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Learning Environments - Play Based Learning Prep to Grade 2

  • Natural Materials

    Collage

    The collage area provides rich opportunities for a never ending range of creativity, projects, experimentation with materials and where much literacy and numeracy occurs. Displaying and presenting the materials needs to create a sense of invitation, order, grouping and organisation.

    There are 21 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:18pm

  • Building Area

    Construction Area

    Children construct knowledge and understanding through hands on creating. Children need opportunities to develop, plan and represent ideas, and to reflect, map out, construct and complete their designs. Design work, planning actual construction, and the extension of dramatic play into the construction area is rich and filled with many opportunities for the teacher to scaffold literacy and numeracy.

    There are 19 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:16pm

  • Home Corner

    Dramatic Play

    Children need many opportunities for dramatic play. Dramatic play is a major way in which oral language and a range of other literacy and numeracy skills are developed as well as problem solving, decision making, persistence, creative and lateral thinking.

    There are 42 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:24pm

  • Ocean

    Interest Areas

    There are 18 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:15pm

  • Numeracy Table

    Linking Literacy and Numeracy

    Across Prep to Grade 2 print rich experiences and opportunities that link literacy and numeracy to the children's investigations are an integral part of the WLA.

    There are 14 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:12pm

  • Focus Children Rosters

    Other Ideas and Learning Experiences

    There are 32 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:36pm

  • Dramatic Play

    Outdoor Investigations

    There are 2 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 20 January 2012 - 12:30pm

  • Reading Area

    Reading Area

    Reading areas are used for relaxing, reading, researching, sharing information and storytelling. They should be quiet, attractive and defined spaces, which also reflect an inviting place for children to visit.

    There are 7 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:05pm

  • Sensory Area

    Sensory Area

    Sensory areas provide find motor and hand eye practise, but additionally allow children to experience creativity and to be in tune with not just their thinking and academic skills but the sensory perception areas as well. At times these can link directly to a literacy experience or they many simply be a means unto themselves which children may then extend.

    There are 39 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 3 February 2012 - 11:23am

  • Tinkering Materials

    Tinkering

    There are 5 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 8:23pm

  • Writing Table

    Writers Workshop

    A table with pens, papers, scissors and work in progress signs helps to create a learning environment that children associate with writing and reading as an integral and purposeful tool in their investigations. Signs around this area, with letter formations modelled and with all sorts of paper and pens accessible to children invites them to use writing and documenting within context and not just at a specific 'writing' time.

    There are 3 images in this gallery.

    Last updated: 28 January 2012 - 7:57pm