What are the Challenges in Accessing Early Childhood Education and Care for Children in Refugee Families?
For refugee households, stable child-care arrangements are a key to working parents’ employment success and family self-sufficiency. Given the well-documented impact of early learning services on children’s school readiness and long-term cognitive, socio-emotional, and educational outcomes, access to high-quality, consistent early childhood education and care (ECEC) is critical for those who are often at greatest risk of falling behind.
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Start with Play
The
Start with Play website is a wonderful resource for professionals and parents alike! It available in both French and English, and describes five areas of skill development in the early years. - For each one, it also provides links to the PEI Early Learning Framework and a resource article that is full of information and classroom ideas.
How much do you know about life-threatening food allergies?
It's Food Allergy Awareness Week - a chance to shine a spotlight on the seriousness of food allergies and improve understanding and awareness of this potentially life-threatening medical condition. Find helpful resources for your program and find out more
here!
Ontario Expands Free Dental Care for Kids
More than 323,000 children from low-income families are getting free dental care through the new Healthy Smiles Ontario program. Let parents know they can apply
here.
Spread the word about your local International Children’s Festival!
There are so many wonderful events going on for families at International Children's Festivals across the country in May and June - learn more and share information about the events near you in
Vancouver,
Surrey,
Saskatchewan,
Winnipeg and
Ottawa.
Why Are the Early Years So Important?
The
Science of Early Child Development has beautiful, inspiring and information packed videos about the vital importance of the early years. Their multi-media, multi-edition interactive educational resources are designed to share science and information that shows how research links to practice in supporting the early years.
Video – Watch Language Skills Grow When They Make Playdough!
Lanie Igtanloc teaches her students to make playdough by measuring, mixing, and describing. While experimenting,
watch how Ms. Igtanloc builds her students’ language skills by having them describe their observations.
WEBINAR – The science of dual language learning for children birth through age five: Effective practices – May 11
In
this webinar, participants will review what is known about best practices for young dual language learners (DLL) from birth to five. Classroom examples of research-based strategies to support the development and achievement of children who are not native English speakers will also be discussed.
NEW! START KIDS BRIGHT Webinar Series
The
START KIDS BRIGHT Webinar Series highlights best practices in early learning through five webinars around the topics of community engagement, dual language learning, interactions between children and teachers, and infant and toddler classroom best practices. The goal of this series is to equip early childhood practitioners with the necessary tools to elevate the quality of early education in their communities.
Celebrate Week of the Young Child™ – April 10-16
It's NAEYC's annual Week of the Young Child™, celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers and families. And in celebration, they've put together this wonderful
list of resources and activity ideas!
