Welcome to Term 3's Learning Stories!
A part of our play-based learning program is to observe children learning through play and - where needed - to join in the play as well! I help the children through discussion and play to enhance their language skills, and make connections to their learning, using appropriate curriculum language.
Ship
ahoy!
Engineering
Oliver, Abel, Liam, Caleb and Ramon, you were all
playing so responsibly together in the sandpit.
You were each building on each other’s ideas, and before you knew it, you ended up with a huge cruise ship, complete with a private pool, and an engine that required a lot of technical input – pipes for fuel, a special hole for the steam to escape, and something for the fuel (water) to be in. There was a lot of technical design going on, and you modified your equipment to get the desired end result.
Oliver is driving
the ship. Liam tells me that the 'steam' will
escape from under this pot.
Liam is helping
Caleb put in more fuel.
Caleb and Ramon
are working on the private pool that was below the main deck.
I loved the way that you all incorporated or
visitor, Caleb, into your play.
We had a great discussion about where in the world
your cruise ship could go – and I think Fiji was the most popular choice!
Curriculum areas: literacy – oral language, measurement, technology.
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, managing self, participation.
Happy Birthday!
Creative
imagination
Rafaella, Mia-Leigh, Rosie and Melissa had a
wonderful play birthday party! You
worked so well together – making little cakes, singing the birthday song,
taking turns (at being the birthday girl) and having great imagination for your
present! You were all telling each other
of your own birthday parties you have had, and what you did at your party, what
you ate and the presents you had received.
You all made it sound and feel like a real birthday
party!
Tell me about your present Rafaella? “It’s a lovely fluffy bunny! And it’s grey!”.
You all had a great time imagining and describing your present in the empty
box! Well done!
Curriculum areas: literacy – oral language, number, arts (music).
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, managing self, participation.
DESIGN with Edwin
Edwin, you have a real urge for design and on this
day you wanted to make a car using the hot glue gun and materials made
available to you.
You were so focussed on your project Edwin, and
you were also very patient with adding all the parts on. You remembered to use the extra finger (chop
stick) so that you would not burn yourself with the glue. What a great listener you are!
Your designing urge has encouraged some of your
friends to all start building things using the glue gun. Thank you Edwin!
Curriculum areas: literacy – oral language, measurement, technology.
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, using symbols, managing self.
Pumpkin
Soup!
The best you’ve ever tasted!
Creative imagination
One of the most loved stories read - almost weekly - to Room 16 is Pumpkin Soup, by Helen Cooper. The children got some inspiration from this story for their sandpit kitchen!
Paea, Eva, Rafaella and Rosie were ‘cooking’ in the sandpit kitchen. It was lovely to see the way you were all playing together, working out the soup recipe, measuring the ingredients, and taking turns at getting the water (for mixing). Wouldn’t it be great if the water tap was closer to the sandpit?! A lot of measuring took place, and you were all enjoying the sensation of the wet sand, and how ‘gloopy’ it was.
A pipkin of salt! Rosie measuring and mixing.
Rosie,
you were making special cup cakes of your own – but also tasted the soup and
later shared your concoction with the others!
Paea, Eva and Rafaella making pumpkin soup.
Edwin's buried treasure.
Edwin, you were super busy
burying treasure for someone to find.
You marked the spot with a little shell, and you also measured it was
four of your feet (end on end) from the wall to the shell spot.
Curriculum areas: Literacy – oral language, measurement, technology.
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, managing self,
participation.
Hey!
Let’s make a tent house!
Design and engineering
Radeesh and Zain you made
an awesome tent house! You both work
together really well, and I liked the way you took your time to secure the tent
roof with the pegs.
You have been
learning about structures and you have had many times of problem solving when
your tent has collapsed.
You made the tent stronger each re-build!
I loved the way you
designed a secret entry through the space that converts to a window. Well done future designers!
Curriculum areas: literacy – oral language, number, technology.
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, managing self, participation.
Shopping
time!
Real-life
experiences
Ramon, Radeesh and Edwin, you had a great shopping experience in Room
16’s Shop. Edwin, you carefully selected your
items, and took them to the check-out.
Check-out operators Ramon and Radeesh.
Radeesh scanning the bar codes.
Radeesh, you were scanning each item, until Edwin noticed that the tuna tin did not have a bar code.
Edwin drawing on a bar-code (missing on the tuna tin!).
Edwin, you fixed the problem!
Radeesh did a great job adding up all the groceries on Mr Madjar’s abacus.
Ramon is writing a receipt.
Ramon carefully writes out the receipt – Edwin was a happy customer!
Curriculum areas: literacy – oral language, number, technology.
Key competencies: thinking, relating to others, using text and
symbols, managing self, participation.
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