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Part of encouraging children to enjoy learning is by making it fun. The team at Young Academics in Sydney believes in developing creative ways to teach children communication, critical thinking and maths. We believe that this not only helps children learn from a young age, but it also helps to foster a love of learning for the future. We know that many preschool children are stuck at home due to the current public health crisis. However, that shouldn’t stop parents from playing fun and educational preschool maths games with their children. Even when social distancing days are over, it’s healthy to incorporate these preschool maths games at home. Your children will look forward to learning and will become masters at maths!

What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? What do you taste? What do you feel?
Encouraging children to consider and answer these questions is the vital part of sensory play.

There is much debate surrounding the link between hygiene and childcare centres.

At Young Academics, we understand that philosophy encompasses the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge. Our childcare philosophy therefore encourages the systematic investigation and discovery of each and every one of our students’ personalities, through the lifelong pursuit of learning. Young Academics services are dedicated to implementing the Early Years Learning Framework and National Quality Standards to best serve your child’s learning process. Our early childhood teaching philosophy can be broken down into 3 principles:

Preschool philosophy over time has changed, merging play and education, now known as play-based learning. It is imperative that parents recognise the importance of this partnership between play and learning, and adapt a new focus on play ideas at home. Here are a few inexpensive play based preschool activities for toddlers which can be done in the comfort of your own home:

Gardening allows children to learn responsibility, self-confidence, creativity, cooperation, reasoning and discovery. They gain an appreciation of their natural environment and an understanding of patterns and life cycles.

I know we have all been on the receiving end of “look after yourself” or “take care of yourself” after catching up with people and you have gone away just saying “thank you, you too”.  Once you turn around, you have not given that statement a second thought.  I know it is hard to ‘take care’ and ‘look after’ yourself with everything going on around you where you are constantly looking after and taking care of others. 

Like an iceberg, the bulk of behaviour for both children and adults is found below the surface: it is what gives rise to the part that is visible. Behaviour is triggered from feelings, which stem from the more deeply rooted needs of a person. 

Toilet training, it is a part of growing up. A very important step into society – being able to use the toilet.  So how can we help assist in the toilet training journey of the children in our care?

Encouragement and praise are two very different ways to communicate with someone.  Encouragement is when you provide statements or points that are specific.  Phrases such as “you really worked hard” or “look at all the green you used in your painting” or “I bet you are proud that, you finished that whole puzzle by yourself”. Children who are ‘encouraged’ tend to develop a stronger self-motivation and pride in their work because the encouragement focuses on what they are doing well, not what the adult thinks about their work.