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Inside Area - Puzzle Play, Panga

 

Learning objectives:

  • Through puzzle play children learn and develop logic, reasoning, concentration and memory skills.
  • Children learn contextual problem solving strategies, use more deliberate and accurate movements continues to refine their hand eye coordination and small motor skills.
  • A diversity of puzzles supports children awareness of their own culture.
  • Discrimination and classification support the development of pre literacy and numeracy skills as children sort, match and follow sequences.
  • Children increase confidence with familiar and unfamiliar puzzles across a wide range of subjects.
  • Children will develop a sense of fun alongside development of math skills such as shapes, size, dimension and pattern.
  • Children develop concentration and perseverance as they complete an activity and see the results of their work.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Inside Area - Music, Pūoro

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  • While interacting with music children learn more about their bodies and how they move such as timing and rhythm.
  • The use of instruments, action songs and finger plays refine motor skills.
  • Children learn to cooperate as they sing, listen to and respond to each other and the music
  • Literacy skills develop with an increasing awareness of how words such as ones on a song chart relate to sound (phonics)
  • Children are giving the opportunity to explore the use of instruments in appropriate ways.
  • Children learning music through role modeling and participation in music activities
  • Music rosters enjoyment in a variety of music activities such as finger plays, listening, singing, games of performances,
  • Children will develop affirmation of individuality and self esteem as children engage in original and spontaneous music and movement
  • Music and dance introduces an awareness of their own and other cultures
  • Music and movement encourages a release of physical and emotional energy, expression and creativity
  • Music enhances speech, vocabulary and language skills as their repertoire of rhymes, songs and tunes increase
  • Music helps extend concentration, memory and discrimination skills such as fast and slow
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Inside Area - Family Play – Takāro Whānua

 

Learning objectives:

 

  • Opportunities to act out real or anticipated experiences such as anxieties about a new baby
  • Opportunity to learn about their own and other cultures
  • Supports the development of imagination through dramatic play
  • Promotes speech language development and communication skills
  • Encourages learning through fictional and non fictional role play
  • Relationship skill increase as a range of conflict resolution strategies are developed
  • Mastery and motor skills development
  • Children develop self help skills modeling real life experiences
  • Learning to negotiate and co0operate
  • Increasing ability and confidence using contextual language and tone to portray meaning or character
  • Children can share or combine knowledge they may be teacher or learner
  • Increasing ability to understand alternative points of view as they learn about sharing and cooperation.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Inside Area - Blocks Play – Poro Rākau

Learning objectives

 

  • Children learn about the world making sense of what they know or see such as building farms and houses.

  • Learning to share and take turns

  • Increasing sense of autonomy, self esteem and respect for their own and others work

  • Pre-numeracy skills developed as children increasingly recognize patterns and symmetry in the wider world

  • Development of motor skills

  • Builds relationship skill including confidence, self esteem, respect for others work and cooperation

  • Helps children become resourceful and creative problem solvers when they work with limited materials and within the static confines of the properties of blocks

  • Extends imagination and creativity

  • Increase mathematical and scientific understanding as children count, match, sort, group, add, subtract, divide, measure and classify as they recognise symmetry, patterns, volume, area, depth, width and height.

  • Children have fun

  • Opportunities for social interaction working with or alongside others

  • Development of conflict resolution skill as children share ideas and limited material

  • Develops an understanding about construction theories such a balance, gravity and geometric shape.

     

     

     

Inside Area - Stories – Kōrero Paki

Learning objectives:

 

  • Children learn appropriate ways to express emotion through character role models

  • Develops imagination and creativity

  • Supports the awareness of own and other cultures

  • Children develop self esteem and confidence as they participate in and tell stories

  • Promotes speech, language development and communication skills

  • Stimulates problem solving through the diversity of story characters, social situations and settings

  • Understands that text and pictures carry the meaning of the story

  • Develops pre-reading skills required for literacy such as text is read from left to right and top to bottom

  • Develops and understanding of real life experiences with links to familiar an unfamiliar

  • Children learn how to access information

  • Extends vocabulary and builds comprehension

  • Growing appreciation for a range of stories and a variety or genres

  • Supports and encourages the inters of the child

  • Children enjoy a sense of well-being, relation and enjoyment

  • Supports the development of skills to aid in exploration of the wider world such as research.

     

     

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