As part of Dental Health Week, which starts this week, the Australian Dental Asocciation is offering a free dental children's storybook Guardians of the Gums available to download. Created together with BeeHealthy Stories and SugarByHalf, the story tells the battle faced by the Guardians of the Gums as they protect the teeth from sugar and bacteria.
Australia Post is the principal partner of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. They have created the Pen Pal Club teacher guide encouraging children to investigate and share First Nations stories and culture through letter writing.
The aim of Quality Area 1 is to ensure that the educational programs and practices of educators are child-centred, stimulating and maximise opportunities for enhancing and extending each child’s learning and development. In the school-age care context, the aim of this Quality Area is to see that the program nurtures the development of life skills and complements children’s experiences, opportunities and relationships at school, at home and in the community. The following article provides FDC Compliance Responsibilities Of QA1, Documentation Of Assessment, How Compliance Is Monitored, Consequences For Non-Compliance and more.
It is crucial that all providers and service staff ensure children are safe, healthy and protected from harm and risks associated with sleep and rest by complying with all sleep and rest regulatory requirements.
Cactus Shadow Match Cut and Paste is a great activity for children to identify the right shadow cactus with their matching image. This activity enables children to develop visual discrimination skills, hand-eye coordination and learning to analyse the shapes of images to match.
The World Of Bridges Posters displays images of bridges from all over the world. These are great to display in the construction and block area to inspire children to build and create their own bridges or be inspired to create their own.
Doughnut Counting is a counting activity where children need to recognise and identify the number on the milkshake and add the correct number of doughnuts. This is a great way for children to recognise and learn numbers and one-to-one correspondence. This can be used in various ways, including with playdough where children can make their own doughnuts out of playdough and laminated children can draw their own.
The Opposites Posters enable children to learn the concept of opposites. Opposites are pairs of words that directly contrast each other or are opposites. These posters have colour images to help children grasp this concept. These are great to display within the learning environment.
Munch and Move presented a webinar on Fundamental Movement Skills, which is currently available to watch.
The Firefighter Alphabet Match is a fun way for children to learn and match alphabet letters. This alphabet activity enables children to recognise letters and match each letter to the correct fire for the firefighter to extinguish.
Effective communication can be understood as communication between two or more persons wherein the intended message is successfully delivered, received and understood. Since so much of the work in an early childhood education and care setting consists of listening, understanding and exchanging insights, effective communication makes up one of the key tools in the skill set for anyone running and/or leading a centre. The following article provides information on How Effective Communication Help, Basic Steps Of Effective Communication, Modes Of Communication, Difficult Conversations and more.
Hundreds of early childhood union members voted to take national action, shut down the early learning sector and take to the streets on Early Childhood Educators Day on September 7.
The Crazy Hair Playdough Mats are a great way for children to create their own crazy hair. Children can use coloured playdough to decorate their own crazy hair playdough mat. Playdough is good for children to manipulate and strengthen their fine motor skills.
