Creating Magical Play Spaces: Inspiring Early Childhood Environments Creating a space that promotes curiosity, exploration, discovery and play is not a simple task. Trends change over time...so what's the latest and greatest in creating an environment that truly does captures the image of the child and children's play? It's a setting that focuses on the […]
Observing Play with Intent: Enriching your Emergent Curriculum Approach Ever take the time to sit back and simply observe children playing? The conversations they have, even by themselves. The curiosity they show when they are exploring something new. The expressions of satisfaction when they are deep in thought in play and when they reach a […]
Playful Planning: Enriching Your Emergent Curriculum Approach Playful learning experiences promote a sense of curiosity, exploration, and confidence, which are what we all strive to achieve when we plan for our early childhood environment and our children's experiences. To achieve this, one of the most popular and best approaches is the emergent curriculum approach. This […]
Finding Your Wings: Exploring Curriculum Frameworks in Early Learning Are you looking to learn more about the Alberta Curriculum Framework? Whether you've gone through the training or not, it can still be a little overwhelming switching to this approach to learning. The early learning curriculum framework not only introduces some new language to use (and […]
Wonderful World of STEM: Exploration and Discovery through STEM, STEAM & STREAM STEM - Science, Technology, engineering and Math; STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math; STREAM - Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts and Math. No matter which acronym you use, STEM activities are bound to be a hit with children as they encourage problem […]
From Crying to Smiling: Understanding Children’s Behaviours Ever wonder WHY some children react in ways we just don't understand? The screaming, biting and hitting came from no where! When a seemingly small situation throws them right into a major meltdown. Feeling like you're at a standstill of what to do next? Well, then this webinar […]
The Daily Struggle: Facilitating Conflict Resolution Conflict is something that we all experience on a daily basis. We all have our own perceptions and experiences and opinions, and with children...these opinions can get very vocal! It's up to us, the adults in their lives, to facilitate how to resolve conflicts constructively so that our children […]
The Magic of Loose Parts: Promoting Play with Loose Parts Loose Parts! The possibilities are endless when we provide an arrange of loose parts (open-ended) materials for children to explore. Remember the possibilities of a cardboard box?! Was it a den? A space ship? Or a 3D canvas to paint and draw on? The possibilities […]
Caring Connections: Interactions that Matter The comfort of an encouraging smile. The caring reassurance after a fight with a friend. The excitement of co-celebration as they discovery a new skill. How we interact with children has a huge impact on children's growth and development, not only their social emotional development, but also in their abilities […]
Finding Your Wings: Transitioning to the Alberta Curriculum Framework Are you looking to learn more about the Alberta FLIGHT Framework? Whether you've gone through the training or not, it can still be a little overwhelming switching to this approach to learning. Flight not only introduces some new language to use (and to share with families), […]