First Steps Centre

Reminders:

• Please bring a named warm jacket and each day as the weather cools as we will still be going outside to play.
• Kinder photos June 14th - 20th - Please use the link sent previously on Seesaw to sign up to this. 
• A lot of our community (parents, children, staff) have been unwell lately. This illness has been lingering around for a while and is just a gentle reminder to please keep your child home if they are unwell to give them the best opportunity to bounce back. 
• Allergies: just a friendly reminder to please not pack any nut or nut products into your child’s lunchbox, we also have allergies to kiwi fruit and egg, so please refrain from packing this in your child's lunchbox. 

Four Year Old News

Building with bricks has been collaborative and there has been lots of extension. 

Lego building has seen children extending their communication skills and collaborative social skills. Jane (our student) set up an activity for children to explore printing- marking into a piece of foam board and then rolling paint and placing paper over the top to leave a print. 

To further explore our identity, the Budja class looked at how to draw a face and the features we have. Using a print out of their faces, the children traced over the features they could see using some clear paper. We also have been looking at Australian animals and the features they have. We look forward to discussing endangered species as well as learning some of the First Nations’ names for the animals. 

Three Year Old News

The children have learnt about the symbol of native animals’ footprint in bushland and the Victorian road signs of these animals (Visual language within community) .

We read Lucy Goozey by Margaret Wild and Ann James to encourage children share and talk about their worries (Learning to build emotional wellbeing).