Independent Learning - Resource Kits 2017 - 2018
Independent Learning provides a selection of play-based learning activities that supports incidental learning, active participation and creates opportunities for learners to acquire and generalise skills at their own pace. The learning activities ensure that individualisation can take place and because of the concrete nature it also serves as assessment tools. The selected material all has outcomes that align to developmental principals and promote specific academic skills in a fun and colourful way. All the materials provide concrete hands-on activities that are engaging, captivating and motivating. These materials ensure that children learn new skills with great enthusiasm. Finland’s education system is currently number 1 in the world for the simple reason that they have gone back to the basics. The success in Finland has been attributed to the fact that all children learn through play and active participation. These learning activities have been compiled specifically for schools specialising in ASD and Developmental delays but the content is also relevant for early intervention centres. Each kit has been carefully compiled by Reinette Lombard (Remedial therapist) with over 15 years of practical experience in ASD, general specials needs education and child development. Reinette is also a mom of two boys and believes in the power-of-play. The activities are all manufactured to the highest European and North American standards, many of which have won prestigious prizes for innovation around the world.
Independent Learning provides a selection of play-based learning activities that supports incidental learning, active participation and creates opportunities for learners to acquire and generalise skills at their own pace. The learning activities ensure that individualisation can take place and because of the concrete nature it also serves as assessment tools.
The selected material all has outcomes that align to developmental principals and promote specific academic skills in a fun and colourful way. All the materials
provide concrete hands-on activities that are engaging, captivating and motivating. These materials ensure that children learn new skills with great enthusiasm.
Finland’s education system is currently number 1 in the world for the simple reason that they have gone back to the basics. The success in Finland has been attributed
to the fact that all children learn through play and active participation.
These learning activities have been compiled specifically for schools specialising in ASD and Developmental delays but the content is also relevant
for early intervention centres.
Each kit has been carefully compiled by Reinette Lombard (Remedial therapist) with over 15 years of practical experience in ASD, general specials needs education
and child development. Reinette is also a mom of two boys and believes in the power-of-play.
The activities are all manufactured to the highest European and North American standards, many of which have won prestigious prizes for innovation around the world.
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OUTCOMES 1<br />
Quantitative information refers to<br />
information that can be measured<br />
and expressed as an amount.<br />
This includes :<br />
- having a sense of the magnitude of<br />
numbers<br />
- using numbers in real-life situations<br />
- estimating amounts<br />
- interpreting statistical information<br />
- recognizing patterns<br />
- determining probability<br />
physical location of objects or people,<br />
or the relationship between them.<br />
This includes :<br />
- understanding shape and space<br />
- measuring time, weight, height or amounts<br />
- determining location and direction<br />
- interpreting and creating maps and<br />
schematic diagrams<br />
- visualizing shapes from different<br />
perspectives<br />
OUTCOMES 2Spatial information refers to the<br />
NUMERACY<br />
Numeracy is the ability, confidence<br />
and willingness to engage with quantitative<br />
and spatial information to make informed decisions<br />
in all aspects of daily living. A numerate individual has<br />
the confidence and awareness to know when and<br />
how to apply quantitative and spatial understandings<br />
at home, at school, at work or in the community.<br />
AGES 3 TO 6<br />
AGES 7 TO 9<br />
AGES 10 +<br />
16 ACTIVITIES<br />
17 ACTIVITIES 16 ACTIVITIES<br />
P4<br />
E&O.E
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