Transportation Shadows Cut and Paste is a great activity for children to identify the right shadow transportation with their matching image. This activity enables children to develop vidual discrimination skills, hand eye coordination and learning to analyse the shapes of images to match.
As per the Best Practice Guidelines by Allergy and Anaphylaxis In Australia, in regards to anaphylaxis prevention, it recommends that early childhood services to not ban foods or claim to be free from any allergen such as "nut free".
Road Letters are a great addition to add to a transportation interest that has emerged within the room or even for those children who enjoy playing with vehicles. Using these letters children can use toy cars to trace over the top of them or use them to spell out their name. Road letters can be used in a variety of ways including letter recognition, tracing, finding specific letters, with playdough, collaged and more!
Human Body Organ Colouring Pages enable children to learn the different names of organs and to understand what each organ looks like in their body. Its a great starting point for children to become interested in their human body and to recognise different parts.
On Monday 27th September, Chief executive officer Julia Davison of Goodstart Early Learning, announced that all employees throughout Australia will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID, by 29 November.
Flower Petal Counting enables children to add the correct number of petals corresponding to the number inside the flower. This helps children with identifying numbers, supports number recognition and one to one correspondence.
The leaves provided can be cut out and glued onto the stalk of each flower or flowers and leaves can be laminated for children to place petals on the flower stalk.
On Friday 1 October, Big W will be hosting "Biggest Wiggly Birthday Party" a free online virtual concert for children.
The Levels For Childcare Wages In Australia Posters enable Educators to determine what classification structure they fall under, according to the Children’s Services Award 2010 that determines their minimum wage. Each Poster gives a definition of the level, qualifications required and the duties an Educator should perform in order to be paid at that particular level. This will help Educators to understand their correct level and their correct pay at that specific level. These Posters should be displayed in the Staff Room or added into the Orientation Pack for Educators so they understand their classification level.
Number Find is a simple activity for children to find the corresponding number as it states at the top of the page. Children can colour, use counters, paint etc to cover the correct number. This simple activity enables children to recognise and find correct numbers from 1 to 10.
The Encouraging Phrases Posters are examples of encouraging phrases you could use with children throughout the day. These can be displayed within the service as a reminder of positive phrases for Educators to reinforce to children.
Encouragement is a self-esteem enhancing tool that Educators should utilize more often. By using encouragement it focuses on the child rather than on the adult. It helps children to feel that we (adults) are interested in them and in what they are doing. It also shows that we have taken the time to notice how they are feeling.
