During the first few weeks of Term 1, the Chinese New Year celebration was a focus in the St John's Campus ELC. In Room Purlaityi (Room 2 in Kaurna) one of the educators, Liv Yan, helped children to make their own dumplings. The learning involved literacy skills of sequencing and language development through discussions about the method and mathematical concepts such as amounts and capacity when using the ingredients. Physical and sensory input took place when children used their hands to form the dumpling and then ate it. The children’s enjoyment was evident in the eating of the dumplings due to the many requests to do it all again!

Jacqui Downes and Deborah Waters
ELC Teachers