Niina Marni preschool families and children and welcome to our weekly blog.
Our most exciting part of the week was to explore the world through google map and world map to see other parts of the world and knowing about the places our family came from and relatives live in.
Inquiry project:
Our Place in the World
What we know –
We live in Australia
Maps show location
Resources and experiences
-exploring our globe -Connecting to Kaurna land and Adelaide
-Maps
-Make your home provocation
Information texts
-destination maps from homes to school
-pictures of SA landmarks
-Provocations from Elle’s holidays
-city small world play
Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials – Learning outcome 4.4, Early Years Learning Framework. Our preschool children love o use their senses to explore natural and built environments. They experience the benefits and pleasure of shared learning exploration.
Literacy Intentions (our hopes for their learning)
- General sound discrimination and rhyme awareness.
- Matching Rhyming words orally.
- Reading picture books regularly. Children will enjoy a joyful connection to picture books.
- Continue using mark-making tools, such as crayons, textas, pencils, paint, chalk, sand (as they create texts during this process).
- Children will build symbolic functioning, sharing something about the marks they have created.
Learning Intention:
To nurture and deepen each child’s innate sense of agency in decision making and routine/self-help tasks.
Why
- The sense of agency is defined as the sense of oneself as the agent of one’s own actions. This also allows oneself to feel distinct from others, and contributes to the subjective phenomenon of self-consciousness
- In the approved learning frameworks, agency is defined as being able to make choices and decisions to influence events and to have an impact on one’s world. Supporting children’s agency is about recognising that children have a right to make choices and decisions, and are capable of initiating their own learning.
- Children who have opportunities to effectively assess and manage risk at an early age will be better equipped to deal with risk as an adult. It also creates a learning environment where children can identify their limits, seek help when needed, and supports children to explore, experiment and cope with the unexpected.
- There are many benefits to children participating in decision making, such as learning to consider the needs of others, developing problem-solving skills and it can increase their commitment to making decisions work
This week, children worked on their expectations in preschool room.
Construction experiences are the most favourite in our preschool room. Children continue to amaze everyone with their incredible ideas and explore different tools, setup, environment to create and manipulate new objects.
Active play is another favourite experience in preschool room. Yoga, music and movement, dancing and social/group games support children to be engaged in their physical activities.
Trajectories:
- Continue to explore different parts of the world.
- Continue to support children in decision making and routine/self-help tasks.
- Introducing speech bubbles in book making experiences.