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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
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September 1, 2021
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Kia ora, this week three ways your early learning service may support your child to be more eco-aware. Also, how to use a trip to the local playground to strengthen your child's memory and observation skills.
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The benefits of an eco-friendly child care approach
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All around New Zealand, early childhood education (ECE) services are helping our youngest generation to be good global citizens.
When it comes to sustainable living, the simple act of upcycling materials for craft projects, or growing veggies on-site, teaches great habits early on, and there are wide-ranging benefits when your child attends a 'green' service.
Here are three key ways that ECE services help little ones to grow their capabilities, community-mindedness and care for Mother Earth.
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Strengthening your child's memory at the playground
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Parents and grandparents can be prone to forgetfulness, and although it's important to strengthen our 'memory muscles' in later life, it's also important to train your child's brain to remember information and recall it when needed.
A good memory builds a strong foundation for early learning, and the American neuroscientist, Lisa Genova, suggests that we can all enhance our memory by improving our noticing skills. That is, by perceiving things with our senses, and paying attention to them.
This means that although a card game, like Concentration, will exercise your preschooler's recall powers, you can also use a trip to the playground to give their memory muscles a work-out, and help them become better 'noticers' and, in turn, learners.
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