This is a great activity that can be made simply with paper. It’s an excellent activity to teach the tripod grasp to the kids. The tripod grasp involves the action fingers alone i.e. the thumb, the pointer and the middle fingers.
This free webinar series has been funded through the NSW Department of Education’s Sector Development Program. The series includes Inclusion For Children With Disabilities - including ethical and legal obligations, Observing and Planning For Inclusion - including taking observation to assist you, overview of observations etc, Strategies To Support Inclusion - how to structure the learning environment to support children with disabilities and how to implement ILP.
Play-based learning uses playful experiences in which children have some degree of agency and control as opportunities for teaching a range of skills and competencies.
NSW Health has issued an urgent warning of a gastro outbreak sweeping across early childhood services across NSW. With almost 1000 children and 200 Educators have been struck down - a 97% increase since February.
Dragon Colour Matching is a colour matching activity that enables children to match the correct dragon to correct colour castle. This activity is great for children learning primary and secondary colours, colour recognition and learning colours.
This is an interesting activity where children will be learning to write letters of the alphabet on their own through tracing. This will improve their ability to recognise letters. Children will also become familiar with the strokes of each alphabet thus making them ready to start writing.
Literacy skills cover the ability to read and write words, sentences and language. Since such skills are not just the basis of effective communication but also determine future academic progress, it is important to support literacy skills from early childhood.
This amazing activity will turn the learning environment into space with several colourful rockets flying here and there. This is an activity thus exercising the fine motor skills of the child. Kids here will be making and blowing their own straw rockets.
Though as educators, we tend to value the well-being of children above everything else, there may be some merit in encouraging a bit of risky play in the early years.
Through this experience children are going to explore their imagination skills by making accessories like bracelets, necklaces anklets. All this they are going to do with pieces of straw. This will be working on their hand-eye coordination and cognitive skills as well.
On Monday 14th February, a man allegedly tried to attempt to kidnap a child from a Lane Cove child care centre.
Counting Pancakes is a fun "pancake theme" counting activity that children can do. Children need to recognise and identify the number on the syrup bottle and add the correct number of strawberries on top of each of the pancakes. This is a great way for children to recognise and learn numbers and for one to one correspondence. This can be used in a variety of ways including with playdough where children can make their own toppings out of playdough, when laminated children can draw their own toppings etc.
