Incorporate the language into your program

Sing the app songs with the children at group time. Open the app and sing along with Beelee and Talo. 

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Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts

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1.1.3 Program learning opportunities

• Ask children to move to the next activity if they are wearing a colour you name in your chosen language.
• Count the plates as you set up for snack time, in your chosen language.
• Count children if they line up, in your chosen language.

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Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media

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1.2.1 Intentional teaching

• Encourage the children to speak the chosen language while using the apps.
• Provide spaces that encourage children to interact with each other while using the apps.

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Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking

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1.2.1 Child-centred

Practise saying hello in your chosen language and in the home language of families that speak a language other than English.

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Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity

Children feel safe, secure, and supported

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5.1.1 Positive educator to child interactions

Encourage the children to use words and phrases from the apps in their play away from the tablet devices and in different situations like outdoors.

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Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners

Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another

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5.1.2 Collaborative learning

Print the We are learning poster and record examples of when you have used your chosen language with the children so that you can share the information with staff and families. For example, ‘We are learning to count in Hindi when we set the table’ or ‘We are learning to say Konnichiwa when we arrive at preschool’.

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Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

Children respond to diversity with respect

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1.3.2 Critical reflection