Niina marni preschool children and families, welcome to our weekly blog.
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.
Our preschool children use a great range of resources and materials to recognise different letters, make marks and create their own stories in book making 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.
We are fortunate to have a huge outdoor environment with a variety of experiences on offer. Our natural landscape and outdoor classrooms (eg bookmaking outdoors) engage children even more.
This week they spent extended time on oval and share morning/afternoon tea.
They explored the natural environment with a focus on what they are seeing, smelling and tasting.
Sports day!
Rainy day play! Children are aware about weather appropriate clothing and shoes.
Construction
Sensory experiences
Trajectories:
- Explore different natural items for sensory experiences
- Preparing for carols night
- Outdoor classroom experiences