Namaste (hello in hindi) LDC A Children and families Welcome to our week 4 and 5 blog Learning intension : Provide opportunity for the children to develop their language skills through play and intentional teaching

Why:

• Observation with the children, parent feedback and feedback from OT
• Language development is the process by which children learn to communicate with words and sentences.
• It starts with sounds and gestures, then words and sentences. It supports many other aspects of development, like cognitive, social and literacy development
• Language development is an important part of child development.
• It supports a child’s ability to communicate. It also supports a child’s ability to:
• Express and understand feelings.
•  Think and learn.
• Solve problems.
• Develop and maintain relationships.
• Learning to understand, use and enjoy language is the first step in literacy, and the basis for learning to read and write. ILP’S: All Children

  a Exploring Dinosaur world (sensory) Welcome Jasmeet to LDC A Teacher scaffolded learning :

• How can we assist the child in their language development journey?
• The best way we can encourage a child’s language development is to do a lot of talking with them about things that interest the child. It’s all about following a child’s lead.
• We will engage in conversation with the children during experiences and routines.
• During group times we continue to discuss the daily plans, (these are based around the children’s interest and development need. We let the children discuss what they would like to do and encourage choices.)
• During group times we will incorporate song and stories to continue to provide opportunities for the children to engage and practise language.
• We will be selecting a specific story for the week and read this to the children. We will discuss the book and the pictures. We will try and get the children to engage in conversation about the book.
• Afternoon group time is again an area that we encourage language and communication by discussing what we enjoyed the most about the day (spot of gold) Reading and sharing books about plenty of different topics lets a child hear words used in many different ways.
• We will use the child’s interest to select the books that we will read and the activities that are developed and provided for the child.
• We will be linking what’s in the book to what’s happening in a child’s life to encourage the children to talk and communicate with us. For example, we can say, ‘We went to the playground today, just like the boy in this book. What do you like to do at the playground?’
• We will also encourage talking by chatting about interesting pictures in the books that we read with the children.

Environment as the third Teacher :

• Reading corner with a variety of different books based on children’s interest. Currently books about Bugs Small world environments based around the child’s interest. Use a book based on the interest with the small world.
• Visual shapes – discussions about the shapes. Ask questions to encourage language like “what item can we see that is round?” This also will encourage the children to understand that objects can have shapes.
• Visual colours Talking with the children about the colours. What colour is? Questions to encourage language.
• Jolly phonics
• Songs – Repetitive “Wind the bobbin”, “Open shut them”, These songs also assist the children with transition to the mat for grouptime

Painting is an excellent way for children to express themselves and process their emotions. painting is the way where children how to express  their own ideas and imagination on to paper.  

Exploring sandpit always had great fun for children

Learning intensions :Celebrations are a hugely enjoyable way to nurture cultural competence in children so that they become aware of and learn to appreciate diverse values and beliefs that exist within the community. Why Celebration of others cultural provide opportunities to learn about and show respect for the cultural diversity that forms the fabric of the service, and they can help to foster a sense of belonging. In week 4 we celebrated India’s most widely celebrated festival Diwali. Diwali the name is derived from the Sanskrit term Deepavali, meaning “row of lights.” The festival generally symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. we celebrated Diwali for a week with every day new experiences. children made traditional sweets with the help of educators ,rangoli making , Heena art ,decorations the premises  and wearing Indian attires.

Children loved the Heena painting and they even told educators the Heena design they choose to do it.

 

 

Making coconut balls was another experience which children loved the most. We can see the excitement while they mixing the better.

 

Children loved the different colours today – they were super excited while making a colorful Rangoli

 

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Construction – this helps to to develop many skills in children such as hand eye coordination, creativity, problem solving, social and language skills.

Water play activities help to develop and strength children’s gross and fine motor skills – This is certainly an area of learning in which the children gravitate towards here in LDC A . Trajectories:

• Observing the children over the next few weeks to see what interests they have 
• Christmas preparation  
• Transition preparation