Early Learning Centre

Pre-Reading : 

Clapping out the syllables in their name.

Developing visual tracking through playing catch and kicking a ball to a friend (Visual tracking skills)

Borrowing books from the ELC library.

Looking for the story contained in the illustrations of a book.

Pre-Writing: 

Signing themselves in on arrival each day.

Developing and refining their fine motor skills through a range of activities including threading, peg boards, playdough, cutting with scissors, tearing paper, pipe cleaners drawing and painting. 

Using Tommy Turtle to develop their understanding of how to form letters.

Developing their core strength through climbing, balancing, stabilizing, dancing, jumping and running.

Painting and drawing at the easel.

STEM : 

Children begin to develop an understanding of complex patterns

Children explore cause and effect, through marble runs or lining dominos up and knocking them over.

Inquiry : 

Exploring the Unit of Inquiry: Sharing the Planet. 

Creating an understanding of living and nonliving things through group discussions.

Discovering the key characteristics of living things.

Being able to identify living and nonliving things.

Life cycle of bees, butterflies, plants and insects. 

Social & emotional learning : 

Self check-in. 

Exploring emotions, with the zones of regulation

Cosmic kids yoga