Learning Through Play - Week One

In Team Awa we have Learning Through Play time most afternoons after afternoon play. 

Learning through play is particularly powerful as the children will not only learn our focus skill or knowledge for the week but are continually developing their creative thinking, oral language, social skills and fine and gross motor skills as well as being exposed to authentic literacy and numeracy contexts as they play.

We will have a different focus each week, this week for the first week of school we were focused on learning to use the equipment and beginning to develop the social skills the students need. 

We have particularly been focused on "Stop, think, act" to remind us to stop and think about what might happen before we do something so we can make a smart choice. 

In the photos below you can see the children practicing these skills as they played together, shared the toys and took turns (I even overheard the phrase "stop and think" being used a few times by the children)