BOOK IN A BACKPACK! A NOTE FROM EARLY YEARS

KEY DATES...
Monday 23 March - Thursday 2 April
Dental Program - Building 5 Rm 5:31
Thursday 26 March
EY and PY Sports Day
Friday 27 March
Breakfast Club 8.30-8.50 am
MY and SY Sports Day
EY Assembly 10.15-10.45 am
Wednesday 1 April
EY and PY Exhibition of Learning
4-6 pm - Buildings 2.5.6.8.9 & 10
Friday 3 April
GOOD FRIDAY
Thursday 9 April
STUDENTS FINAL DAY OF TERM 1
Friday 10 April
PUPIL FREE DAY
A NOTE FROM EARLY YEARS LEADERSHIP
Explicit teaching is one of the 4 Pillars of MOC. It is a
teaching strategy designed to engage all students in
unambiguous, clearly articulated learning experiences.
Teachers plan and program to make clear connections
to the Australian Curriculum content, through a focus on
the gradual progressive steps that lead to a student’s
ability to independently apply their new knowledge and
skills. Our teachers began working in 2014 with John
Fleming, Deputy Chair of the AITSL Board and Director
of the Haileybury Institute, to develop expertise in the
development and delivery of warm ups - regular, structured
practice and review of skills and knowledge until they have
been learned to automaticity - and the “I do, we do, you
do” approach to lesson design. Lessons or units of work
are designed to allow teachers to model (I do), to guide
practice (We do) and to provide opportunities for students
to apply their new learning independently (You do). Our
Pupil Free Day at the end of this term will be dedicated to
professional learning about Explicit Teaching
Kim Cooper
Executive Leader (Birth-Year 6)
CLASSROOM
CONTRIBUTION
The Reception children in Miss
Magin’s class have finished
learning all the Jolly Phonics sounds
and digraphs. We are now using
this knowledge to blend and
segment these sounds to create
words and write sentences. In
Math’s we have been busy learning
about teen numbers and adding
one more. Our class has been
singing songs, doing warm-up
activities and playing math’s games
to help automatise these skills.
For Exhibition Of Learning we are
creating library bags with our selfportraits on them. We can’t wait to
show them off to everyone!
BOOK IN A BACKPACK!
In response to families showing interest in our Positive
Education initiative ‘bucket filling’ we have started sending
home a book in a backpack, starting with our current group
time book ‘Have You Filled a Bucket Today?’
Each night a different child will take the bag home and
share the book with their family. There is then a page for the
children to draw a picture about how they are ‘bucket fillers’ at home.
This initiative is supportive of the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia Outcome
1, Children have a strong sense of identity. This outcome focusses on children
displaying care, empathy and respect for others.
Thank you for your support with ‘Book in a Backpack’!
Linda Rich - Senior Leader
(Learning and Early Childhood)
Ph. (08) 8209 1600
www.moc.sa.edu.au | info@moc.sa.edu.au
99 Douglas Drive, Munno Para West SA 5115
https://www.facebook.com/pages/MOC-EY/412189298843129
BUCKET FILLING!
Bucket filling is a concept based on the book, “Have you filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to
Daily Happiness for Kids” by Carol McCloud. The premise of the book is we all carry an
invisible bucket that contains our feelings. When our bucket is full, we feel great.
When our bucket is empty, we feel sad. A bucket filler is someone who says or does nice
things for other people. By doing this, they are filling other people’s buckets and filling
their own bucket at the same time. On the other hand, a bucket dipper says or does
things to cause other people to feel bad. A bucket dipper empties their own bucket when
they say and do mean things to others.
Here at MOC, we will all strive to be bucket fillers. We encourage parents and carers to
use this language at home to reinforce the concept of bucket filling outside of school!
Jodie Molitor - Leader (Learning and Well Being)
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
MEET THE
STAFF
Karen
Breslauer
“My name is
Karen Breslauer
and I am very lucky to be
working in the Early Years at
MOC teaching Health, PE
and Science. I am a mum to
two young children and in my
spare time I enjoy spending
time with my family and
friends. I like to keep fit and
enjoy running.”
EARLY YEARS LEADERSHIP
Kim Cooper
Executive Leader (Birth-Year 6)
E: kim.cooper@moc.sa.edu.au
Project Based Learning is enquiry and problem based learning. The distinctive feature of Project
Based Learning is the publicly exhibited product. There are 3 keys to ensuring the success of
Project Based Learning, they are multiple drafts, critique and exhibition (Exhibition of Learning).
Ensuring these areas are addressed, impacts greatly on the culture and work ethic within the
classroom. Critique is the most challenging part of Project Based Learning but also provides the
greatest outcome if executed effectively.
During the planning of the Project teachers work in year level teams to ask three important
questions:
1. Will this project engage my students?
2. Will this project engage me?
3. Will my students learn something meaningful from this project?
These questions determine whether the project is valuable or whether some
changes will need to be made.
Candice Horton - Senior Leader
‘GROW UP SMILING’ AT MOC
The program will now begin in WEEK 9 with recall appointments from 2014, followed by
new patients in Term 2.
GROW UP SMILING will organise the appointments and let families know when the
appointments are. They will then fax through the list of appointments to the school so that we
are able to let class teachers know.
Please note too, that the consultations will NOT be in Building 5, and have been relocated
to the room labelled “STAFF” next to the Pilates studio (2.10) which is opposite Building 5.
Please enter via the Front Office and turn right past the Canteen.
Maryjane Tenison Woods - (Coordinator of College Well Being)
maryjane.tenisonwoods@moc.sa.edu.au or 82091600 (ask for Maryjane)
Linda Rich
Senior Leader
(Learning and Early Childhood)
Candice Horton
Senior Leader
Jodie Molitor
Leader (Learning and Well Being)
www.facebook.com/pages/MOC-Preschool
www.facebook.com/pages/MOC-EY
We are building a Jungle… Service contact number: 0450 257 472
Hello everyone! The OSHC children, along with the children from Occasional Care have been working
hard recently to turn our room into a jungle. The children have been busy drawing and colouring animals,
making paper plate snakes and putting together jungle coloured paper chains. Now that we have
completed so many decorations we will be working hard to display them around the room.
It may not quite be jungle themed, but our beloved assistant Flick has brought in a 5 and a half foot
cardboard dinosaur for us all to decorate. The dinosaur is so big we have had to dismantle it in order to
colour it in. We are looking forward to having the dinosaur completed so we can put it back together and
show it off to our families and friends.
We are often asked if we have spaces available in OSHC and we most certainly do! The best way to join
us is to go to our Camp Australia website, complete an online enrolment form and then, when you are ready
for your child to attend, you can book them in from the same site. We love welcoming new people to
our group.
Sincerely,
Megan (Coordinator), Felicity, Rhonda and Charmaine