Playdough Recipes and Play Variations

Here we’ve got an all-time favourite recipe of early childhood teachers for cooked playdough.

We also include recipes for:

– uncooked playdough

– special playdough suitable for shaping into Christmas tree ornaments and gifts to be painted later when hardened.

Playdough is great fun but when the novelty wears off children can become bored and their creativity declines. So we give you some ideas to keep the playdough fun alive, and invite you to contribute your favourite recipes and ideas too.

First, you may wish to consider cultural concerns on the use of food ingredients and how you may mitigate these concerns.

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Under-5s Rugby

Teaching Rugby to Children in Early Childhood Education. This fosters a sense of belonging, pride, and achievement.

Rugby is part of NZ’s culture and central to our cultural identity. (See another article on following and celebrating the Rugby World Cup with children

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How Can We Make Work Safer for ECE Teaching Staff?

May 30, 2016. Early childhood education workers are suffering from stress, physical injuries and bullying according to the results of a survey. The Survey of

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Controlled Crying.

This article discusses the Controlled Crying method. It gives clarity to conflicting opinions about whether this is a good practice and its benefits. We discuss if this method should and can be used in early childhood education (ECE) settings and in our teaching practice. Suggestions are included for other ways of support

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The Relationship between Early Childhood Education and Care and English Proficiency at School Entry for Bilingual Children in Australia

FULL REFERENCE: O’Connor, M., O’Connor, E.J., Kvalsvig, A., & Goldfeld, S. (2014). The relationship between early childhood education and care and English proficiency at school entry for bilingual children in Australia. NZ Research in Early Childhood Education Journal. Special Issue: Early Childhood Policy, 17, 161-181.

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ABSTRACT: Children from diverse language backgrounds who enter school with limited proficiency in English may face additional challenges in negotiating this new context. Hence, it is important to consider what antecedent factors might promote English proficiency at school entry. Engagement with early childhood education and care (ECEC) programmes may be one such factor. Drawing on population-level data from the teacher-rated Australian Early Development Index (n=261,147), this study aims to explore the relationship between ECEC (including pre-school, day-care, and other informal non-parental care) and English proficiency at school entry for Australian children from bilingual backgrounds. The findings reveal that attendance at pre-school (OR=1.53, 95% CI=1.37-1.70) was associated with increased odds of being proficient in English at school entry for bilingual children, whereas attending day-care without a pre-school programme (OR=0.78, 95% CI=0.68-0.89), more informal non-parental care (OR=0.72, 95% CI=0.65-0.80), or parental care only (OR=0.59, 95% CI=0.52-0.67) was associated with decreased odds of proficiency in English at school entry. These findings suggest that engagement with pre-school programmes prior to school entry may well present a plausible and modifiable approach to improving English proficiency at school entry for bilingual children, with important implications for policy and programmes that aim to reduce inequality in skills at school entry.

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Transition to school; bilingual; Australian Early Development Index (AEDI); school entry, ECE participation.

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The Importance of a Play Based Approach

The Play Based Approach – Helping young learners to flourish.

The one thing every parent, caregiver and educator wishes most for a young child is to have a happy and fulfilled childhood.

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Government Reaching Target to Get More Children into ECE

July 19, 2013. Just four regions are currently meeting the government’s target for participation in early childhood education according to figures released this week. The

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