Indoor Snowy Day Activities for Preschoolers
Think INSIDE the box! Bring the snow indoors with a variety of activities and containers that will please everyone!
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Materials/Equipment List for Preschool Child Care Centres
Healthy Child Manitoba has a
list of materials/equipment that you might find helpful when purchasing for your site!
Childhood 101
At
Childhood 101 you will find information, discussion and inspiration for play, learning and creativity with kids, recipe ideas, positive parenting and more...
Looking for ideas for creative play and learning?
Learning4kids is an online resource where parents, educators can find fun activities and play ideas that will help promote learning and development.
Best Start Bilingual Resources for Families
The Best Start Resource Centre has useful fact sheets, brochures, decals, posters, DVDs, program planning guides and reports - all available in both
English and
French!
Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care Curriculum Framework
Manitoba is committed to supporting quality in early learning and child care (ELCC) programs. A key component is
Early Returns: Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care Curriculum Framework for Preschool Centres and Nursery Schools. This curriculum framework supports staff at preschool centres and nursery schools to develop, describe and enhance their curriculum through child-centred care. This framework helps staff design playbased, developmentally appropriate interactions, relationships, environments and experiences to allow all children to develop to their fullest potential.
Looking for multicultural kids songs and nursery rhymes?
You'll find the lyrics to children's songs from around the world in both English and the original language
here!
Updated Occupational Standards now available
The CCHRSC has updated its Occupational Standards for Child Care Administrators for the first time since they were developed in 2006 to ensure they are up-to-date and reflect all the skills, knowledge and abilities administrators may require to work effectively. At the same time, a new Occupational Profile on School-Age Child Care has been created and the Infant Care Profile developed in 2010 has been enhanced. The profiles are addenda to the Occupational Standards for Early Childhood Educators. Read more...
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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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.
