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Exploring letters and numbers
Recently our older tamariki have been really interested in letters and numbers. The teachers have provided a range of opportunities to extend their learning in this area. One of the experiences the tamariki loved getting involved in was making a shared piece of artwork with a whole range of lines, squiggles and shapes.
They also experimented with different kinds of writing tools. Another fun experience that many of the tamariki had fun doing, was going on an alphabet hunt around the playground. One of our teachers wrote all the letters of the alphabet in chalk around the whole outdoor area and gave the tamariki some clipboards with the English alphabet on sheets of paper. They marked off the letters on their clipboards as they found them around the playground. The tamariki worked together and helped each other find some of the letters