Modbury Kindergarten

🍃Kaurna Country offered many gifts this term.🍃

This concept of transformation is very close to the world of children because they experience it themselves each day as they get older, and as they grow.

“How did the bush bread grow?” H
“What is the dough eating?!” A
“Maybe it’s in the air” S

A little experiment ensued 🧪

Often at Kindy children organise how to play games, invent games and redesign games. Games are a learning context that offer children opportunities to explore skills and concepts.

Two children sat together looking closely at each other’s drawings.
“What is that?” S “You have to guess!” A
“I don’t know,” S “Guess!” A
“Hmmm… is it your brother?” S “Nooo,” A

The children were describing their pictures to one another without giving away the answer. Their laughter and excitement created curiosity amongst other children. Soon the table was busy with children drawing mums, dads, grandparents, fish and each other.

What began as a question became the children’s own version of ‘Guess Who?’ By pickup time, families had become part of the game too, laughing as they recognised themselves in the children’s drawings. The experience highlighted not only the children’s literacy and expressive language skills, but also the joy that emerges when children’s ideas are given time and space to evolve collaboratively.
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