Often as parents we view Early Childhood as the environment for children to learn shapes, colours and letters from a young age.
However, the importance of Early Childhood is Play, and through play is when our intentional teaching and learning practices take place.
How?
Our professional team of educators understand and create meaningful learning experiences to encourage children to learn and explore literacy and numeracy in every possible experience and activity. For example, when your child is eating their morning tea, our educators will facilitate a conversation to discuss the different shapes, colours and sizes of fruit and when your 3 year old child pours their morning cup of milk we discuss mathematical concepts such as empty, half full, full, heavy and light.
Our Inspired Kindergarten believes letter recognition is a key step in a child’s ability to learn to read and write.
Each and every fortnight our Kindergarten children focus on a a letter from the alphabet. To support children to explore and learn in an environment that is suitable to their development needs and interests our team of educators provide a variety of experiences to encourage children’s letter awareness.
Activities may include the following:
- Puzzles that represent the letter of the fortnight for example Koala puzzle for the Letter K
- Group conversation where together we brainstorm words that begin with the corresponding letter
- Tracing opportunities to encourage children to explore with print
- Creating a representation of the specific letter with a variety of recycled materials
It is of great importance for children to not only recognise and write letters, but to also understand the different sound of each letter. Our Inspired Kindergarten children engage in a variety of rich learning experiences to discover phonics and you too can enjoy this learning opportunity at home.
Interactive learning opportunities for your family to explore at home:
Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates
Join Captain Seasalt and his curious band of pirates as they explore the 26 Islands of the alphabet. An adventure in the ABCs awaits on each island, but more importantly, so does a treasure! Climb aboard for a vocabulary-building adventure on the high seas!
The Phonics Song
A simple, effective variety of songs to help teach your child the sounds of the alphabet.
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Days with Grey
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.
– Fred Rogers –
