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“ Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold” - Joseph Chilton Pearce The children have been busy running our Vet Hospital this week as they engage with a range of children playing together. Items such as x-rays, dress ups, phones, keyboard, clipboards, teddies and stethoscopes are provided as provocations to the children to use in their play. In dramatic play children have the opportunity to: - develop their receptive and expressive language skills (listening and speaking). - build their attention and engagement capacity - learn how to negotiate other children and their own thoughts, strategies and ideas - develop their social skills; entering play, leading and following in the play, sharing ideas in their play - develop abstract thinking skills - pre numeracy skills and understandings such as (classifying, counting, sorting etc)

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Page 1: Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind ......“ Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold” - Joseph Chilton Pearce The children have

“ Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold” - Joseph Chilton Pearce

The children have been busy running our Vet Hospital this week as they engage with a range of children playing together. Items such as x-rays, dress ups, phones, keyboard, clipboards, teddies and stethoscopes are provided as provocations to the children to use in their play. In dramatic play children have the opportunity to: - develop their receptive and expressive language skills (listening and speaking).- build their attention and engagement capacity- learn how to negotiate other children and their own thoughts, strategies and ideas- develop their social skills; entering play, leading and following in the play, sharing ideas in their play - develop abstract thinking skills - pre numeracy skills and understandings such as (classifying, counting, sorting etc)

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A visit to grade 3 Last week we visited the Grade 3’s to look at their projects. The children were fascinated by what they saw and learnt from the Grade 3’s. Alexa: The solar system is a big round circle. Scarlette: The sun doesn't move at all. Lewis: Planet earth moves. Sophia: One of the person said the sun can not

move and another said it takes 72 days. Xander: My sister makes daylight and moonlight.

It had a big sun, she cut out the box. Zoe: The moon spins around but not the sun. Elsie: The moon goes around the Earth in the

morning it’s getting hotter and when the moon goes forward and back it’s getting colder.

Zach: Planet Earth moves. The sun gives us light.