Lil’ Learners - School Readiness

Cost: per session $28.90, per term $231.20

Our literacy sessions feature the Little Learners Love Literacy program. This program has been developed from evidence-based research, proven to engage children's interest whilst explicitly teaching the necessary skills to read, spell and write with confidence. The program is multi-sensory and uses music, craft, drama and games to teach early literacy. 

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Meet Milo the Monkey

Milo the monkey calls his friends to invite them to his birthday party, but everybody is busy preparing a surprise for him! Children can search the entertaining illustrations for clues about what birthday surprises are in store for Milo. Each of Milo’s fun friends introduce a new sound and letter. Children absolutely LOVE meeting each new character and are excited to see which new 'friend' Milo will invite next.

Sounds and letters are introduced systematically following the sequence of the Little Learners Love Literacy® program (Stages 1–4): m s f a p t c i b h n o d g i v y r e qu z j u k x w.

Lil’ Learners classes focus on:

• Recognise letters and their most common sound
• Be able to participate in phonological awareness activities
• Reading and spelling simple two and three letter words
• Enhancing oral language skills by encouraging students to express their ideas and observations
• Learning the meaning of new words to build upon students' vocabularies
• Strengthening fine motor skills, ensuring correct pencil grip, starting point and formation when writing letters
• Writing names correctly, using both upper and lowercase letters
• Working cooperatively with others
• Learning to listen to and follow simple instructions
• Developing greater confidence and self-esteem as they achieve and share their successes.

Children will receive:

• Tote bag
• Personally named book to keep all weekly work
• Access to a range of decodable readers
• Weekly resources and activities to complete at home to consolidate learning.

Typical age of learners will be 4 years of age (school readiness).

Class frequency: 1 class per week (45 min)

Class times: Tuesdays  2:00pm, Fridays 11:15 am

Start date: 3/5/22

Cost: per session $28.90, per term $231.20