Healthy Smiles, Healthy Kids!
Good oral health is important to childrens’ overall health. Yet, for some, regular dental care may not be affordable. Healthy Smiles Ontario is a program for children 17 and under who do not have access to any form of dental coverage. If eligible, children will get regular dental services at no cost.
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Gender Roles
The latest edition of the ANCIE Bulletin “Gender Roles” explores the gender gap and the influence of gender in actions, decisions, interactions and expectations of newcomer children and their families.
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Play it Fair! Human Rights Education Toolkit for Children
Equitas is an International Centre for Human Rights Education, and they’ve developed a toolkit that helps promote human rights, non discrimination and peaceful conflict resolution within non-formal education programs for children. By encouraging acceptance of differences, the Play It Fair! Program is equipping children and youth to work together to solve conflicts and participate in the diverse communities in which they live.
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Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Educate and Heal
Quality communication can improve the lives of children.
Unicef has developed a resource pack that facilitates the process of learning about the critical importance of communication that is age-appropriate and child-friendly, holistic, positive, strengths-based and inclusive.
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Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency Self-Assessment Checklist
The mission of the National Centre for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University Centre for Child and Human Development is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
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Creating a “climate of delight” while children learn: Dr. Rachel Langford
Play is important to learning. Research tells us again and again that when children play, exploring and experimenting with material, they learn through those experiences. Dr. Rachel Langford offers some strategies to create a "climate of delight" while children learn.
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Math Skills Made Fun for Children – Alka Burman
Children who have early experiences with numeracy will have better outcomes when they learn math concepts in school. Strategies used need to be motivating and engaging, and should follow a child-centered approach. Providing opportunities to explore and manipulate real materials will allow children to become comfortable with numeracy and math.Alka Burman, Early Literacy Specialist, shares some ideas for activities to make math learning fun.
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Choosing Books for Young Children – Alka Burman
Children often learn about the world and their place in it through books. Books can be an important way for children to share their feelings, concerns and emotions; to learn new concepts or reinforce concepts they already know; and to expand their horizons and have new experiences. Alka Burman, Early Literacy Specialist, shares some tips on how to choose books for young readers.
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Print All Around Us – Alka Burman
A print rich environment is one in which children interact with many forms of print including signs, labelled centres, wall stories, word displays, labelled murals, bulletin boards, charts, poems and other materials. With adult support, children gain literacy skills by interacting with print in their surroundings. Alka Burman, Early Literacy Specialist, offers strategies to encourage children's involvement with print.
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Constructive Play in Early Learning Environments – Alka Burman
Constructive play is an organized form of play that is, in many ways, goal oriented and thoughtful. Children who are engaged in constructive play use materials to create something, and this increases in complexity as they get older. Alka Burman, Early Literacy Specialist, discusses these concepts.
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