Niina Marni Preschool children and families and welcome to our weekly blog.
This time of the year is always exciting as we start the preparation to celebrate Christmas. In preschool room, children are busy practicing for Christmas carols performance, creating the decorations and being joyous with the season’s delight.
Inquiry project:
Our Place in the World
What we’ve learnt
-you can reach different destinations by
different modes of transport
-many of us have family or have visited places interstate.
-we have lots of family/interest about overseas. Some key areas:
-Sydney, Melbourne, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Papua New Guinea, India, Iceland, Poland, Africa.
-about Livij, Jack and Erich’s holidays and location of family.
-about Alice’s language and location of Russia
-different states have different animals, weather and landscape
Children are becoming familiar to see countries and oceans in the globe and map. They are curious and interested to see types of land such as desert, wetland, forest, grassland and polar region and the animals live there.
Watching Mr. McCarthy releasing Yarra Pygmy Perch and Gudgeon fish into billabongs!
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.
Construction experiences:
Learning Intention:
To support children’s engagement, development and self-regulation through strengthening their sensory processing capabilities.
Why?
Sensory processing is a foundational building block for learning. Our senses collect information from the world around us, as well as our interactions within it. This information is then processed in our brain, forming the basis of our learning, wellbeing and secure interactions with others. The brain and body need an abundance of sensory-motor experiences in the first years of life in order to strengthen this partnership and to provide children with lifelong sensory processing capabilities.
ILP’S: AS, AR, RW, AS, ED, HC, HM, TB, VT
Having picnic at the school oval!
Outdoor fun!
Embracing our natural landscape and create outdoor classrooms (eg bookmaking outdoors)
There are so much to explore in and around the sandpit!
Collecting sticks for construction and campfire!
Environment as the Third Teacher:
Multi-sensory experiences which stimulate children’s sensory systems of touch, taste, sound, sight, smell, vestibular (movement) and proprioception (‘heavy work’). Examples include: crushing herbs playing with cloud dough, transferring flour, hefting/transporting heavy items outdoors, dancing, jumping, rolling
Trajectories:
- Christmas songs practice
- More nature play
- Outdoor classroom at the oval