Monthly Archives: June 2012

Bike and scooter safety day

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Road safety is an important area of learning for all children and also a great way to promote social and emotional skills development and active play. It has become a tradition for us to have a special visit from the Crossing Supervisor  (aka the Lollipop Lady ) to hear about her job  and to think about being safe. It also helps to build the children’s  community awareness and is part of the transition to school program that we run – as some children will be meeting Judy and her co- Lollipop Ladies on a daily basis next year. The preschool year is such an important time for the children’s learning and development especially around these sorts of social learning.

As you can see our educator Mrs bell also brought her bike in to give everyone a closer look at it and we discussed her safety vest and helmet. The children enjoyed the day and we are grateful to Judy for taking time out of her busy working day to visit and help us. Thanks, Judy!

A holiday destination for Funky Monkey…

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Hi there to everyone who visits our blog! We would like to send our monkey, Funky, off on a holiday somewhere overseas – he has been to Atlanta in the USA and to Japan, but we don’t know where else he could go. We have done a swap with a kinder in those places, now we are looking for another kinder or preschool to do a swap with – we would love to host your kinder friend while you have Funky visit you. If you think this might work then please email Louise to discuss arranging an exchange.

leachwlp@bigpond.com

Letters for Grandparents’ Morning

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This week we have been writing letters to send to our grandparents (or special friends) inviting them to the kinder for Grandparents’ Day.

After we have written our letters (well, signed them and drawn a picture), we walk down the street to post them.

This has become a tradition that the children –  and grandparents! – look forward to each year. And we have learnt to ask parents to put the name the child calls their grandparent by on the envelope – children can’t always remember what they call them but we want to help them get it right.

The incidental literacy concepts and skills about writing our name, reading the grandparents’ address etc,  and the maths involved in getting that big piece of paper into that narrow envelope, are practised wuithin a totally meaningful context – no need for worksheets!

This morning it was time to walk down and post our letters.

(We are lucky to have parents who can accompany us – and who don’t mind a bit of meandering to notice things along the way.)

Then everyone got to post their letter.

Despite the digital age into which these children have been born, they still love to write and send a real letter!

 

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