Book: Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming EC Environments

Book title:
Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments

Author: Deb Curtis, and Margie Carter

Publication Date: 2003

Publisher: Readleaf Press, MN United States

So recently in the last few months, I've been working with a new childcare employer, I shall call Employer O., or EO for short. They aren't an recruitment agency, and shall be deemed as such.

After having been to a number of their campuses, I've had a feel of how their different schools prepare their environment. 

I found this book a couple of months back, in March, and only remembered now that I had wrote a short post on it. 

When I saw this book, Designs for Living and Learning, at the TAFE library, I thought it was an apt moment to borrow it. 

Notes taken from this text: 

Elements to consider when planning EC spaces:

- Connections and a sense of belonging

- Flexible space and open ended materials 

- Wonder, curiosity, and intellectual engagement 

- Symbolic representations, literacy, and the visual arts.

Pg21: The lives of today's children are filled with plastic, concrete, metal, electronic media, and other materials 

Co-Sleeping With Baby

I had an interesting conversation with two preschoolers about Baby Hannah yesterday. 

In my current household, there have been  some domestic discord. As such, Baby Hannah's father had been relegated to the sleeping quarters in the hall.

Are your shoes Pretty or Macho?

So today I had an interesting episode with some children at a centre on Coogee.

We were outside at the sandpit with with a couple of toddlers (2-3 year olds).

Girl A: Are my princess shoes pretty?

First shift with a new employer!

So today is my first ever shift with a new Childcare company. For the sake of brevity and future blog posts, I shall refer to them as E.O, short for 'Employer O' in future posts.

Just earlier this week, I went for an interview in this not for profit company , E.O, that manages their own Childcare centres.