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Exploring Our Community
Children make sense of the things, places and people in their world by interacting with others, playing, investigating, questioning, and forming,...
Growing Young Minds
Experimenting with clay or “uku” provides children with the opportunity to be creative and learn about texture, shape and form....
Taking Risks in Early Childhood Education
Within the early childhood field, play has long been acknowledged as an important context for children’s learning and development. Play...
Respectful Practice
Children need to experience gentle and respectful interactions during all care times. Care times need to be individualized to meet the needs...
Free Movement
“What are children capable of learning by themselves - without being taught - and how can we help them in developing their...
Active Play in a Homebased Setting
Supporting active indoor play in a Homebased setting Indoor play can sometimes be more sedentary than outdoor play, due to the resources that may be...
Play in a Home-based Setting
Children are naturally physically active and the environment has a role in engaging children in physically active play. Physically active play...
Language and Literacy Rich Environment
Recent research on early literacy emphasises the importance of a print-rich and resource‑rich environments, and meaningful and socially-constructed...
