Eaglehawk Preschool

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What a fun time we have had creating a gingerbread house and eating a few lollies……. The children can’t wait till we eat it😋🎄🎅

I wonder what that children are making this morning………stay tuned!!!!!!

Mmmmmmm ………. I wonder what this Christmas activity is going to be?????

Bunnings BBQ at Epsom Bunnings today. Don’t forget to support the kindergarten by grabbing a sausage for lunch.

Thankyou to the families who have volunteered some time today

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Second round registrations are know opened! Places are filling fast. Ensure to register your 3 and 4 year old ASAP

Don’t for get to enrol your kindergarten aged children. Both 3 and 4 years old kindergarten is free for 2025! Enrolments close tomorrow! Register by clicking the link below .
https://enrolments.lmpa.org.au/lmpa.php

The importance of imaginative play at kindergarten is incredibly important for children

Through imaginative play children develop:-

1 Creativity
Imaginative play allows children to use their imaginations and creativity to create scenarios, characters, and storylines. This helps in fostering creativity, fun and problem solving skills.

2. Social Skills:- Through make-believe play, children learn how to interact with others, take on different roles. This helps them to scaffold their learning by turn taking,negotiation, and collaboration. This assists in developing social skills that are essential for their future interactions with peers and adults.

3. Language Development: - Make-believe play often involves storytelling, role-playing, and using language in different contexts. This helps to develop vocabulary, language development, reciprocal conversation skills, as well as understanding narrative structures of children with more complex language then their own.

4. Emotional Development:
Children often use make-believe play to work through their emotions, fears, and anxieties in a safe and controlled environment. This helps in developing emotional intelligence and resilience.

5. Cognitive Skills:- Make-believe play requires children to use problem-solving, thinking, and memory skills to learn how the world works around them.

Make-believe play is an essential part of Kindergarten. It supports holistic development in children and provides them with valuable skills . These skills will carry forward in becoming independent little people who have developed great resilience and empathy of others.
Children will be able to move along their learning journey as confident leaders who will give anything a go!