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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
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February 3, 2021
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Kia ora, this week how children at Buckle My Shoe Early Learning Centre are celebrating Waitangi Day. Also, how to scaffold your child's mental health and emotional wellbeing, in early childhood and beyond.
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Commemorating Waitangi Day at child care
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February 6 is much more than just a public holiday. It's the date on which the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, back in 1840, and this national day is an opportunity to reflect on our founding document and commemorate, 'The coming together of the peoples of New Zealand in a Treaty partnership.'
In the early childhood education (ECE) setting, there are lots of ways to mark Waitangi Day and teach tamariki about New Zealand's history and culture.
At Buckle My Shoe Early Learning Centre, music, movement, words, images, and special items and activities are used to weave Waitangi Day into tamariki's early learning. So, let's see how this ECE service approaches the Day and teaches tamariki about a defining date in New Zealand's nationhood:
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Key ways to support your child's mental health
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Good mental health is a powerful force in our children's lives. It enables youngsters to think, feel, act and interact in positive ways, and this kind of upbeat, resilient headspace has benefits both in the moment, and over the long-term.
Raising Children says that kids with good mental health feel happy and positive about themselves, enjoy their life, learn well, have healthy connections with others, are able to manage 'big feelings' (like worry, sadness or anger), and can bounce back when the going gets tough.
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