Preschool

A Message FROM THE PRESCHOOL TEAM

Hi families,

We hope you are all staying safe and keeping well while we are all in lockdown. We will miss seeing your smiling faces each day.

We have put together some interesting activities for you to do at home with your family which you can find in the learning grid below. You can choose only a few each day and those which fit around your household. This has also been emailed to you and uploaded to our ClassDojo.

We would also love you to share what you are doing with us through Class Dojo.

We will see you soon and remember, keep playing!

Evan, Lavy, Shamus, Marie and Karen

LEARNING GRID - WEEK 3 TERM 4 - 18-22 OCTOBER

Week 3 Term 4 Grid

some of our favourite educational shows and stories

CLASS DOJO & Google meets

Class Dojo

We will be using Class Dojo for our way to share videos, stories, songs, and also as a portal for you to share what your child has been doing at home with you all.

If you are unsure how to use the portfolio section on Class Dojo, please click on the link to the left to see a tutorial on how this feature works.

Google Meets

Each morning, all students will be required to participate in their class’ Google Meet to check in and for attendance purposes. This meet will only be a short, 15 minute time to check in with students and mark the roll.

The middle of the day Google Meets are designed for teachers to be available online to support and clarify the learning tasks for students.

Loose parts play

You might see as part of our learning during remote learning, that we have activities involving "loose parts".


Loose parts play is any play that involves regular items around the house that can be used to explore, create, and design.

Loose parts play draws on children's imagination, creativity and problem-solving.


You could use simple items like:

* natural materials from your yard (like leaves, sticks, bark, gumnuts, pine cones, stones)

* building and construction materials (like planks of wood, nails, hammers, PVC piping etc)

* milk crates, buckets, baskets, cardboard boxes, ropes, tyres, pallets, tyres

* kitchen items (like buttons, kitchen cooking items, pots and pans, tongs, whisks, mashers, measuring cups and spoons, spatulas etc)


You might find amazingly wonderfully creative things lying around your house.

“All children love to interact with variables such as materials and shapes; smells and other physical phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism and gravity; media such as gases and fluids; sounds, music and motion; chemical interactions cooking and fire, and other people, and animals, plants, words, concepts and ideas. With all these things all children love to play, experiment, discover and invent and have fun. All these things have one thing in common, which is variables or ‘loose parts’”

Simon Nicholson