July learning journey in pre-kinder

Our educators communicate with the parents daily through the OWNA app so they can follow their child’s learning journey. The educators also provide a monthly learning story. Here’s an example of the learning journey of the pre-kindy class for July.

 

The month of July has been very exciting! 🎉

This month, we have seen deeper connections between friendships and a beautiful unity of being a group where we share our activities and experiences. We have also observed more empathy and cooperation among the children in and outside the classroom.

 

Welcoming new friends in Pre Kindy

The big news is that we have welcomed three new students to our growing pre-kinder community at Enrich! We have all been open and welcoming as they begin their journey with us.

 

Learning journey

In Pre-Kindy, we have covered many aspects of learning this month, including the very exciting new Montessori Pink Tower!!! The tower is used alongside the brown stairs introduced last month. These learning tools help continuously build and expand the children’s size discrimination learning.

The children are absolutely delighted when they create their own tower, built from biggest to smallest (or best they can), as they learn to use the error-correcting material repeatedly. It has been wonderful to observe the children’s cognitive process from vertical to horizontal, depending on their stage of ability.

 

Visual identity cards

We have now added the children’s names to our successful visual identity cards. Here, we are encouraging children to recognise their own names more personally visually. It is a beautiful way to encourage letter recognition through our educator’s dedicated weekly sensory letter activities, in which she works alongside the children to understand the significance of a letter’s purpose.

 

Learning practical life skills

Every month, we work on our practical life skills. This month, it was all about tasting and enjoying the efforts of our food-handling skills. We peeled mandarins and made our own orange juice😋. Every day, we practised pouring our own water into a glass cup and using tongs and big spoons to serve our own food. Yum and fun! Of course, our routine includes other practical life skills, such as washing dishes, and independent self-help skills, like toilet training.

NAIDOC Week brought native and natural resources to our curriculum

During NAIDOC week, we celebrate our acknowledgment of our Ancestors’ traditions on the land through music, dancing, cooking, and art. We loved the Native and natural collage resources that are freely available to us this month. We used cardboard cutouts of Australian animals, leaves, bark, and many earthy resources, plus paint, glue, and scissors, all available for the children to access when they desire to get creative.

 

Getting active with Little Big Sports

Every Wednesday, Little Big Sports comes to our centre. Coach Alex works with the children to develop their gross motor skills and the ability to assist them in listening to instructions.

 

Learning to take turns

Taking turns is a big part of the morning circle group times in Pre-Kindy. It teaches the children important skills, like patience and understanding emotions, to be successful in school and life.

 

Fun days in July

We had a ‘crazy hair day’ and a ‘pyjama day’, which was so much 🤩 fun!! Allowing a child’s sense of belonging to a group brings confidence as we collaborate and dress up together.

 

Fostering friendships day

Our Friendship Development Day on Mondays is our main outdoor day. This is a purposeful outdoor play day where we allow the children to “play” together. Social and emotional interactions are crucial to their language and friendship development.

We love having our daily shared painting Easel inside the room. The children are able to freely contribute through artistic self-expression. Sometimes, we paint alone, and sometimes, we paint with each other. Either way, it’s all our work, and we choose different paint colours each week.