We all know that recycling is important for our community and world as a whole and most adults now contribute…
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10 Easy ideas for sensory sand play
If your children are growing bored of playing in the backyard sandpit you need this list of 10 easy sand play…
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Sensory Exploration & Play-based Learning with Playdough.
Playdough is a truly wonderful play based learning tool for children. It can be used as a medium for strengthening…
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A Weekly Wander through our Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities and Inspiration
Welcome to my weekly series of play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and encourage both…
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Home Based Early Childhood Services – The real story.
This is a departure from the usual type of posts I write but it’s a topic I feel really strongly…
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How to Support Communication in the Early Years.
Supporting children to become effective and confident communicators is an important role for both parents and educators. Right from birth…
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A Week of Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities & Inspiration
Welcome to my weekly series of play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and encourage both…
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20 Ideas for Australia Day Crafty Fun
It’s Australia Day on the 26th January here in Oz and it’s always nice to get the children involved in…
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A Week of Play Based Learning – Ideas, Activities and Inspiration
Welcome to a new year of my weekly play based learning posts. It is my aim to inspire, support and…
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I’m an early childhood educator so why don’t I look after my own children everyday?
As I walked in the gate of my twins preschool the other morning I was wearing my own family…
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Analysis, Reflection and Evaluation in Early Childhood Programming.
Australian early childhood educators are expected to develop and follow a planning cycle as well as meet EYLF (Early Years…
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Working with the Framework Learning Outcomes – Part 1 LINKING
Let’s have a chat about linking the EYLF outcomes and your programming cycle. Because from what I can see the often misunderstood…
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Understanding Observations, Reflection and Linking in Early Childhood Settings.
I still remember learning about child observations when I was studying my Diploma over 25 years ago now. The best…
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Child Portfolios in Early Childhood Settings – Are they Necessary?
One of the questions I am most often asked by other educators working in the early childhood profession with the…
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Documenting in Home/Family Day Care Part 2 – Finding your programming style.
I must say a big thank you to all those who commented on the Part 1 blog in this series….I…
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