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Program Benefits
There are numerous benefits that children and their parents will receive when they participate in the program. The more terms your child completes, the more likely they will achieve the following outcomes:
Fine Motor
Oral Language
Early Literacy
Early Numeracy
School Readiness
There are numerous benefits that children and their parents will receive when they participate in the program. The more terms your child completes, the more likely they will achieve the following outcomes:
Fine Motor
- Strengthen their hands, fingers and wrists to assist with correct pencil grip
- Develop hand / eye coordination
- Improve pincher grip technique
- More independence with other important skills e.g. packing/unpacking school bag, opening containers, pulling lids off glue sticks, doing up buttons, opening packets of food.
Oral Language
- Develop effective listening skills to follow directions (receptive language)
- Increased confidence speaking in front of a group (expressive language)
- More participation in class, e.g. asking and answering questions
- Compose interesting sentences to share during news or responses to questions
Early Literacy
- Identify letters and make links with initial sounds in words
- Understanding the direction of letters when handwriting
- Increased phonemic awareness
- Knowledge about how reading sounds and how words work
- Articulate sounds in words, which assists with writing
Early Numeracy
- Identify numbers 1 to 10
- Counting forwards and backwards using visual stimuli
- Recognise, draw and make 2D shapes
- Sorting objects into groups
- Increased awareness of positional language
School Readiness
- More focus, attention and concentration
- Improved memory and confidence
- Increased independence and responsibility for belongings
- Smoother transition to school for the child and parent/carer
- Able to work in a structured learning environment
- Knowledge about how to help your child reach their potential