The Link - Hillsmeade Primary School

Early Learning Centre

You can contact the ELC or pop in for a visit for any enrolment inquires.

Phone: 9704 6313 - Option ELC

Email: elc@hillsmeade.vic.edu.au

 

 

What is happening in the ELC

Our Learning

Throughout this fortnight, the children have been undertaking learning in the following areas:

 

Reading
  • Reading story books and reflecting up on them-Who, What, When, Why, Where? 
  • Reading stories and developing an understanding of first, middle and end.
  • Listening to and deciphering rhyming words in books
  • Letter sound recognition, reading Milos birthday surprise 
Writing  
  • Children’s sign in sheets 
  • Alphabet, number charts and first dictionaries on offer at the drawing table
  • Creating symbols to express meaning 
  • Tommy Turtle writing-letter formation
STEM
  • Categorizing and sorting natural and non-natural items
  • Programming and decoding using Bee Bots
Inquiry
  • “What are living things?”
  • “What do we need to live?” 
  • Exploring nature and the environment 

     
Social & emotional learning
  • Children have continued to use the Zones of Regulation and place their images on the coloured zones as they feel different emotions
  • Continued to implement calming techniques and use the calm down spaces
  • Explore the concept of gratitude, though stories and guided meditation

Celebration of Learning 

Exploring our natural environment.
Using technology to research information about ladybugs.
Representational drawing of natural items.
Using Bee bots to explore programming and decoding.
Exploring our natural environment.
Using technology to research information about ladybugs.
Representational drawing of natural items.
Using Bee bots to explore programming and decoding.