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Buzzing, Buzzing Bees!

  • November 17, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

 

The Kindy classes have been learning about Bees and discovering how they make honey. The learning journey has helped the children make sense of the world around them, fostered an interest for learning about Science and promoted respect for God’s creatures and living things.

Honey Products

A Beekeeper checking the class beehive

You need to take care when handling bees!

The children have been curious about how bees make honey, how bees make beehives and how honey is collected from beehives. Their experiences have been extended by making a class beehive and investigating honey products. We have looked at the design of honeycomb from a beehive and the children enjoyed tasting, smelling and touching honey.

Let’s cook with honey!

We loved making ‘Honey Joys’ for our Teddy Bears Picnic, they were delicious!

Yummy Honey!

The children were inspired by the learning experience to respect their living environment. Through discovering the journey of the honey bee, they are learning to use information and communication technologies to investigate ideas and gaining an interest and appreciation in learning about Science.

The Busy Kindy Blue ‘Honey Pot Cafe’

The Kindy Gold Honey Shop

Buddy Time!

  • October 22, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Gold · Year 3 · Year 3 Gold

Last week the Kindy children met their Year 3 Buddy class. Buddy time provides valuable opportunities for older children to interact and play alongside younger children and it allows them to learn from each other.

The Year 3 Buddies came to the Library with the Kindy children and helped them to learn and become familiar with the library procedures and showed them how to select a library book.
Mixed-age grouping has great potential to support children’s social and emotional learning. Older children are given an opportunity to take on leadership roles and support the younger children, while at the same time building their own self-confidence and self-esteem. The Kindy children enjoyed showing their Year 3 Buddies the Pre Primary playground and exploring the early childhood bush space.

We had a fun afternoon together!

Welcome Back to Term 4!

  • October 14, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

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I Can Be A Super Friend!

  • September 6, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

From a young age children develop an understanding of what is expected of them in social interactions.

In Kindy we build on this understanding by drawing attention to positive peer behaviours as they occur naturally throughout the day.

One way we acknowledge positive behaviours is through the use of the ‘Super Friend’ social story and awarding ‘Super Friend Certificates’.

This helps children learn what good friendship skills are, and assists them to start to use them naturally as they play and interact with their peers.In the Kindy year children become more interested in other children, but they don’t always have the skills that they need to make and maintain friendships or engage in sustained cooperative play.

It is important at home and at school to provide ongoing support to help children learn and practice important social skills.

Let’s Go Camping!

  • August 20, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

Role play is an integral part of the developmental learning process, it allows children to develop skills such as abstract thinking and social skills in a natural manner.

Assigning roles in play

Dramatic play is the type of play where children accept and assign roles, and act them out. It is when they pretend to be someone or something different from themselves, and dramatise situations and actions to go along with the roles they have chosen to play.

Using props in pretend play

Social/Emotional Development – When children come together in a dramatic play experience, they have to agree on a topic, negotiate roles, and cooperate to bring it all together.

Negotiating and sharing roles

Physical Development – Dramatic play helps children develop both gross and fine motor skills eg dressing a doll, doing up buttons…

Gross Motor Development

Cognitive Development – When children are involved in make-believe play, they make use of pictures they have created in their minds to recreate past experiences, which is a form of abstract thinking. Setting a table for a meal, counting out change as a cashier… By adding props – road signs, food boxes and cans, paper and pencils to the materials included in the area, we help children develop their numeracy and literacy skills. When children come together in this form of play, they learn how to share ideas, and solve problems together.

Props in role play

Language Development – In order to work together in a dramatic play situation, children learn to use language to explain what they are doing. They learn to ask and answer questions and the words they use fit whatever role they are playing. Personal vocabularies grow as they begin to use new words appropriately.

Developing oral language

Dramatic play engages children in both life and learning. It builds their understanding of the world they live in, and develops the personal skills that will help them meet with success throughout their lives.

The Mud Kitchen

The Bushland

  • August 10, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

Exploring nature

From trees and flowers to birds, animals, insects, sticks and leaves, nature has plenty of stimuli for children to explore, admire and have educational experiences with.

Bush Scavenger Hunt!

Encouraging this love and appreciation of nature from a young age can help children create a respect for the planet and a feeling of being connected to the world around them.

Exploring the Bushland

With less structure than indoor spaces, taking children outdoors promotes creativity. Being out and about in nature encourages them to think outside the box and explore.

Investigating and learning together

The benefits for children of being in nature include improved learning and development in physical, mental health and wellbeing.

Bush Scavenger Hunt

At St Emilie’s we are so lucky to have a natural bush play space for the children to explore, play and learn in our early childhood area.

Let’s investigate!

Nature play enhances the early learning and development of children while creating a more nature-savvy future generation.

Taking observations

Kindy Welcome Back to Term 3!

  • July 20, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

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National Reconciliation Week – In This Together

  • June 4, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

In Kindy through our work with children, we are building a respect and valuing of Australia as a diverse nation and an ancient land that has been cared for by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for many thousands of years.

Reconciliation requires a commitment to reflecting upon what we can do to contribute to building a more tolerant and just society and sustainable environment to support children to understand, respect and value diversity.

The Kindy children have been engaged in listening to traditional Aboriginal stories, understanding the significance of the colours on the Aboriginal flag, learning about Bush Tucker, viewing Aboriginal artworks and exploring Aboriginal music and dance.

‘Together, we can foster a sense of belonging

Together, we can create and access culturally safe spaces and places

Together, we can learn from the past as we forge the road ahead

Together, we can nurture and care for Country

Together, we can walk the path of reconciliation.’

Friendship Matters

  • May 22, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

Playing with other children is the best way to build social and emotional competence. It is through time spent in play, that children work out how to be a good friend.

Play helps children build a ‘play code’, which is an innate willingness to play with other children. This code includes learning how to take turns, how to share, and how to win and lose with a degree of grace.

Parents and educators need to help children resolve conflicts by making them aware of how to manage different wants, needs and emotions.

If children feel unloved and rejected they can get angry or frustrated very quickly. It takes time for Kindy children to develop their emotional and social competence.

Nothing works better at building positive affection and companionship in childhood than real play  — imaginative, competitive, unstructured, organised, free range and adventuresome PLAY.

Here in Kindy we see the benefits of rich play experiences every day!

 

The Wonder of Creation!

  • May 8, 2020
  • reed.jane
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold

Children have a natural spirituality, in Kindy we nurture an awareness of God and the wonder of life by providing a range of experiences which will develop each child’s sense of wonder in God’s presence in creation.In the early years each child is invited to interact with an environment rich in learning opportunities. Spiritual, social and emotional growth are fostered as children learn about God’s love for them and as they show respect and care for others.

                

To develop religious awareness in the early years, the learning environment provides opportunities for children to:

  • wonder in God’s presence and creation
  • explore God’s creation
  • engage in human experiences that relate to religious concepts
  • engage in role-play that helps develop their religious awareness
  • recall and retell scripture stories
  • see modelled how to relate with others in the way Jesus taught
  • be introduced to simple rituals and symbols – Baptism

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