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Continued learning at home

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We are very excited to play and learn with you online. Though it is a bit different from face to face. We really appreciate your contributions towards children learning and development and we are feeling privileged to work with you and our children through this online programme and able to celebrate every moment of children’s growth and development during this period.

Our MANAWA ROOM:

Bula Vinaka! It’s Fijian Language Week. The theme of the week is ‘Noqu Vosa Me’u Bua Taka’- My language, Learn it , Speak it, Live it! Today we set up a provocation for the tamariki based on a Fijian theme. We are also practicing some Fijian words and songs. If you know Fijian songs or words/phrases or experiences please do share with us here. Looking forward to meeting you all on zoom tomorrow.

Young children’s engagement in painting and other art forms has an impressive impact on brain development. When finger painting or holding a brush or pencil children gain muscle control and develop their fine motor skills which sets the foundation for learning to write.

Children develop their hand eye co-ordination by controlling where they want to make brush strokes or pencil marks. At first very young children will explore what marks they can make and as they gain confidence and control, they will purposefully plan for their marks to represent their ideas and feelings.

We are learning about Fijian language and culture! To end Fijian language week, we have a short video of hello song in Fijian  from our little bubble at the centre for our tamariki at home.

We hope our tamariki will enjoy doing the action song as much as we did.

RewaRewa bubble here at Best-Start Avondale has been keeping very busy! We have been very productive this week by cleaning our beautiful garden, exploring the insects that we found in our garden and began planting our vegetable seeds in mini pots! Science and nature play helps children learn to observe things closely, explain their thinking and communicate their ideas. They learn to classify, measure, and predict. They create theories and try them out. They can experiment to see what happens and explain their findings in their own way. All this enriches their understanding of the physical world around them

Continuing the learning at home

Take a nature walk – observe what your children notice in nature and focus your conversations around this.

Plant seeds – make a vegetable or a flower garden - talk about germination, plant growth, what the plant needs to grow, what habitat it needs, how it produces flowers etc. Be careful that the things you are planting are not poisonous! Plant a fruit tree and observe how it changes and grows over the seasons.