A comprehensive guide on how to use the early learning site – whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or a daycare/day home operator.
A comprehensive guide on how to use the early learning site – whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or a daycare/day home operator.
Learning cannot take place without assessment. It’s especially important children are given opportunities to evaluate and participant in their own learning. This document lists what to look for in an early learning classroom.
How can you create an ideal environment for learning another language? Also, find out why maintaining proficiency in the home language is key to a young child’s success in school.
Create a learning environment that supports language and literacy development.
This document contains information about core math skills, such as compensation, patterns and cardinality. The skills are also identified in the math-related play outlined in the other math downloads on the site.
Mathematical reasoning and problem solving are just some of the math skills gained by playing with a simple set of blocks.
A simple bedtime story can open the door to another “what if” conversation that involves math.
Even a walk along and across a muddy creek can be explored deeply in a mathematical way.
Read how one child develops correspondence and compensation skills, thanks to a simple game of jumping frogs, rocks or marbles.
Breakfast time can be a great opportunity to think mathematically, as one mom and her son discovered.
Many children’s books address mathematical ideas in fun and interesting ways. Simply reading them, however, won’t instill deep mathematical understanding. But when kids can model the stories and are encouraged to find ways to generalize the mathematical ideas the stories contain, books can provide great opportunities for deepening mathematical understanding.
Ratios are the name of the game when a young child decides to make “soup” out of different types of marbles.
A simple set of dice provides opportunities for numerical recognition, addition and subtraction.
Embedding problems in a rich way is something many teachers struggle with. Find out how a good problem encourages students to reason about what can change, by how much, and what must stay the same in order to preserve certain aspects of the original problem.
Adding food colouring to water is not only a great way to explore different colour combinations, but to allow your child to systemically work through all the possibilities.