable practices as community, fostering a love and appreciation for God’s world.
ILP’S: ALL
WHY:
- As part of the catholic ethos, we aim to support children to develop a love, respect and appreciation for all of God’s creations.
- Practicing sustainability empowers children to construct knowledge, explore values and develop an appreciation of the environment. This lays foundations for an environmentally responsible adulthood.
- Through hands on experiences and relevant educator pedagogies, children can explore and learn about their local contexts and environmental issues.
- Children can develop the creativity and critical thinking skills necessary to make informed decisions for change, improving the quality of their lives and those of future generations.
What a week to focus on our new learning intention of God’s world and everything in it with all the amazing weather we have had and a new season starting around the corner! Every time the sunshine was out, we took the opportunity to warm ourselves in the rays and appreciate being outside! We truly love being outside and here at Holy Family we advocate for learning and playing outside for children’s learning is essential.
This week to help with this intention we did a visual group time of our two bins in our room (blue and red) and what we think goes in what bin and why this is sustainable and helps our world and community we live in.
Following on from this group time children have been continuing to go out to the school for community visits, but this time with our buckets and tongs to pick up rubbish. To keep our school clean and free of litter. The children loved exploring our grounds and helping the school community and do this more regularly.
Children’s voice:
Niya: Millie it is dirty we got to pick it up.
Philip: Paper in the blue bin.
Hugo: Millie looks it’s raining.
De de: Look at all the rubbish I picked up.
Next week’s provocations:
- Planting with Archie
- More community walks.
- Looking at our worm farm
- Helping with the school veggie and herb gardens
Learning Intention 2: To support each child to recognise and communicate their bodily needs.
Why:
- To support children in building a strong sense of wellbeing.
- A strong sense of wellbeing provides children with confidence and optimism which maximise their learning potential.
- To encourage the development of children’s innate exploratory drive, a sense of agency and a desire to interact with others.
- To remain accessible to others at times of distress, confusion, and frustration.
- To support them to stay happy, healthy, safe, and connected to others.
- To develop increasing awareness of healthy lifestyle and good nutrition.
- Educators have noticed and reflected on children’s discomfort and their own ways of expressing their needs.
- To support children in building their confidence, share their ideas in group settings.
- To nurture children’s engagement in everyday experiences.
- Enabling them to be active participants in routines and interactions.
- Maintaining high expectations of each child’s capabilities.
ILPS: ALL
Whether it was a coincidence or an effective learning intention that we have set for the next few weeks, educators noticed an increased level of children assessing safe risks this week and were delighted to see children continuing to point out things that may be unsafe and working towards changing it! (Red choices and Green choices).
Educators also noticed increased engagement in areas that provided opportunity for risk and children engaging in ways that kept themselves and their peers safe (climbing equipment and the rock station).
Our LDC B friends even helped educators to put the sand back in the sandpit and mats down for our climbing equipment and physical movement after discussing the danger that could be present when there isn’t enough sand inside the pit and when we don’t have something safe and soft to land on!
Bookmaking
Spotlight Term 3:
‘What’s your book about?’ – supporting children to choose Themes for their stories and encourage writing.
Part of embedding bookmaking into the learning environment is supporting and fostering a love of literacy and storytelling.
This week the children engaged in group experiences such singing and physical movement. We also notice and respect the role of dramatic play in early literacy and the way it supports children’s emerging literate identities through play.
When children engage in dramatic play whether it’s in environments set up by educators or from their own creation, they take on various roles. When you stop and listen, you can hear their oral language through their role play and interactions with one another. We loved hearing the little conversations our friends were having with one another.
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