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LEARNING GROUPS 👧👦Group time is crucial in early educational environments. Learning in groups ensure appropriate behavio...
08/12/2021

LEARNING GROUPS 👧👦

Group time is crucial in early educational environments. Learning in groups ensure appropriate behaviour and healthy engagement from the whole class. Activities in groups should involve games that promote social interactions and teamwork.

Games are a fun way to build stronger relationships in the class and learn new skills at the same time.

VISUAL TACTILE LITERACY 🤲🏼🔤Visual and tactile learning is important in phonics learning. This ensures your children’s in...
25/11/2021

VISUAL TACTILE LITERACY 🤲🏼🔤

Visual and tactile learning is important in phonics learning. This ensures your children’s individual learning styles are included and deepens their phonemic awareness and letter knowledge.

With a simple worksheet, encourage children to “find it and write it”:

✅ Finding the letter - recognition
✅ Feeling the letter - tactically experiencing shape of letters
✅ Writing the letter - fine motor skills, grip, and control

A simple yet effective activity with a pen, paper, and Glowy Charm’s Spelling Game which comes with colourful wooden letter blocks! Available at the link while stocks last 👉 https://glowycharm.com/collections/products/products/spelling-game%E2%84%A2

MANAGING BIG BEHAVIOURS 🙌👍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀We often notice “bad” behaviours that we enter a cycle of giving them attention. ⠀⠀⠀⠀...
22/11/2021

MANAGING BIG BEHAVIOURS 🙌👍
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We often notice “bad” behaviours that we enter a cycle of giving them attention.
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The tricky part is, attention whether it’s positive or negative is still attention! If behaviours are attention-seeking, then children are being reinforced when you reprimand them. These behaviours will likely continue again and again.
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“Catch them being good” instead, is looking for appropriate behaviours and reinforcing them by giving attention to these behaviours.
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This strategy will also help adults focus on the positive side and see the wonderful things our children can do. A bonus to this strategy is that it also has a domino effect and will motivate siblings or other children in the class to do the right thing too.

e.g. “I love how well you are sitting and listening right now, well done” will encourage some other little people to also sit and listen well!
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This strategy takes some practice. So give it a try!

🪔 Wishing a Happy Deepavali to those celebrating! 🪔
04/11/2021

🪔 Wishing a Happy Deepavali to those celebrating! 🪔

TALKING 🗣️‘Talking’ may seem like the most natural development among little ones. Surely we don’t have to teach this ski...
26/10/2021

TALKING 🗣️

‘Talking’ may seem like the most natural development among little ones. Surely we don’t have to teach this skill?

However, babies begin to hear speech from their parents and others around them from birth. Children develop language from their environment and those who communicate with them.

Children may also develop speech and language at different rates. So it’s important seek help if you're concerned. Speech pathologists will be able to determine if a child needs therapy for a speech or language delay.
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Nonetheless, there are many ways parents can help children develop efficient speech and language at home. An obvious one is talking with children as much as possible. Practicing communication and having regular conversations will help children develop these skills themselves.

CHILDREN, SLEEP & LEARNING 😴💤💡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀For children, sleep is more crucial for physical and brain development.Unfortunat...
19/10/2021

CHILDREN, SLEEP & LEARNING 😴💤💡
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For children, sleep is more crucial for physical and brain development.

Unfortunately, many parents forget this importance and cut out day sleeps for young children.

Remember: A child not WANTING to nap isn’t the same as a child not NEEDING to nap. Children who have naps during the day have longer attention spans, are less fussy and sleep better at night.
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Insufficient sleep can cause a range of problems for children including high emotions, poor planning, lack of attention span, aggression, behavioral issues, hyperactivity, irritability and even obesity.
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While many parents fear that day sleeps will interfere with bedtimes at night, it’s actually quite the opposite. Well-rested children settle down quicker at nighttime compared to overtired children, as they're often 'wired' and are more likely to wake during the night.
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Research also shows that too little sleep can affect growth and immune system. So make sure you get your children into a good sleep routine both during the day and night to create healthy sleeping habits.

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 👶➡️🧒There seems to be a natural focus on ‘developmental milestones’, especially for parents ...
12/10/2021

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 👶➡️🧒

There seems to be a natural focus on ‘developmental milestones’, especially for parents which can be daunting for new mums when they hear another mum talk about their child’s wonderful language skills.
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For educators, psychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists and pediatricians, ‘developmental milestones’ are helpful tools in understanding child development and determining whether children need help or intervention in certain areas.
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However, these developments can occur at very different paces. Yes, we can diagnose a particular ‘delay’ in development, but some children will reach those milestones with the help of early intervention.
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So, when discussing development with another parent or asking a professional if your child is the ‘same’ as other children, remember that every child is different. Whether a 12-month-old has begun to walk or a 4 year old is just beginning to talk, this is still a milestone reached.
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Listen to educators and other professionals for advice on children’s development. We’re lucky to have so many therapy options and early intervention to give children the best start to life.

PLAY 🎭🎲⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The term that shapes our whole early education program is often misunderstood and underestimated by many...
04/10/2021

PLAY 🎭🎲
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The term that shapes our whole early education program is often misunderstood and underestimated by many parents. It's common for many parents to expect learning from children to look like worksheets, flash cards, or drilling.

However, play is the most powerful form of learning. Play isn’t a simple pass-time for children. It’s a crucial part of healthy development.
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Playing activates a child’s brain in a way that computer screens and television cannot. Playing requires imagination and problem solving, which two very important life skills.
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There are also many types of play that children and adults engage in (yes adults should still play!). Play is versatile and can be different things to different people. For some it’s hiking and for others it’s reading a book.
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“Play is the highest form of research” - Albert Einstein

TANTRUMS 😭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀We have all witnessed one whether you are an educator, a parent, or simply been in the toy aisle of a...
20/09/2021

TANTRUMS 😭
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We have all witnessed one whether you are an educator, a parent, or simply been in the toy aisle of a shopping centre.
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Tantrums are actually a NORMAL part of development in the early years. Children’s brains are still developing emotional regulation.
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If we look at tantrums from a brain science perspective, a concept called ‘flipping the lid’ is used to describe the way our brains trigger emotional responses. ‘Flipping the lid’ means lose control. When children flip their lid, they aren’t thinking or acting clearly.
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The concept of ‘flipping the lid’ can be taught to children to help them understand the reason behind their BIG emotions. We teach children that their brain is a house with an upstairs and downstairs. Showing them a closed palm we explain that the ‘downstairs’ brain (limbic system) is our feelings brain. The upstairs brain which are our closed fingers represents the thinking brain (neo-cortex) and helps us solve problems and make decisions.
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Our brains work best when the upstairs and downstairs brains communicate effectively. In children’s brains the thinking brain is still developing (and continues until mid twenties). Therefore, they're more likely to ‘flip their lid’ than adults (although us adults certainly do too).
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When children flip their lids the feelings brain (downstairs) overtakes the thinking brain this is when emotional outbursts, meltdowns and tantrums occur. Children appear to over react and become highly emotional to situations and events. This is because their thinking brain is not telling them what to do.
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As educators and parents we can help children make connections in their brains by teaching them about ‘flipping their lids’ and giving them alternative strategies to keep the lid on and cope with situations. Children can be reminded right before they may experience a tantrum, showing them a fist and saying “I can see your about to flip your lid, do you need help?”. We can then give them ideas for calming down. It is important to remember however that all children ‘flip their lids’, and sometimes we can’t prevent these big emotions.

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT 💭When educators or therapists speak of vocabulary, they're referring to the set of words a child ...
09/09/2021

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT 💭

When educators or therapists speak of vocabulary, they're referring to the set of words a child knows and uses in expressive speech.

Children’s vocabularies develop rapidly from 1-6 years old. By the age of 2, a child should have a vocabulary of 200-300 words.

Vocabulary is important as it forms the basis for language development. Research shows that vocabulary is linked to reading comprehension, intelligence and general ability.

How to increase vocabulary?

➕ Read to them everyday

➕ Talk to children about the environment around them

➕ Use the correct terminology for objects the child uses or points to

➕ Ask older children about their day at preschool/ school

➕ When talking, encourage children to expand on their sentences “why do you think that happened?” “What is another word for that?”

➕ Play language games e.g. eye spy, who am I, charades

Remember all children develop at their own pace. If you're concerned about a child’s development, for example when an over two year old is hard to understand or has limited speech, seek advice from a doctor, child’s teacher, or speech therapist.

DRAMATIC PLAY 💡Dramatic play can provide children with relief from emotional tension! Just like adults retell events ove...
06/09/2021

DRAMATIC PLAY 💡

Dramatic play can provide children with relief from emotional tension! Just like adults retell events over and over to cope with a rather traumatic event, children replay the event in their dramatic play.

For example, if a child experiences an operation, they are likely to become the doctor or nurses they experienced at the hospital. This is also the case for dealing with positive events. Generally, dramatic play allows children to make sense of the world they live in, to develop many skills that will help them succeed throughout their lives.

Dramatic play has so many benefits to children’s development...

➕Allows children to have power in situations they aren’t usually in control of. Children can control adult related tasks and events.

➕ Social interaction skills: learning to empathize with others, take on leader or follower roles, develop social cues (making eye contact and sustained conversational topics).

➕Language development: use of expressive language, conversational turn-taking, learn to ask and answer questions, increased vocabulary.

➕ Cognitive development: children make use of pictures/imagination they have created in their minds to recreate past experiences, which is a form of abstract thinking.

Children should be encouraged to engage in dramatic play every day. For children who are more apprehensive to participate in this play, find out what their interests are and add in props/materials that will spark their curiosity.

SNATCHING 🤝🏻For many parents of young children, social skills are the biggest concern. Parents wish for their children t...
01/09/2021

SNATCHING 🤝🏻

For many parents of young children, social skills are the biggest concern. Parents wish for their children to have lots of friends and be ‘liked’ by others. It’s when they first witness their child taking toys off other children, feelings of embarrassment and concern quickly take over.

However ‘snatching’ is a very normal part of development. Toddlers who are still developing their language may grab objects off others simply because they don’t have the words to say “can I have a turn”. Toddlers and children who are beginning to use language will often experiment with self-referential language such as “I, me, and my”. When a child claims something as their own saying “it’s mine”, this is isn’t a sign of selfishness, but a cognitive development that they understand they’re separate from you and others.

When snatching does occur, it’s best not to intervene straight away. Often the child who’s snatched from won’t be bothered by the situation and the conflict will be resolved within seconds. Allowing children to experiment and experience conflicts in a safe way is important for their social development.

If snatching however is a consistent regular occurrence, and the child is old enough to use language then intervention can occur. Simply role modelling to children how to use their words and sort out any conflicts, will help them to develop self-control and consideration of others’ feelings. With modelling appropriate behavior over a few occurrences, sharing will become natural for children and their impulse control will kick in.

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