Carly Lloyd

Scissors and Children

January 2, 2012

How young is too young for a child to be using a pair of scissors? I happily give two years olds a pair. I would have given several of the eighteen month olds scissors too if we had them in our room all the time and wouldn’t been seen as a novelty. Some of those [...]

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Lego In An Early Childhood Setting ~ Space City Lego

October 10, 2011

Over the past few weeks the five year olds in the three to five room have been exploring the Space City Lego*. As soon as I walked into the centre carrying the four boxes I had children questioning me, “Is that for us?” I smiled and explained that it was. They have since been putting [...]

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Space City Lego Giveaway

May 11, 2011

I love Lego and so when I was contacted about hosting a giveaway I jumped at the chance. So this afternoon, because I am currently off work due to hurting my tailbone, I spent making the entire Lego Space City! After three hours it was all finished, I think I had a few breaks in [...]

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Modeling Behaviours

April 5, 2011

Today during afternoon tea, one of the children was not drinking. Confused, because most days he will simply push the sipper cup away, without even taking a sip, the other carer and I wondered if he wasn’t used to drinking from that type of sipper sup. Which then lead to me, grabbing my own sipper [...]

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Creating an Observation Systems and Records

April 4, 2011

Within any setting, creating an observation system and record is always a great idea. If you are working within a prior to school setting, the regulations dictate how many observations need to be compiled each month, according to how many days they attend. Focusing specifically within prior to school settings these are the steps that [...]

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