Shining Stars
Daily rules, routines, and procedures have been explored through location games, songs, and movement exercises. The youngest group are developing their gross motor skills through these large movements, and honing their fine motor skills by using coloured pencils, and other artistic mediums.
Keeping the children’s attention for any extended period of time is challenging. By having a variety of activities available to them during lessons, the group are able to pick and choose what they feel interested in, while improving on skills they wish to develop.
Cherry Smiles
Coordination has been the theme of the week. It was a little surprising to see that the group were not very confident when holding pencils, using scissors, or using glue, and the theme of the week was included to try to address that. Different motor skills exercises were incorporated into their regular learning, and it was a pleasure to see their confidence build.
Exposure to different mediums and materials, as well as different tools to manipulate them is great for motorskills, and their knowledge and creativity in general.
Happy Faces
Letter P and letter N were the focus this week. Pigs, pirates, pencils, and other vocabulary were explored and a Peacock paper craft was made to finish off the letter. Nest, Nut, Newt, and more were looked at for letter N with the group making mini finger puppet Pigs at the end of the week.
All of the above learning has revolved heavily around physical games in an attempt to hold their attention whilst facilitating a positive learning environment.
Preschool
In relation to a previous week’s work on body parts, the children were oddly interested in microbes and bacteria this week. Short videos of how the body responds to illness, how to combat illness, and how to be healthy has been accompanied by conversation with the group, as well as letting them have their own time to draw what they believed that had learnt about.
When a child expresses an interest in almost anything, it is important to explore that interest with them. Being able to adapt to an individual’s or group’s needs/wants is the mark of someone who is paying attention to a child. Helping children to understand that curiosity is a valuable and positive trait only helps their overall social, emotional, and creative development
Final Note AGAIN!!!
Sweets/Candy
Please do not give your children sweets, candy, chewing gum, or any other sugary foodstuffs to bring to the kindergarten.
At school it is important that children are aware of healthy eating habits, as well as learning to make their own choices. By giving your child sweets to take to school it undermines our goals, as well as not being a good thing to have first thing in the morning.
