Today Our Theme Was Picnic Day!

Today our theme was “Picnic Day!”

Today’s we used our imaginations to take us out into the great outdoors for some relaxing time under a shady tree. We envisaged all the healthy food we would make to take on our picnic (and prepared it all by ourselves!) and then we got to enjoy some well-deserved ‘R and R’. We were very active during our foot story though, as our mice encountered some other wildlife who wanted to share their picnic food!

We saw bugs and butterflies and took home great memories of our day in the sun.

The books we looked at today were:

“The Crunching Munching Caterpillar” By Sheridan Cain

“I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track” By Joshua Prince

“Too Many Shoes” By Koala Books

Fiction Factory experiences combine fine and gross motor movement and balance to help children achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity including dance, creative movement and drama.

In accordance with

‘The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, Being, Belonging and Becoming’

Fiction factory educators assist children to:

· Learn to interact with others with care, empathy and respect through cooperation (outcome 1)

· Explore aspects of identity through role play (outcome 1)

· Develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities through sharing stories (outcome 2)

· Express ideas, negotiate roles and collaborate to achieve goals (outcome 2)

· Become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing through play based learning (outcome 3)

· Share humour, happiness and satisfaction through energetic activity (outcome 3)

· Build on their emerging autonomy through co-constructed learning (outcome 4)

· Discuss their own ideas and understandings, feelings and hypotheses (outcome 4)

· Engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts (outcome 5)

If you have any questions about our program please call us on 1300 139 631.