COVID-19 RELEVANT RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES OF KIDS R KIDS

KIDS R KIDS Early Learning Covid-19 Pandemic Protocol Policy

KIDS R KIDS Pandemic Protocol Policy Agreement.

                     Video of How to Sign A Document Electronically (at the end I forgot to say to send go up to top right hand corner and click there)

Our Health Screening Tool / Checklist has to be completed everymorning before you come to daycare.  It is a Google Form and you fill it out as well as take your child's temperature before you head out. 

***It is also classroom specific so it is IMPERATIVE that you know what classroom your child is assigned to***

BABY Health Screen Tool / Checklist (Our Baby Room) 

TODDLER Health Screen Tool / Checklist (Both Toddler Rooms)

PRESCHOOL PLUS: 3 YEAR and UP! Health Screen Tool / Checklist (Both older classrooms)

Province of Nova Scotia COVID-19 Guidance for Childcare Settings   

Province of Nova Scotia Guidelines for Communicable Disease Prevention and Control for Child Care Settings

VIDEOS FOR MOMS AND DADS AND KIDS

TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE HEALTH SCREENINGS

*****BETWEEN EACH CHILD BEING SCREEN THE SCREENING AREA IS RESET FOR THE NEXT FAMILY: areas that were touched are sanitized / disinfected***** 

 KIDS R KIDS Early Learning Ctr Parent Program Handbook (previously known as Parent Policy Manual)

ARTICLES ON PLAY BASED LEARNING BEING BEST!!!!  BETTER THAN ACADEMIC! 

• The New Deficiency, Formerly Know as "Childhood"
• Finnish Kids Don't Learn To Read In Kindergarten. They Turn Out Great Anyway.
• If We Know Play-Based Learning Works, Why Don't We Do It?
• Children Should Work Less Hard and Play More at School, Says Headteachers leader.
• How Todays Preschoolers Are Actually Harming Kids
• The Process Of Art
• Worksheets Don't Work Try Reggio Inspired Mathematics 
• First day of kindergarten: A key transition
• Modern parenting may hinder brain development
• The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues
• schemasin children's play
• What is a Provocation? | Reggio Inspired Learning
• Outdoor learning in the early years
• Seeing the Brilliance of Children – Understanding Brain Development
• Is My Child Ready for Kindergarten?
• The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders: Peter Gray at TEDxNavesink
• The importance of destructive play for babies and toddlers
• Message in a Backpack™ Things Every Parent Should Know about Play
• How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
• Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum
• THE SCRIBBLE: WORTH A CLOSER LOOK
• Here's what a four-year-old should know
• The following documents and articles contain some great resourcesand information on the importance of play, process (vs. product) art, loose parts, and the Reggio Emilia and Forest School approaches 
• How does playing with dirt support our play-based curriculum?
• The Cost of Ignoring Developmentally Appropriate Practice
• Remembering the Soulfulness of Play ~ Trusting the Intelligence of Play to Raise a Child
• Research finds no advantage in learning to read from age five
• Why a seemingly chaotic pre-K class may be the best kind
• 7 Awesome Reasons Why Kids Need To Get Muddy
• Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
• New research finds more 'Power' in 'Play' than originally believed
• The Cruel Assertion That Your Five-Year-Old Is "Falling Behind"
• In Conversation With Sudeshna Chatterjee, On A Child’s Right To Play
• 40 Astounding Benefits of Outdoor Nature Play for Kids
• Risk: An essential ingredient in children’s play
• Unicef finds Hong Kong parents value free play for their children (but don’t really know what it is)
• Rethinking Risk: The importance of outdoor risky play for children’s health

BLOCK PLAY

• Block Play:  Experiences in Cooperative Learning and Living by Sally Cartwright , Child Care Information Exchange 5/95 :  pgs 39 - 40

SCREEN TIME

• Screentime Is Making Kids Moody, Crazy, and Lazy
• Derby school urges parents to put down phones and talk to children
• Giving Your Child a Smartphone Is “Like Giving Them Drugs,” Says Top Addiction Expert
• Screen-time is associated with inattention problems in preschoolers: Results from the CHILD birth cohort study

MISC

• 4 Things Children Don't Need (And a Few They do)
• The Struggle Is... OK in Early Childhood Education 
• How Saying "Good Job" with Your Children is NOT GOOD! 
• Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
• Children should learn about ‘stable and healthy same-sex relationships’, guidance says
• We Should Treat Early Childhood Educators as Valued Employees
• Toddlers Want to Help and We Should Let Them
• Infancy and early childhood matter so much because of attachment
• Learned Helplessness: Let’s Not Foster It in Children!
• How Mister Rogers became a timeless oracle of parenting wisdom
• Is love the same as care?
• Many Youngsters Aren't Ready for Kindergarten
• Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends
• Why You Should Care That Fewer Kids Are Riding Bikes
• Making a Mess of Human Development: The Terrible Impact of Our Choices for Children
• Preschool teachers ask children too many simple questions
• YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD’S DINOSAUR OBSESSION
• Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders

BEHAVIORS

• Dear Parent:  About that KID
• You’re Not A Bad Mother, You’re Just Human
• Calming Your Clingy Child
• Stop Making Everything Perfect for Your Kid
•  Kicking kids out of preschool is damaging, experts say. So why is it still happening?
• 2-year-olds aren’t terrible—they’re just learning how to be human

LOOSE PARTS

• Loose Parts: What does this mean?, Better Kid Care, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

BARE FEET RESOURCES

• Why Barefoot is Best for Children
• 5 Reasons to Let Children Go Barefoot
• You Walk Wrong

MULTI-AGE GROUPING ARTICLES

• Multi-Age Care:  An Enriching Experience, CRC Bulletin #408
• An Eye on Early Learning and Child Care in Manitoba:  Multi-age Groups Learning and Growing Child Care Centre, page 1-2
• Determining Groups:  Who Goes With Whom?  Chapter 5, Prime Times by Jim Greenman and Anne Stonehouse, Redleaf Press, 1996, pgs. 52-56
• Multiage Classes Information for Parents
• Multiage Grouping in Child Care, AQM:  Association quebecoise pour le multiage
• Multiage Learning and Teaching (Early Years Curriculum Materials) Queensland Government, pg. 1 -4
• Teaching Siblings Together (Smile on Your Brother) by Paula Carter, Young Children, September 2008

  ROUTINES

• The Most Powerful Family Ritual? The Bedtime Story
• Instead Of Telling Your Kids To Clean Up, Try This Instead
• Toilet Training in One Simple Step