It is a new school year filled with wonder, curiosity and hope. Many children have joyfully reconnected with familiar friends and we have had many new faces join our Early Years community as well. As we embark upon our first Unit…
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Fostering Children’s Passions: Setting Up A Restaurant
After observing the children engaging in ‘restaurant role play‘ over a period of a few weeks, it was clear that this was yet another wonderful opportunity to encourage and foster their interest and embark on a class inquiry into restaurants. Following some…
Developing Language and Mathematical Skills using Stories
As a class we read and enjoyed Julia Donaldson’s picture book ‘Stick Man.’ The rhyme within the text is simple and repetitive, allowing the children to join in with the ‘reading’ and predict and identify rhyming words within the story….
Exploring Wood Work with Early Years Children
As part of our transdisciplinary unit, How We Express Ourselves, we have been inquiring into ways we can communicate our ideas and feelings through play. The children have been building their understanding, through many exciting experiences and interactions with each…
Mathematics in the Early Years – Data Handling
In Early Years 2 we are learning that data can be recorded, organised, represented and summarised in a variety of ways to highlight similarities, differences and trends. After children from the Kindergarten classes visited us to ask us some survey…
Block Play in Early Childhood Development
In our class blocks have been a hotspot of inspiration and learning. Playing with blocks keeps children very engaged and interested. Using blocks creates challenges and repeated use inspires children to be more creative and work on more complex structures….
Exploring our Sense of Touch
Unit of Inquiry Who We Are: ‘We use our bodies to learn about the world’. The children in EY2 Red have been exploring touching different materials and objects in the classroom, school and at Waldkinder. One morning when the children…
Inspiring Interest in Growing Plants
Throughout the year, as part of our inquiry into the ways seasons affect life, we have been observing weather based changes. We thought springtime would be a perfect opportunity to explore plants in the classroom. We hope that involving children in growing plants provides a chance to…