Celebrating “Care for Newcomer Children” (CNC)
Join us at this year’s conference featuring dynamic guest speakers and interactive workshops. Gain insights and practical ideas for you and your program! With a focus on managing change, multicultural activity ideas and CNC orientation, this year’s conference will provide resources and information to share with administrators and colleagues.
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Spread the word… Culture Days Across Canada
On September 28th, 29th and 30th, communities across Canada will put local arts and culture on display… and everyone is invited to take part! The third annual Culture Days is a coast-to-coast movement that features thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities with artists, historians, architects and other creative forces.
Culture days are a great opportunity for families to celebrate culture and creativity in the community. Visit
www.culturedays.ca to find out what events are happening near you and spread the word!
Make, Experiment, and Explore With Kids
Creative Experiments for Kids: Tinkerlab is an award-winning site that shares kid-friendly projects and ideas that exist at the intersection of art and science.
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Helping children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
You know about the five senses—sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell—but you may not be aware that most of us have two additional sensory systems that help us to control and integrate the information we gather. Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) find it difficult to process and act on information received through these senses.
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The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bond: Focus on Children in Poverty
Play is essential to the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being of children beginning in early childhood. It is a natural tool for children to develop resiliency as they learn to cooperate, overcome challenges, and negotiate with others. Play also allows children to be creative.
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Child Care Human Resources Sector Council has an HR Toolkit
Administering a program for newcomer children? Looking for information and resources to help you with HR? Administrators working in child care often lack time and capacity to effectively manage their human resources. The
CCHRSC's HR Toolkit is an online resource that contains a wealth of HR information, best practices, tools, policies, procedures and templates that can be downloaded and tailored to meet the individual requirements of administrators working in a variety of Early Childhood Education and Care settings.
Celebrate multiculturalism with a “Kids Around the World” bulletin board
Canadian Multiculturalism Day is an opportunity to celebrate our diversity! Here’s a
fun activity idea that can also personalize and bring culture into your space.
New French Resources Now Available
As part of the ongoing mission to make translated documents available and better support French programs, you’ll find that we’ve added insert number newly translated resources to the website!
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1 in 100: Bringing Epilepsy Out of the Shadows
Epilepsy is the second most common neurological disorder, but many people don't know how to react to seizures or administer first aid. Caregivers play a central role in the safety, acceptance and self-development of the child who has seizures in the classroom. In this workshop, Jodi Maruncic and Leah Sultan-Khan, from Epilepsy Toronto explain about cultural myths and misconceptions, seizure types and their effects on the brain, how seizures affect children at different stages of development, and how to respond efficiently and effectively.
Terrific Toddlers
The third of four workshops from the 2011 Professional Development Conference for LINC Childminders. This workshop designed for caregivers working with children ages 18-36 months, this workshop will provide an overview of the developmental, social and emotional characteristics of this age group. Amy McKague from kidsLINK also presents the use of Authentic Choices as a strategy to support toddlers' growth and development, with an emphasis on nurturing their sense of autonomy and independence.
