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Interacting with others
Making meaning and expressing ideas
Surprise block tower - experience plan
Children take turns to place a block into a hollow tube, and once removed a tall tower of blocks is revealed for all to see!
It’s windy under here! - experience plan
In this sensory based experience, a chant is combined with waving a blanket to create ‘wind’ for children to feel.
Making biopots - experience plan
Supports children’s developing awareness of concepts of sustainability and concept specific vocabulary.
What’s in the box? - experience plan
Children take turns to discover and label various items from a box.
Walk and talk - experience plan
An everyday experience like walking provides opportunities to develop language and social skills while out and about in the local community.
Concept development and vocabulary
Surprise block tower - experience plan
Children take turns to place a block into a hollow tube, and once removed a tall tower of blocks is revealed for all to see!
Making biopots - experience plan
Supports children’s developing awareness of concepts of sustainability and concept specific vocabulary.
Where is the green sheep? - experience plan
In this book reading experience, children are engaged in conversation with an educator to develop their vocabulary, concept and print knowledge.
What’s in the box? - experience plan
Children take turns to discover and label various items from a box.
Over in the meadow - experience plan
Involves reading (or singing) a book with children and using the book to develop phonological awareness through song, rhythm and rhyme.
Bush tucker cook up - experience plan
In this cooking experience, children make wattleseed damper, a delicious recipe using Indigenous Australian ingredients.
Grammar
Barrier games (felt scenes) - experience plan
This experience involves two players taking turns to provide instructions about a hidden scene.
Barrier games (connective blocks) - experience plan
Two players take turns to provide instructions about a hidden construction.
Bathing babies - experience plan
This experience allows children to explore conversation and social skills through sociodramatic play.
Conversation and social skills
Walk and talk - experience plan
An everyday experience like walking provides opportunities to develop language and social skills while out and about in the local community.
Bathing babies - experience plan
This experience allows children to explore conversation and social skills through sociodramatic play.
Print in sociodramatic play - experience plan
This experience may be an addition to existing areas, highlighting where educators can incorporate print within already developed learning areas of sociodramatic play.
Stories and narratives
A story about me - experience plan
This storytelling experience supports children to share significant personal stories relating to themselves, their family, and their culture with peers and educators.
Three little pigs and beyond - experience plan
Develop children's higher order language skills while re-telling the familiar fairy tale The Three Little Pigs.
Red riding hood soundscape - experience plan
This experience is based on the well-known fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood.
Brown bear brown bear - experience plan
In this book reading experience, a dual language version of Brown bear brown bear is used as a platform to teach children how to draw meaning from texts.
Explanations and sharing information
Barrier games (connective blocks) - experience plan
Two players take turns to provide instructions about a hidden construction.
Sharing our culture - experience plan
Children share information about themselves, their family and cultural practices with their peers.
Higher order language
Three little pigs and beyond - experience plan
Develop children's higher order language skills while re-telling the familiar fairy tale The Three Little Pigs.
Emergent literacy
Concepts of print
Where is the green sheep? - experience plan
In this book reading experience, children are engaged in conversation with an educator to develop their vocabulary, concept and print knowledge.
Chia seed sprouts - experience plan
This experience provides opportunities for children to interact with written instructions (with educator support) in order to complete a planting activity.
Print in sociodramatic play - experience plan
This experience may be an addition to existing areas, highlighting where educators can incorporate print within already developed learning areas of sociodramatic play.
Print in other languages - experience plan
This experience may be an addition to existing areas, highlighting where educators can incorporate print within already developed learning areas of play.
Reading areas - experience plan
This experience may be an addition to existing areas, highlighting where educators can incorporate concepts of print and phonological awareness within already developed reading areas.
Fine motor
Playdough - experience plan
Supports the development of children’s fine motor strength and control, which are essential for early drawing and writing.
Edible finger paint - experience plan
Finger painting supports children’s fine motor skills and sensory development.
Making sculptures - experience plan
This familiar sensory experience supports children’s fine motor development whilst also fostering dispositions for learning such as creativity, enthusiasm, persistence and imagination.
Build and write - experience plan
The familiar and much loved experience of block construction makes for a great opportunity to incorporate language and literacy learning into play.
Posting with friends - experience plan
Gives children opportunities to develop early writing and fine motor skills during an outdoor sociodramatic play experience focused on writing and posting mail.
Watching sprouts grow - experience plan
Encouraging children to observe and record the growth of plants.
Drawing as writing - experience plan
Supporting and extending children’s drawing skills is an important way to support their early literacy and written expression.
Phonological awareness
Reading areas - experience plan
This experience may be an addition to existing areas, highlighting where educators can incorporate concepts of print and phonological awareness within already developed reading areas.
Over in the meadow - experience plan
Involves reading (or singing) a book with children and using the book to develop phonological awareness through song, rhythm and rhyme.
Hop on pop - experience plan
This book is funny and engaging for children, as well as filled with rhyme and repetition making it an effective platform for teaching specific phonological awareness skills.
Music tree - experience plan
Allows children to explore and distinguish between different sounds that objects can make.
Hello song - experience plan
This simple greeting song is a fun way to promote children’s understanding of syllables and support their understanding of the linguistic diversity amongst their peers and educators.
Bee bee bumble bee - experience plan
This experience encourages children to explore different sounds (specifically the initial sounds of their names) through song.
The sounds in my name - experience plan
Intentional teaching of the letter-sound relationships and identifying sounds in words. You can apply this experience to many contexts where children write their names.
Phonics
Bee bee bumble bee - experience plan
This experience encourages children to explore different sounds (specifically the initial sounds of their names) through song.
The sounds in my name - experience plan
Intentional teaching of the letter-sound relationships and identifying sounds in words. You can apply this experience to many contexts where children write their names.
Making meaning and expressing ideas
Bush tucker cook up - experience plan
In this cooking experience, children make wattleseed damper, a delicious recipe using Indigenous Australian ingredients.
Red riding hood soundscape - experience plan
This experience is based on the well-known fairytale, Little Red Riding Hood.
Brown bear brown bear - experience plan
In this book reading experience, a dual language version of Brown bear brown bear is used as a platform to teach children how to draw meaning from texts.
Build and write - experience plan
The familiar and much loved experience of block construction makes for a great opportunity to incorporate language and literacy learning into play.
Exploring and creating texts
Posting with friends - experience plan
Gives children opportunities to develop early writing and fine motor skills during an outdoor sociodramatic play experience focused on writing and posting mail.
Watching sprouts grow - experience plan
Encouraging children to observe and record the growth of plants.
Drawing as writing - experience plan
Supporting and extending children’s drawing skills is an important way to support their early literacy and written expression.
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