tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69222509541507393542024-02-07T19:55:33.020-08:00NAC Early LearningThe Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre is committed to providing young children and their families a place to participate in positive, culturally rich, research-based early literacy activities, outdoor learning and fun.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6922250954150739354.post-84505570488109681452014-12-12T11:46:00.000-08:002014-12-12T11:46:32.605-08:00Week of Dec 8th 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week during our Early Literacy Drop-In we played Musical Letters. The chairs were set up in a circle, each with an alphabet letter. The children danced around the letters to the drum music - when the drumming stopped the children had to write their letter on a white board. These boys were motivated and managed to practice writing lots of letters while having some fun! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During our story circle we heard a Christmas story about a girl who asked for 3 gifts: </span><span style="font-size: large;">one </span><span style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: italic;">small</b><span style="font-size: large;"> gift</span>, <span style="font-size: large;">one</span></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> <i><b>medium</b></i></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">gift and one</span><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"> <i>large</i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> gift. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We also had a great time during our Outdoor Drop-In - we started with some physical work, tracing around tires and making patterns. Young children need a great deal of practice using their whole body to make marks, it is an important step in being able to write smaller with pencil on paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After all of this writing we decided to move the tires to see our patterns. The children immediately noticed that our marks looked like a snowman. This motivated us to add some details as well as create a second snowman out of found objects in our playground!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Early Literacy Morning on Wednesday 8:45-12:00</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6922250954150739354.post-31197906144681427792014-12-03T15:34:00.001-08:002014-12-03T15:34:59.744-08:00Dec 3rd - Early Literacy Morning<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1RxFSFlMEmSg6f6PWyMouaLOrnpp-bolMsrwksoAyAx6exovYOzcz0H7lnc6Zk0pGXnGrpYxaA2tpI-NZFFvoFdUlBVQ7WQkGBiduxZOd9p_eQdh2cZLGRh3wD8CdTLLu4EAd9rChNhQ/s1600/light.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1RxFSFlMEmSg6f6PWyMouaLOrnpp-bolMsrwksoAyAx6exovYOzcz0H7lnc6Zk0pGXnGrpYxaA2tpI-NZFFvoFdUlBVQ7WQkGBiduxZOd9p_eQdh2cZLGRh3wD8CdTLLu4EAd9rChNhQ/s1600/light.JPG" height="400" width="298" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning we added a projector and alphabet letters to our learning space. The children were immediately interested and explored with letters sounds, letter names and even some simple words. We also used our gross motor skills to trace the GIANT letters projected onto the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later we heard a new story about Portia the Polar Bear. </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Can you remember some of the things that Portia likes to eat? </i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The children used puppets, sang songs and played the drums. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Our Early Literacy Drop-In Morning is every Wednesday from 8:45-12:00 with our story circle starting at 9:45.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week saw two fun Drop-In sessions on Wednesday and Friday. During our outdoor morning we set up pipes with the wood blocks and invited children to explore using small balls and cars. We also played a fun number game using basketballs and pylons. The children were given open-ended challenges such as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Earlier in the week we heard 3 stories during our Drop-In Literacy Morning and did several activities to develop language and pre-writing skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">All of the children had a turn drumming today with our visitor Jacqueline Watts. We learned a new song and practiced keeping a steady 1-beat with the music. You can listen here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Rhythm and beat are important Early Reading skills - at home you can encourage your child to practise this by clapping or by using pots and pans. Practice drumming out the beats to names of family members or with everyday objects: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">ce-re-l, ta-ble, wa-ter, sun-glass-es...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The logs were also out today and the children used dump trucks to transport the wood. Their play evolved as they used their imagination to plan what they would build. Following the lead of our learners we will add some hard hats and clipboard to the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Donna, the Literacy Lady, was here on Fifth St. for our Wednesday morning drop-in. She shared Elder Mabel Mitchell's version of "When Seagull Stole the Sun." The boys and girls were re-introduced to the characters and we all learned some hul'qumi'num words to go along with the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Story-telling teaches children of all ages about communication skills, about emotions and allows them to build their vocabulary. This week we made sea-urchins using play dough and toothpicks. We also did some alphabet sewing and some sponge painting! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A big thank you to our Literacy Lady, Donna, for bringing in so many props for our story-telling session on Wednesday. Stories are always so much more engaging when children have real-life objects to touch and feel. Today we spent some time sharing ideas about where light comes from, why light is important as well as how we might feel if we had no light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today we continued with our salmon theme. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The children worked on their pre-writing skills by drawing eggs and connecting each egg with the flowing river. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also made spawning beds with shells and rocks - children practiced letter names and sounds with this fun puppet game.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As always our Story Lady Donna shared 3 more stories and this week we were SOOOOO lucky to taste some real salmon! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Keeping with our motto... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Three stories a day, that's the way!" </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">...Donna shared 3 salmon stories.</span></div>
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