The Lunar New Year Information Posters provides information on Lunar New Year celebrations. These are great to use as a display or as a discussion point with children.
Lunar New Year is a festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar. On New Year’s day, family members receive red envelopes (lai see) containing small amounts of money. The origins of the Lunar New Year festival are thousands of years old and are steeped in legends. One legend is that of Nian, a hideous beast believed to feast on human flesh on New Year’s day. Because Nian feared the colour red, loud noises, and fire, red paper decorations were pasted to doors, lanterns were burned all night, and firecrackers were lit to frighten the beast away.
The Chinese Colour Lanterns enables children to recognise and match colours by matching the correct colour circle to the coloured lantern. The coloured circles are to be cut out for children to sort and match the colour dots for lantern. Children can also use pom pom, playdough, coloured blocks and more. This activity will help children to correctly identify and recognise primary and secondary colours and is great for fine motor skills too.
Banana and Nutella Pops is a very simple 2 ingredient ice cream that children will enjoy on a hot summer day.
Easily grow 9 kinds of vegetables in water indoors using vegetable offcuts. Children will enjoy the anticipation, curiosity and interest while growing their own vegetables. The following article lists vegetables that grow in water indoors.
As Educators, one of the main responsibilities is completing documentation for each child. Whether it will be completing an observation, writing a report or even communicating with parents everything needs to be written. The following Descriptive Words For Observations Posters is a list of descriptive words that can be used while writing. These can be used as a reference point for Educators when completing documentation.
These flashcards enable children to match each fruit with their shadow. Shadow matching enables children to develop visual discrimination skills and enables children to analyse shapes of fruits to match to one another.
This activity requires children to match halves of fruit together. By doing this activity children will develop their visual discrimination by choosing the correct half to match, hand eye coordination, awareness of different fruits and cognitive development. These can also be cut and laminated for children to match.
Healthy Lunchbox Week takes place from 4th February to 10th February. The following provides Articles, FREE Printables and Activities that can be included in the curriculum for children.
Reflections are observing, listening, thinking deeply about the meaning of what you have observed and heard, and using that information to inform your practice and continually respond and reflect.
The Magic Lunchbox tells a story about when Grandma comes to visit and gives Mango and Sprint a "magic lunchbox". This story is available to download for FREE for Educators to read during group time which supports young children to understand everyday healthy food choices.
Fruit Cut And Glue Picture Match enables children to cut out the colour fruit picture and glue them onto the corresponding picture. These can be pre cut and laminated and childcare can use them to create a complete a puzzle of each fruit.
Food Group posters show each food group's name and a variety of foods that fit into that specific group. These are great to encourage children in discussions on healthy eating and can be used in a variety of different learning experiences.
One of the best ways to encourage children to grow a garden to develop a range of skills is to create an edible garden. An edible garden is a garden that contains flowers, herbs, seeds, berries and plants that can be eaten.
Build A Fruit Salad Cut and Paste enables children to cut out the pieces of fruit of their choice and create their own fruit salad. The Build A Fruit Salad Set helps children with their cutting skills as they cut out ingredients of their choice.
This can also be laminated and pre-cut and used with playdough etc.
