Holistic learning gives as much importance to the emotional, social and physical growth of the child as the intellectual. Among the many benefits of holistic learning is that it enhances a child's subjective sense of well-being or simply put, makes them happier. The following article provides information on Nurturing Emotional Learning, Fostering Social Skills, Facilitiatiing Physical Movement and more.
An award of nearly $200,000 was given to a Queensland Educator who stumbled over a Lego brick and hurt her ankle. She tripped while dragging a section of the obstacle course from a shed and suffered an ankle injury that was later diagnosed as a disruption of the anterior talofibular ligament.
More early educators leaving the industry than ever before have been attributed to a "perfect storm" of reasons. Within the past week, 39 early childhood services shut down due to a lack of educators to run them.
The NSW Department Of Education has developed a free professional development course video for Educators on completing Transition To School statements.
With a record number of scholarship recipients announced recently, more than 1,000 aspiring early childhood educators in NSW are on their way to a rewarding career supporting the state’s littlest learners. Over the next four years, more than 18,000 early childhood educators and teachers will receive support thanks to the NSW Government's unprecedented investment in the ECEC workforce.
Gingerbread House Numbers Find and Colour is a number recognition game where children need to find the matching number from the gingerbread house door. Once they find the correct matching number children can colour it in. This is a great number recognition game and helps children to identify numbers.
The Department Of NSW has produced a special picture book to support a child's transition to primary school called Daisy's First Day.
Christmas Colour Match enables children to match the same colour objects under the correct colour Christmas tree. This is an excellent activity for children learning colours and sorting and categorising things based on colours.
Gingerbread Letter Match enables children to match the correct gingerbread to its house. This is great for children learning letters and for children to begin letter recognition.
The Shopping List Sort enables children to "go shopping" by finding the items on their list and adding the correct matching picture to their shopping trolley. This is a great game for children to begin to identify different objects based on the picture provided,
Numeracy encompasses a much wider notion than numbers – it can be understood as the suite of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need in order to use mathematics in a wide range of situations. The following provides a list of numeracy activities for children that can be incorporated into an emerging numeracy environment.
My Christmas Sweater encourages children to create their own Christmas sweaters by following the number task cards. Children are given number task cards and a blank sweater. Each task card has pictures and the amount the pictures should be placed on the sweater, thus creating a Christmas sweater. This is great for children to recognise numbers and to practice counting.
