Learning Across the ELC

Learning in the Preschool

Our Preschool children absolutely love being part of the Loreto Community and exploring the many different play spaces on our vast Loreto Grounds. Each space enables their curious minds to create and transform as they engage in imaginative play and physical risk taking. Climbing trees is always a favourite as well as collecting and classifying objects and noticing similarities and differences in objects, people, and places. The children are enjoying feeding their library books to the Cookie Monster on our Library visits and engaging in specialist Music, Chinese and PE classes too. Each adventure we go on, we link our observations back to our 'same, different, unique' inquiry where we notice where in spaces we can climb and how to climb safely, and identifying spaces where we can be loud and run, or need to use our quiet voices and walk.

Ms Ollie Lauder

ELC Teacher

Learning in Banksia

Week 3 Banksia Inquiry

It was Valentine’s Day in week 3 in The Banksia Room. To connect with our inquiry ‘Who We Are,’ we began to explore the concept of ‘love’ and what it meant to us. Love can mean so many things. The friends discussed how we can love ourselves, other people and things. After reading ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ by Adam Rubin and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ by Dr Seuss, we talked about how we can love lots of different foods.

Transportation and Roads

Our Banksia children have shown interest in building roads and cities using train tracks, trains and cars. As an extension to this, we created a road on the long bench in our room. Children used their imagination to come up with ideas of what a road can look like and what they may see near a road. We added stop signs, a bridge, trees and flowers, houses and animals. Throughout the day, individual children and small groups moved their trains and cars around the track and added their own drawings to the paper. This activity promotes eye/hand coordination, turn taking and communication, problem solving skills and creativity. 

Playdough

Throughout week two, we have been exploring different ways to engage with playdough. We have added two colours together (green and pink which made brown), used alphabet stamps and discussed which letter we could see, utilised rolling pins and cutters to help manipulate shapes and figures, along with fingers to form small balls. Emily helped to collect some flowers and leaves from our Nature Garden, which we then added to our playdough table. Children made their own gardens and also used the flowers as a filling to create dumplings for Chinese New Year. It was lovely to see so much creativity and individuality, along with focus and pride in what they had made. 

Ms Alicia Carr

Early Childhood Teacher