Launching into Learning
Term 4 2019
Welcome
Welcome to the Exeter Primary School's Launching into Learning Newsletter. Here you will find the latest information about upcoming events and excursions, photos of children playing and learning, and practical information about ways to support your child at home.
Summer Water Fun
Where: Exeter Primary School Pool
When: February 2020
Who: Children from 6 months to 4 years
Cost: Free
More information about our Summer Water Fun program will be available in the New Year.
Why is it Important to Attend a Launching into Learning Program?
B-4 School Playgroup
B-4 School Playgroup is suitable for children from babies to 4 years. These play-based sessions focus on developing children’s social skills, fine and gross motor skills and early literacy and numeracy skills. These sessions are a fantastic way for parents, babies and young children to meet others in their community.
"I'm developing my finger strength."
"I'm learning about the importance of making marks."
I'm learning to solve problems."
"I'm designing a carpark for my car."
"I'm experimenting with role play."
"I'm enjoying some Christmas craft."
"We are learning to share and cooperate."
"I'm learning about facial features and body parts."
"I'm learning to take apart, assemble, invent and construct using items of interest."
"I'm learning to complete simple puzzles."
"I'm learning about floating and sinking during water play."
"I'm learning about cause and effect."
Gym Fun with the Exeter Childcare Centre
Every Wednesday children from Exeter Childcare Centre come to Exeter Primary to participate in our fantastic Gym Fun program. Children have the opportunity to try our soft foam obstacle course, balancing beams, climbing equipment, ball pit, bikes, scooters and the rollercoaster. They are also able to play with balls, hoops, beanbags, skittles, basketball hoops, soccer goals, trampolines and much more.
They are learning to...
· be happy, healthy, safe and connected to others
· engage in increasingly complex sensory-motor skills and movement patterns
· combine gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity
· use their sensory capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration, skill and purpose to explore and respond to their world
· demonstrate spatial awareness and orient themselves, moving around and through their environments confidently and safely
· manipulate equipment and manage tools with increasing competence and skill
· show increasing independence
· show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others
BELONGING, BEING & BECOMING The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing - Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing
Physical Skills
· Running and walking smoothly
· Balancing
· Jumping from or over low objects
· Throwing, catching and rolling balls
· Climbing up steps one foot at a time
· Climbing equipment with increasing agility
· Riding balance bikes
Social, Cognitive, Language and Emotional Skills
· Cooperating and sharing when playing
· Comprehending and following simple instructions
· Learning through watching and copying peers
· Exploring and manipulating objects
· Independence
Children are learning to...
· recognise and communicate their bodily needs
· be happy, healthy, safe and connected
to others
· engage in increasingly complex sensory-motor skills and movement patterns
· combine gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity
· use their sensory capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration,
skill and purpose to explore and respond
to their world
· demonstrate spatial awareness and orient themselves, moving around and through their environments confidently and safely
· manipulate equipment and manage tools with increasing competence and skill
· show increasing independence and safety for themselves and others
· show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others
Brain Building - How you can help at home
"Child-adult relationships that are responsive and attentive—with lots of back and forth interactions—build a strong foundation in a child’s brain for all future learning and development. This is called “serve and return,” and it takes two to play! Follow these 5 steps to practice serve and return with your child."
5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return, Centre for the Developing Child, Harvard University,
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/5-steps-for-brain-building-serve-and-return/
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Riverbend Excursion
Helpful Information
Bop, Bounce and Bubbles Disco
Families had a lovely time at the Term 4 Launching into Learning Disco. They danced to music, sang familiar songs, played parachute games, popped bubbles and played with over 100 balloons.