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Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween! The children had a fun-filled day enjoying different halloween themed activities including making mummies during arts and craft, ghost bananas to enjoy for snack time, spider baskets during problem solving, crawling through a haunted tunnel and scary slime during sensory play!

The Importance of Math Skills For Pre-schoolers

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When you send your child to a preschool, you are preparing them for their elementary education. Maths skills learned in preschool lay the foundation of understanding concepts and applications easily in elementary school and beyond. For this reason, early childhood educators should focus on activities and lessons to develop these basic skills. Basic Math Skills […]

Sydney Childcare Centre Science Experiments

Sydney Childcare Centre Science Experiments

As part of our science program, the children love participating in science experiments. Science is all about exploration and discovery so we introduce multiple fun experiments and activities every day to expand your child’s natural curiosity such as milk fireworks, volcano explosions, construction foam and taste testing! If you want to know more about our […]

Emotional Wellbeing Childcare Activity

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At Clovel, we understand that self-regulation is essential to overall health. An activity that deepens their emotional intelligence is ‘I Spy Bottle’. A child with self-regulatory skills is able to focus their attention, control their emotions and manage their thinking, behaviour and feelings. This activity helps with solitary play, assists self regulation and strengthens their […]

Preschool Sensory Garden

Preschool Sensory Garden

From birth to early childhood, children use their five senses to explore and try to make sense of the world around them. It’s an important part of early childhood development, and providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through ‘sensory play’ is crucial to brain development. An activity […]

Maths Preschool Activity

Maths Preschool Activity

At Clovel we embed our Mathematics program in a variety of activities. Mathematics is the building block for everything in our daily lives which helps your child understand measurement, shapes, numbers, simple math equations and more. One of these activities is as simple as using one material to explore Maths. This benefits the children’s knowledge […]

The Role That Science Has To Play In Early Childhood Education

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There is a growing recognition and understanding of the power of early thinking and learning in children. Most educators and behavioural scientists also firmly believe that science may be a notable learning domain in preschoolers. Being exposed to and learning about various science concepts becomes the basis for future scientific understanding and helps to build […]

Understanding What Child Development And The Related Milestones Are

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Child development is the formative period during which a child’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and social abilities develop. This period continues until early adulthood. The child passes through various developmental milestones in sequential periods and progresses from dependence on parents/guardians to increased independence. Children develop various skills in five primary areas of development: 5 Primary Areas […]

I Love Reading Literacy Preschool Activity

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As part of our Literacy program, Clovel children engage in the I Love Reading program. The children learn a different letter each week and then combine the letters learnt to read and write basic words. If you want to know more about our literacy program at Clovel Childcare and Early Learning Centres, don’t hesitate to […]

National Educator’s Day!

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 Happy National Educators Day to all of our wonderful Clovel Childcare Educators. In the castle of Clovel our King and Queen Educators shape the minds of your little princes and princesses to run a castle of their own. Early Childhood Educators Day recognises and celebrates the hard work of Australia’s early childhood educators for […]