Early Childhood Education and Care News
May 11, 2021
Kia ora, this week strategies for encouraging literacy among young children as suggested by Chelsea Bracefield and Fiona Woodgate and 12 sustainability hacks to boost your bottom line while also protecting our environment.
Read, write, speak and listen: encouraging literacy in young children
Reading, writing, speaking and listening - these are the actions that help to build literacy in infants, toddlers and young children in early learning environments, enabling them to make meanings for themselves, and communicate effectively with others.

In their collaborative article 'Early Literacy and the Teacher's Role', published in childhood education journal He Kupu, Chelsea Bracefield and Fiona Woodgate focus on how teachers in early learning centres can encourage written, verbal, visual and auditory literacy among the children in their care, with simple play-based activities engaged in every day.
12 Sustainability strategies for your service
Sustainability. It's a hot-button topic of course, but living, working and playing more sustainably are easier than you may think and can help to save your centre money.

Big changes can come about by lots of people making little changes to their daily lives and practices and teaching children about sustainable practices along the way is an even better bonus.

Here are 12 everyday ideas for boosting the sustainability performance of your service.
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