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Early Childhood Education
Watercolor Lily Pad Art Project for Kids
School-aged kids will learn how to paint a watercolor lily pad scene in this fun...
Black History Month Research an Inventor Worksheets
February is Black History Month in both the USA and Canada, making it the perfec...
Special Days in February 2025
This calendar of Special Days in February is a great resource for finding a wide...
Fairy Tale Spin-A-Story Story Starters
Looking for a fun way to encourage your students’ story writing attempts? Look n...
Printable Fairy Tale Crossword Puzzles: Boost Vocabular...
Looking for a fun and effective way to bring classic fairy tales to life as stud...
Fairy Tale I Spy Puzzles for Students in Grades K-4
Looking for a fun and engaging way to enhance your students’ observation and cri...
Fun Fairy Tale Word Search Puzzles for Grades 2-5
Bring classic fairy tales to life as you engage your students’ vocabulary and sp...
Inspiring Women Quotes Coloring Pages
These printable Inspiring Women Quotes Coloring Pages are a great way to engage ...
March Special Days: Holidays & Celebrations in March 2025
March is packed with exciting, educational opportunities for engaging students w...
Camping Doubles Addition Roll ‘n Cover Game
Teach an easy-to-learn addition game with a cute, camping theme. Here is a free ...
Cute Adopt-a-Pet Reading Kit to Encourage Your Students...
Take this fun and cute idea to get your students reading at home! Set up an adop...
8 Groundhog Day Videos for Kids
While Groundhog Day only lasts for one day – here are some handy teacher-approve...
Goodbye Letter for the End of the Year
The end of the year is bittersweet for teachers! Here is a sweet and sincere goo...
Valentines Day Themed Class Book Freebie – Love Is…
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, finding fun ways to tie in the love to c...
What about skin color?
Scene: Two young children, preschoolers, playing in our dramatic play center, wh...
Why teach about Black Lives Matter to preschoolers?
I am posed this question a lot. Some have challenged me, saying that Black Liv...
Can we talk together?
This magic moment: It is indoor recess and they play together, building with ou...
COVID 19: Virtual Learning
Just like that, we will not meet in our classroom, but virtually only, preschool...
COVID 19 - What should kids reflect on?
We plan to make frequent phonecalls to the children, sharing the responsibility ...
COVID - 19: How to explain to kids?
I made a short video for my students, to explain this coronavirus pandemic in ...
COVID 19 - What happens when we Zoom together?
We had a very special Zoom call yesterday afternoon, initiated by one of our ...
COVID-19 How might we help parents?
What a shock to families, to be home full-time, around the clock, with your ener...
COVID 19 - How have things changed?
Truly, I should be writing more in this blog, during this new normal. My teachi...
COVID-19: What is tough?
There is so much that is so tough about virtual teaching. This old gal is hopin...
COVID-19: What do the parents say?
Here's what we're hearing about virtual learning: "We love the read-alouds!" "...
COVID-19: What do you know how to do?
We've been asking the children, what do you know how to do, all by yourself? T...
COVID 19 - What is there to savor?
Here we are in the middle of week eight of shelter-in-place. I am finding that m...
COVID-19: Anti-bias early childhood
This morning, we kicked off the 2020-2021 school year's Anti-Bias Early Childho...
COVID means - What should this blog share now?
As another calendar year draws to a close, I find myself musing about this blog....
How does vocabulary grow?
Frog* loves to talk. She has been sharing her voice with us since she was very y...
How do we go on?
Yesterday, when our nation seemed to fall apart at its seams,when an angry mob s...
Why are we skipping this?
Earlier this month, a teacher friend called me to check on their read-aloud of t...
What if we head to the creek?
We love exploring Sligo Creek park with Frog. We have a ritual where we collect ...
Should I wash dishes?
Is there anything more fun than water for children? Frog's loves to play at the...
What is another perspective?
There it is, in the distance!As we walked through the townhouse parking lot, on ...
What about a picture walk?
How about a few photos of some of the fun we have enjoyed during March, without ...
Are you having a tantrum?
It was time to get dressed for the day and she insisted on wearing yesterday's d...
Hands-on Learning
I have had the privilege of presenting a number of hands-on learning workshop re...
Classroom Management Should Be Easier than Herding Cats
I am currently at NAEYC’s Professional Development Institute (PDI) in Baltimore....
Quiet! Actress is Rehearsing
I recently visited my daughter’s family and had to chuckle about the sign on her...
Creating Experiences for Brain Development
After many years, we have a new baby in our family. My grandson, Jack, has beco...
The ‘E’ in STEM/STEAM
I have been around for many years and the education community always grabs on to...
Classroom Guidance and Support
This fall I have been called upon to help in many classrooms with guidance and m...
The Blurred Lines of Assessment
There are clear and concise images displayed in most paintings and art. However...
Come and learn with Deborah of Teach Preschool
For as long as I have been blogging, I have had parents write to me an...
Create Sea Snacks for the Whole Family
Create some healthy under-the-sea-themed snacks to share during a picnic, barbec...
Quality Educational Apps with a Nature Theme
Summer is a great time to get outside and enjoy nature. Enjoy these Nature Theme...
End of Summer Activity: Bird Feeder
Create a decorative, mobile-inspired bird feeder from items found in your back y...
End of Summer Activity: Hammering Cotton Balls
What child doesn’t enjoy the act of smashing and breaking? Try this easy activit...
3 Gift Ideas for Kids Who Want to Code
Coding is the latest craze among tech lovers and their kids. Consider these toys...
Top 2 Toys for Hands-on Play!
At KinderTown we love high-tech toys for the youngest learner but we are also pa...
Skip Counting by Coloring Rainbow Tens
Here is a fun math activity to help your child practice skip counting by 10s up ...
STEM Toys for All Ages
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is a hot topic right now...
End of Summer Activity: Homemade Zip Lines
Race homemade rockets, airplanes, birds, or your own creation on homemade zip li...
Reverse Art & sustainability
Re-use, Recycle, Revive, Re-invent, Revamp, Renew and Reduce!One of the things ...
Our Visits to Opal Aged Care
Every fortnight our Kinder children visit Opal aged care. These excursions help ...
Beach/Bush Kinder 2019
Inverloch Childcare is excited to announce the introduction of our newly develo...
Road Safety Visit
Judy the school crossing supervisor from Inverloch, and Julie the school crossin...
Our Digging Patch
Outdoor play is a big part of healthy growth, learning, development and wellbein...
Christmas is coming...
Pastor Bibb started the Advent season off. He taught us all about the colors th...
Field Trip to Springwater Greenhouse
Our field trip was so much fun! We toured the greenhouse, planted flowers, and ...
All Things Spring- weather, bugs, plants, and flowers
Making wind with our weather unit. FARM Wee...
Child Care Subsidy is Returning July 13 – 5 Things You ...
The Child Care Subsidy (CCS) is returning on July 13, and some families could mi...
What you can do these July School Holidays…
School holidays have come around again (that was fast!) and fortunately, it will...
Relaxed Activity Level Requirements – How to access 100...
The post Relaxed Activity Level Requirements – How to access 100 hours of CCS ap...
Homemade Playdough Recipe
Looking for a never-fail homemade playdough recipe that has been tried & tested ...
Temporary Financial Hardship for Child Care is availabl...
The post Temporary Financial Hardship for Child Care is available via ACCS appea...
Sunkids partner with Baby Give Back.
With many young Queensland families facing difficult times at present, leading c...
How Sunkids Help Parents Return to Work.
The post How Sunkids Help Parents Return to Work. appeared first on Sunkids.
The Foundation of Sunkids based on Theorists
In 2008 Sunkids Philosophy and Curriculum was founded on the beliefs of three ma...
The worthy challenge of Employee Value at Sunkids Child...
The childcare industry in Australia faces significant staffing challenges, which...
Spirit of Sunkids Giveaways
Dear Families, As we move closer and closer to the holiday season, Sunkids are p...
Success Tips for Working from Home with Children
Whether you’re at home with a baby, toddler, pre-schooler or a school-aged child...
Marking ANZAC Day in 2020
ANZAC Day, Saturday 25 April, is an important date in Australia’s history. Ordin...
5 Simple Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday 10 May. This year it is just as important as...
‘How movement and physical activity impacts children’s ...
By Robyn Papworth, Developmental Educator, Exercise Physiologist How does your b...
Top Tips for Transitioning Back to School and Kinder
Whether you’ve found being at home together a time to treasure, or the constant ...
Four ways to boost immunity every day
As the country and world start to ease restrictions and move forward with COVID-...
New Website Launching Soon!
After months and months of hard work, sweat and tears, our newly designed Bonker...
Stay wise, sanitise!
Schools have reopened, parks are accessible again and we’re about to see restaur...
In This Together for Wellness and Peace
Togetherness has been an overwhelming focus throughout this entire year. We’ve h...
Music and Yoga – The best of friends!
Individually, music and yoga are powerful tools for enhancing wellbeing. Togethe...
An NYC G&T Success Story
FasTracKids is a gifted program (for gifted and potentially gifted students) des...
Prep for NYCS Gifted Testing
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article exploring the lengths to w...
Report Highlights Importance of Affordable Supplemental...
A Spike in Failures The end of 2018 brought to a close the first five years of C...
How to Build an Engineer: Start Young
Can you imagine? Today’s parents can’t even envision the specifics of the jobs o...
STE(A)M + Soft Skills
Sometimes people ask us why we do this. Why education? Why kids? Why America? Ev...