Love 2 Learn Classes
4-6yo Literacy/Numeracy Class
2025 School Readiness, 4-6yo class
1 hour, 30 mins
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday 9.30- 11am
(Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre, 2 Kendall Street, Canterbury)
What to expect in a class
- Show and share – the children bring items from home beginning with the initial sound of the letter learnt in the previous session.
- Reading a page from ‘Milo’s Surprise book’, meeting an animal friend and learning the letter and sound.
- Singing our Milo box song and exploring the items in it that start with the sound of the week.
- Doing Monster tracing on our Ipad and then rainbow tracing of our upper and lower case letter of the day with our bright coloured textas.
- Singing our dynamic Letter/sound chant and doing ‘Speed sounds’
- Learning to blend words together using our letters and sounds
- Learning our high frequency words used in our readers which we call ‘Heart words’
- Reading our Little Learner decodable readers which we then get to take home and practise our reading skills.
- A fun interactive ‘Maths magic’ Number sense activity
- Story time
- Singing our Goodbye song together
In preparation for getting ready to start school your child will be taught :
- Phonemic Awareness
- Sounds-letter links A-Z
- Sounds ck ng sh ch th wh
- Word blending /segmenting
- Sentences
- Heart words- High Frequency words
- Reading our Little Learner take home readers
- Upper and lower case letter tracing and writing in Victorian Cursive script
- Oral Language / Vocabulary Development
- Craft/Music/Games and Fun
- Number Sense activities
- Pencil Grip
- Writing their name
Your child will also develop social skills, co operation, taking turns, listening, sharing whilst building confidence in themselves.
This program uses Little Learners Love Literacy and our very own ‘Maths magic’ program.
Prep Literacy
2025, Prep class
1 hour, 15 mins
Tuesday 4-5:15pm (Mont Albert)
This wonderful program is designed to help support your child in learning the basic foundations in reading, writing and spelling.
We will teach them:
- Letter/Sound links
- How to use their letter/ sound links to read and spell words
- Phonemic Awareness activities – rhyming, syllables
- Blending/Segmenting words
- Making, writing and reading sentences
- Reading skills using our amazing Little Learners love Literacy decodable readers. These readers optimise words you can sound out and help them to learn and read other words that cannot be decoded at this stage ‘Heart words’. ‘ Australian Readers children love to read and can read !’
- High Frequency words ( Heart words ) used in reading and writing
- Handwriting- Victorian cursive script – letter formation, direction, sizing and dotted thirds line position.
Year 1 Literacy Class
2025, Yr 1 class
1 hour, 15 mins
Wednesday 4-5:15pm (Mont Albert)
We teach:
- Letter/Sound links,
- Blending / Segmenting words
- Digraphs /Trigraphs ( ck ng qu th ch ph wh tch)
- Begin the Long Vowels ( oo ee ea ay ai and many more )
- We teach them the different sound patterns that make the same sound in words.
- High frequency words linking to sound patterns we teach
- Synonyms/Homonyms/Homophones/Antonyms
Year 2/3 Literacy Class
2025, Year 2/3 class
1 hour, 15 mins
Thursday 4-5:15pm (Mont Albert)
We teach:
- Revision of digraphs and trigraphs ( ck,ng,qu,th,ch,ph,wh,tch)
- Introduction of long vowels
- High frequency words linked to sound patterns taught and teaching of irregular words
- Synonyms/homonyms/homophones/antonyms
- Contractions
- Suffix er, ing, le
- Silent letters kn,gn,mb,wr
- Grammar/sentence structure
- Writing genre-narrative,report
- We will read our Little Learners love Literacy decodable readers matching in with the sound patterns taught in the session of the day.
- Children will take home our Little Learner readers.
About the programs
Little Learners Love Literacy® is an explicit and sequential literacy approach for teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence. It is an Australian program.
Evidence-based literacy research stresses the importance of explicit and sequential literacy teaching from the beginning. Little Learners Love Literacy® is multi-sensory and engaging program with focussed explicit lessons, games, crafts, music, puppets, drawing and much more. Its Seven Stage sequence ensures that children are never asked to read something that is too difficult for them or that they have not been taught the skills to read yet. It has Decodable readers which only use the sounds and letters children have been explicitly taught allowing them to apply their learning and build confidence. These are Australian books children LOVE to read with words they CAN read in fiction and non fiction.
Maths Magic Program
Our Maths magic program follows the Victorian Curriculum and teaches Number Sense. setting a firm foundation in Numeracy. Lisa has carefully crafted sessions based on the characters Zac and Molly who travel on a Mathematical journey with their pet unicorn Diamond!These classes develop a love of Maths from an early age and an interest in how Maths applies in our every day lives.It sets them up for a successful introduction to Maths at school.
One main focus is the vocabulary that is used in Maths so when they begin school they are familiar with the basic terms and words used in Maths.
• Number Sense Activities
• Basic Addition/Subtraction
• Groups of /How many groups of
• Location/money/time
• Shapes/ Pattern and order
• Measurement
1:1 Intervention & Assessments
Lisa Price offers expertise in Early intervention in Literacy and Numeracy.
She has completed Post Graduate level studies in Learning Difficulties and high distinctions in intervention for early Maths and Literacy difficulties.
As such she is well equipped to Assess your child’s needs and uses diagnostic tests which guide her planning for intervention.
Term Timetable
Tuesday
Prep Class - 4:00 - 5:15pm
(Mont Albert Studio)
Wednesday
4-6yo Class 9.30-11.00am
( Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre)
Year 1 Class - 4:00 - 5:15pm
(Mont Albert Studio)
Thursday
4-6 Yo Class 9:30 - 11:00am
(Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre)
Year 2/3 Class - 4:00 - 5:15pm
(Mont Albert Studio)
Friday
4-6 Yo Class 9:30 - 11:00am
(Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre)
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