Over centuries, Nature has been represented by artists, poets and philosophers as the ideal setting for learning about humanity and the universe. Indeed they may have been onto something as everyday there is more evidence about how experiences with nature promote learning.
With this activity the children will be having pure fun as many of them would like to do this sticking activity. Moreover, this is a simple activity as it involves just peeling of the stickers and sticking them. By peeling stickers and sticking them children will be developing their fine motor skills and are also encouraged to think and imagine and present their creation using stickers.
Pretend play is the acting out of stories by children that involves make-believe characters, emotions and situations. Developmental psychologists believe that children begin to engage in pretend play from around two years and it goes on to mark an important stage in development of the child as they learn to think in abstract terms.
The 7 Wonders Of The World Posters are great for children to understand and to know. They are selected based on their iconic feats involving mankind and are based on statistical, historical and cultural significance. These can be used as a display or to bring about discussion and interest in children.
The Staff Ratios and Adequate Supervision information, for NSW early childhood services, has been revised and updated by the NSW Regulatory Authority, NSW Department Of Education.
When playing with things, children are usually attracted to those that are colourful, easily handled, made up of many components and allow enough room for their curiosity. Loose parts is a term used in early childhood learning to include such object and materials that children can move, control and change in numerous ways.
The Birthday Colouring Pages are a great way to celebrate children's birthdays. Friends can colour, paint, collage a birthday colouring page which then can be collected from all friends and put together to form a special birthday book to present to the child on their birthday.
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.
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.
