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Receiving awards 🏆in early childhood can have several positive effects on a child’s development:

🏆Boosts Self-Esteem: Recognition through awards can make children feel proud of their achievements, reinforcing their sense of worth and capabilities.
🥇Encourages Positive Behavior: Awards often reward desirable behaviors like effort, kindness, or academic achievement, motivating children to continue exhibiting those behaviors.
🎖️Develops Goal Setting: Awards help children understand the concept of working towards a goal, fostering skills in setting and achieving objectives.
🏆Fosters a Growth Mindset: Recognizing effort, rather than just results, encourages children to view challenges as opportunities for growth, rather than fearing failure.
🥇Builds Confidence: Earning an award can make children more confident in their abilities, motivating them to try new activities and take on more challenges.
🎖️Promotes Social Skills: Awards can teach children to celebrate not only their own successes but also the accomplishments of others, promoting empathy and teamwork.
🏆Enhances Academic Motivation: Recognizing academic achievements early can foster a love for learning, helping children build enthusiasm for education from a young age.

Our Mosaic Art School holidays program.

Dental incursions🦷🦷🦷 at Home Away Home Family Day Care

🦷Outcome 1: Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity
Connection to dental incursions: Learning about dental health helps children develop a positive sense of self by understanding how to care for their bodies, including their teeth. This fosters self-reliance and responsibility for their own health.
Children feel more confident when they understand why dental hygiene is important, contributing to their self-image and encouraging independent self-care routines.
🦷Outcome 2: Children Are Connected With and Contribute to Their World
Connection to dental incursions: When dental professionals visit, children become aware of community helpers like dentists and how these individuals contribute to their health and wellbeing.
Interacting with dental professionals in a familiar setting helps children understand the role of dentists and oral health in their broader community.
🦷Outcome 3: Children Have a Strong Sense of Wellbeing
Connection to dental incursions: Teaching children about dental care promotes physical wellbeing by helping them understand how oral health is linked to their overall health.
Learning about brushing teeth, healthy eating for strong teeth, and visiting the dentist empowers children to make choices that improve their wellbeing.
🦷Outcome 4: Children Are Confident and Involved Learners
Connection to dental incursions: Hands-on activities, such as practicing brushing on dental models, stimulate children’s engagement and curiosity, encouraging active learning and problem-solving skills.
Children experiment with brushing techniques and learn about how different foods affect their teeth, reinforcing their ability to engage with and apply knowledge to their daily lives.
🦷Outcome 5: Children Are Effective Communicators
Connection to dental incursions: Dental incursions can help children learn the vocabulary related to oral health and hygiene, enhancing their ability to express concerns or ideas about their health.
Children can talk about their experiences at the dentist, describe how they care for their teeth, and understand instructions related to dental hygiene, all of which enhance communication skills.
Additional Benefits:
Promotes lifelong habits: Early exposure to the importance of oral hygiene can foster lifelong healthy habits.
Encourages emotional resilience: Understanding dental care and demystifying dental visits can reduce fear and anxiety around going to the dentist

My busy bees early morning playing with train tracks age group 2 years to 11 years old.

Child-led play time.

Paper cup Animals 🐸😻🐥🐷🐼🐤🦉🦊

The act of cutting, gluing, and assembling parts to create an animal 🐷😻🐸🐼🐥encourages problem-solving and experimentation. Children engage in open-ended exploration, trying different shapes and techniques to create their animal, which promotes creativity and cognitive development. They also engage in cause-and-effect thinking when manipulating materials.

🐷Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity�Children feel proud of their creations, choosing how to assemble their animals and expressing their individuality.
😻Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing�Fine motor skills are developed through cutting and pasting activities, and creativity fosters emotional wellbeing.
🐸Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators�Children talk about their animals and the stories they’ve created, enhancing language and storytelling skills.

Decorating a snake 🐍using leaves is a creative and nature-based 🍀🌿🍃🌱activity that encourages children to engage with the natural world while developing fine motor skills, creativity, and sensory awareness.
Outcome 1: Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity:
As children decorate their 🐍 snakes they make choices about 🍃🍂🍁🍀color, texture, and placement, which fosters a sense of identity and self-expression. Their unique creations reflect their preferences, individuality, and creativity.
Outcome 2: Children are Connected with and Contribute to Their World:
* By using leaves, 🍃🍀🌿 children become connected to the natural world, learning about the importance of plants and trees. They develop an appreciation for nature and may become more mindful of their impact on the environment, contributing to sustainability efforts.
Outcome 3: Children Have a Strong Sense of Wellbeing:
* Handling leaves and natural materials can be a calming sensory experience, contributing to emotional wellbeing. The activity also supports physical wellbeing through the development of fine motor skills as children manipulate the leaves and other materials.

Threading different shapes to make a snake is a fantastic hands-on activity that encourages fine motor development, creativity, and problem-solving.🐍🔻🔸▪️🔵🔴

Learning through Play:
Threading different shapes to make a snake is a playful way for children to explore patterns, sequences, and creativity. Learning through play is emphasized as children engage in the activity at their own pace, experimenting with different combinations of shapes and colors.

Outcome 1: Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity:
As children create their own unique snakes, they express their individuality and preferences in color, shape, and design, contributing to a strong sense of identity. The activity encourages self-expression and pride in their creations.

Outcome 4: Children are Confident and Involved Learners:
Threading requires focus and problem-solving, encouraging children to be involved learners. As they experiment with different ways to thread the shapes, they become more confident in their abilities to manipulate objects and create patterns.
Outcome 5: Children are Effective Communicators:
While threading, children can describe the shapes, colors, or patterns they are creating, enhancing their language and communication skills. Effective communication is also fostered when children share their creations with peers and explain their design choices.

Learning about snakes 🐍and snake safety is an important educational topic for young children, particularly in areas where encounters with snakes are possible. This type of learning helps children become aware of their environment, develop respect for nature, and understand how to stay safe.
🏠EYLF Principles:
*Secure, Respectful, and Reciprocal Relationships:
By teaching snake 🐍safety in a calm and supportive way, as a educator I can create a secure environment where children feel comfortable learning about potentially dangerous animals. This can foster trust and reciprocal relationships, as children rely on educators to guide them through this important knowledge.
*High Expectations and Equity
All children, regardless of background, can learn about snakes 🐍and safety. By holding high expectations, educators ensure that every child understands how to stay safe and respect wildlife, regardless of their individual experiences or fears.

🏠EYLF Practices:
*Holistic Approaches:
Learning about snakes 🐍 involves physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Children learn about the physical characteristics of snakes (cognitive), practice safety measures like standing still (physical), and build emotional resilience by learning how to manage fear in a calm, informed way (emotional).

🏠EYLF Outcomes:
*Outcome 1: Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity:
Learning about snakes 🐍 and how to stay safe empowers children to feel more confident in their ability to manage potential risks, contributing to a strong sense of identity and self-reliance. They also develop a sense of responsibility for their own wellbeing.
*Outcome 2: Children are Connected with and Contribute to Their World:
Understanding snakes 🐍 as part of the natural ecosystem helps children develop a connection to their environment. They learn about the important role snakes play in nature and develop respect for wildlife, contributing to environmental stewardship.

Early morning Dancing.

💃💃 Dancing Allow children to explore different styles of music and create their own dance movements, fostering creativity and confidence.
Outcome 3: Children Have a Strong Sense of Wellbeing:
💃🕺Dancing promotes physical wellbeing by encouraging movement and coordination, which helps with motor skill development and physical fitness. Additionally, dance allows children to express emotions, fostering emotional wellbeing. The joy of dancing can boost mood and reduce stress, contributing to overall mental health.

Outcome 4: Children are Confident and Involved Learners:
💃Through dancing children experiment with movement, rhythm, and coordination, building confidence as they master new movements and explore their physical capabilities. As they actively participate, they become involved learners, engaging with their environment and the people around them.

Outcome 5: Children are Effective Communicators:
💃🕺💃🕺Dancing is a form of non-verbal communication that allows children to express emotions, ideas, and stories through movement. Children develop an understanding of how movement can convey feelings, helping them become more expressive communicators, both verbally and physically.

Child’s Led play time. 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧
Master S said Bubble🫧🫧🫧 🫧🫧🫧Miss E said I’ll blow bubbles 🫧 for you can catch and pop up ok….
Outcome 1: Children Have a Strong Sense of Identity:
🫧 As children engage with bubble play, they make choices, experiment with different techniques, and express joy and excitement. This freedom to explore and engage in self-directed play fosters a strong sense of identity, as children develop confidence in their abilities.

Outcome 2: Children are Connected with and Contribute to Their World:
🫧Bubble play often involves shared experiences, encouraging children to interact with peers, take turns, and cooperate in chasing or blowing bubbles. These social interactions help children connect with others and contribute to a shared play experience, building a sense of community.

Outcome 4: Children are Confident and Involved Learners:
🫧Bubble play encourages children to explore, experiment, and problem-solve. Whether figuring out how to blow the biggest bubble or how to catch them before they pop, children are engaged in active learning, building their confidence as they take on challenges and celebrate their successes.

Cherry Blossom - spring activity
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This is a simple and beautiful craft for children that helps develop fine motor skills while teaching them about nature.

R U OK?Day (Thursday 12 September 2024) is our National Day of Action dedicated to reminding everyone that any day is the day to ask, 'are you OK?' and support those struggling with life.

By taking the time for an R U OK? conversation and genuinely listening with an open mind, we can all help the people in our world feel supported and connected.

Let the people in your world know you’re here, to really hear, because a conversation could change a life.

Ball 🏀 throwing and Catching practice
Improve hand-eye coordination, reaction time, and motor skills with this fun ball throwing and catching practice!

Outside Lunchtime 🍱🥘🧆🌮🥗
Self-feeding skills are an essential part of a child’s development, promoting autonomy, fine motor skills, and a sense of responsibility for their own wellbeing.

* Children have a strong sense of wellbeing (Outcome 3)
Self-feeding skills are directly related to children's physical wellbeing. As they learn to feed themselves, they gain control over their hunger and develop a positive relationship with food. This supports their physical health and overall sense of wellbeing.

* Children are confident and involved learners (Outcome 4)
Learning to feed themselves encourages problem-solving and perseverance. Children may experiment with different ways to hold utensils or try new foods, building their confidence in learning through trial and error.

*Partnerships
Encouraging self-feeding at home and in educational settings is often a partnership between families and educators. Families can share strategies and insights that help educators provide consistent support, while educators can guide parents on ways to nurture self-feeding skills at home.

Helping Peers and Participate in everyday Task.
Children are connected with and contribute to their world (Outcome 2)
Element 2.1: Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation.
Link: Helping peers fosters a sense of connection and teamwork, emphasizing the importance of belonging to a group and supporting others, which builds empathy and community awareness.



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Can you spot the culprit??? Do you know who’s eating all of our plants????
We love watching them growing every day. Caterpillar and snails love to munch on our plant.
When children arrive early morning they check outside to see where is our cheeky caterpillar is hiding. 🐛🐛🐌🐌 Home Away Home Family Day Care