Fledglings (1E)

By Tatiana Botrel, Jane Teh, Vivianne Zeaiter and Joyce Matsui

Specialists Classes – Dance and Drama with Laura

It is a delight to see our wonderful Fledglings children settling quickly after drop-off, with some already eager to begin their day. They are enjoying partaking in our group times, as we sing our welcoming and goodbye song “Tick- Tok”, as well as using their counting fingers to discover how many friends joined us in the classroom.

Recently, we introduced our special classes, “Music”, “Dance and Drama” and “Playball”. This week we observed confident involvement and enthusiasm in the “Dance and Drama'' class. The children especially enjoyed the parachute games, singing and dancing while following Laura’s lead. The class supports the children in developing their imagination, as there is a lot of wonder in different scenarios, for example, train rides, picnics, beach time, animals and more.

Celebrating Love

The Fledglings Term One Provocation is “Celebrating Life”. Previously, the children helped us to create lanterns for Lunar New Year, which we used to decorate the room. The children enjoyed looking at their creations on the wall and talking about them with their teachers.

February is a month devoted to celebrating love: family love, pets love, friendship love, love everywhere, in different shapes and forms. As teachers, we seek to find learning opportunities in everything we do. We try to locate, acknowledge, and teach children about things when the opportunity arises. Monthly or annual celebrations are wonderful to explore.

Valentine’s Day can be taken as an opportunity to introduce children to the concept of expressing their feelings towards someone they care about. For this special and important celebration, we filled a large trough with red coloured tinsel and paper, gold pebbles and mixed flowers’ petals to explore love by smelling, touching, and feeling. Children explored this activity with their teachers talking with them about the flowers' lovely fragrance and the petals and pebbles' soft texture.

We also enjoyed listening to love songs such as “Love in the Air”, “ Skidamarink a dink a dink” and “Twinkle star”, while popping bubbles in our dance party. We read special books about love, for example, “The little book of Love” by Trace Moroney and “I’ll do anything for you” by Karen Katz.

At the Mini Atelier, we extended the children’s interest in visual arts with the use of paints. The Fledglings stamped love hearts on the paper by dipping heart cookie cutters into white paint and pressing them on top of a piece of pink paper.

Early Years Learning Framework, V2.0, 2022:

Outcome 1- Children develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth. Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.

Outcome 2- Children develop a sense of connectedness to groups and communities and an understanding of their reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary as active and informed citizens.

Outcome 3- Children become strong in their social, emotional and mental wellbeing.

Outcome 4- Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials.

Outcome 5- Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.

Fledglings (1E)