Principal’s Message Continued...

By Christine Irwin

A project approach encourages children’s cognitive skills and persistence in wanting to learn, to find out more, to investigate, to hypothesize and come to conclusions. Educators are encouraged to look, listen, and question children’s thought and ideas. The Early Years Leaning Framework supports this stye of learning and discusses the importance of children be confident and involved learners though Play based experiences. These are supported through the projects investigated over the term.

“Developing learning dispositions such as curiosity, persistence and creativity enables all children to participate in and gain from learning experiences. Effective learners can transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another and locate and use resources for learning. In a supportive active learning environment, children who are confident and involved learners are increasingly able to take responsibility for their own learning, personal regulation and contribution to the social environment.” Early Years Learning Framework Australia Version 2,2022”

We encourage our families to be involved in the children’s projects so please check the photos of the provocation boards and learning stories from each class on Tapestry . The education team appreciate any additional resources such as books, photos or family experiences to add to the learning of the group.

Looking forward to chatting to you soon,

Christine Irwin Principal Reddam ELS, Lindfield

By Heather Gaskall

Hello our dear families and just how much fun and exploration have our little ones been having this week looking into the big wide world of transport. It certainly is a child led provocation, 'Car, Car' is the call all day from the children. Whether its the colour, shape or the wheels that interest them, it doesn't matter as long as there are vehicles for them to manipulate. Following that we are exposing the children to the many modes of transport with some inspiring experiences like floating boats in our water play outside compared to the cars which sink. We have provided the children with a masking tape car track on the floor which they can either walk along or trundle the many vehicles we have in the room along it. To make this track more interesting we introduced a traffic light which blinks regularly, red-stop, green-go and has pedestrian signals also. The children have fallen in love with this and continually press the buttons to make the lights change. I feel sorry for the child attempting to complete the circuit as the lights are constantly changing. But they have found this a very social experience and can be observed taking turns at pressing the buttons. We have also incorporated this set of lights into our singing time, we sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and change the lights in time with the music, the children find this very entertaining.

You may of noticed we are starting our mornings outside, this is due to the days lately being very hot and humid in the afternoons. The children are very much enjoying our mornings starting outside, and just adore the coolness of the early mornings in our shady backyard. They are able to run, kick balls, water the flowers beds, and especially climb over the soft cushioned obstacle course.

Next week we will be introducing construction vehicles and perhaps some tools and hard hats for the children to enjoy some dramatic play as well as the different types of vehicles.

Wishing all our families a lovely weekend, Heather, Carina, Jing and Betty

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By Hazel Whybrow

This week we continued exploring the children’s interest in transport. A variety of experiences have been set up in our classroom for the children to explore vehicles. The children have been busy exploring all the different vehicles they could find. As they did so we named each vehicle, found out what colour it was and made the noise it makes. "Brmmmm" said Louis as he turned the wheels of the white truck, "Helicopter!" said Isabelle excitedly, "Beep beep" said Florence holding the yellow bus.

The children enjoyed exploring the sand trays in our classroom which have been filled with diggers and natural materials. Throughout the week we also ventured out to the sandpit. The children enjoyed exploring the large diggers and excitedly pointed them out to us. Some of them pushed the diggers around saying, "brmmmm". Throughout the week we noticed many large trucks driving past our playground to the building site at the end of the road. On Wednesday we saw a concrete mixer! We watched in amazement as it drove past us, and then turned around and reversed into the building site. We talked about what a concrete mixer does, and listened to the sounds it made. We then watched a video and a song all about concrete mixers to further our understanding.

Thank you all for a great week,

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