New Dramatic Play / Role Play Printables Available

Are you ready to transport your students or children to a world of boundless imagination and creativity? We're thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new range of dramatic play printables, available exclusively on our Etsy and Teachers Pay Teachers pages. These captivating resources are designed to inspire and engage young minds, providing endless opportunities for imaginative play and role-playing adventures. Let's delve into the exciting features and benefits of our latest collection.

Our new dramatic play printable range covers various themes and settings, catering to different interests and learning objectives. Whether you're seeking resources for a classroom, daycare, kindergarten, homeschooling environment, or even for entertaining children at home, you'll find something to suit every need. From a bustling pizza restaurant to a colourful ice cream shop, an airport to a veterinary clinic, our printables are designed to transform any space into a captivating world of make-believe.

We understand the importance of creating an immersive and realistic play experience. That's why our printables feature vibrant, high-quality visuals that bring each theme to life. From eye-catching signs and labels to detailed props and accessories, our resources are meticulously designed to capture children's attention and enhance their engagement. These visuals make the play experience more enjoyable and promote language development and vocabulary expansion.

Our dramatic play printables are designed with convenience in mind. They are easy to print, assemble, and set up, ensuring a hassle-free experience for busy educators, parents, and caregivers. Whether you need them in standard letter size or prefer larger prints like A3, you have the freedom to adjust the size accordingly. Additionally, our printables are designed to be durable and reusable. You can laminate them to increase longevity and use them over and over again, providing endless hours of playtime fun. 

We encourage you to add your creative touch to make the play experience more immersive. Our printables provide a solid foundation, but you can also incorporate additional elements and materials to further enrich the play environment. Add real utensils to the restaurant theme, bring in costumes for character role-play, use craft supplies for balls of ice cream or sprinkles, or include authentic tools for a more realistic experience. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination.

LANTITE Preparation and Revision Study Cards

Over the last year and a half I have been working towards my completing my Bachelor in Early Childhood Education at University. A new aspect of this is the dreaded LANTITE (Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students). This test has been designed to assess initial teacher education students' person literacy and numeracy skills. Ultimately that would like new teachers to prove that they are in the top 30% of the Australian population in both literacy and numeracy before they allow them to complete their final placement and become a registered teacher. Students have three chances to sit and pass the test, with some education providers allowing an additional two sittings to those who can prove that they are working and studying in order to attempt again.

There is much debate about this test and whether or not it is providing enough differentiation for students who may not be able to pass. Being in my second or four years of study, I made the decision to take my first attempt, so that I have time in case I don't pass.

During my studying process I discovered Facebook pages dedicated to supporting students pass the test, some which pushed different tutoring programs and others which were solely students supporting students with shared knowledge and information.

I spent many hours studying and preparing for my test, and I still will not find out how I went for another few weeks. However, during my studying I developed a handy guide to help me to learn, practice, revise and familiarise myself with various different aspects of both numeracy and literacy in order to prepare for the test.

This has led me to create a resource that I believe is incredibly valuable to others who are preparing to sit the LANTITE, and I would love to continue to add and grow this resource to further help others.

The resource has been designed as cue cards, which can be printed either 2 or 4 to a page, for use to concisely and quickly explain different concepts.

In the future I would love to make larger or in-depth guides, that focus on different aspects, and I would love to hear back from anyone who has any ideas or comments as to what they would like to see, or need these to look like.

I would love to see these resources grow and adapt using customer feedback, suggestions and advice, so that they are full and current, to help everyone.

Find my resources available over on my Teachers Pay Teachers page by following the links below.

Literacy - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LANTITE-Literacy-Revision-Study-Cards-7415141

Numeracy - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LANTITE-Numeracy-Revision-Study-Cards-7415158

And good luck to anyone out there studying. Feel free to comment any questions you may have :)

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New Products

Check out our Etsy store for all new products with more coming soon.

We have been creating new templates using 6 different animal themes. These can be incorporated into your centre in many different ways. You may choose to divide rooms into different animal themes, or perhaps change up your own room each month, focusing on discovering and learning about each different animal theme.

Be sure to like our Etsy shop so that you can get notified when we add new listings that match our animal themes including lesson plans, activities sheets, display posters, etc...

Arctic Theme

 

Farm Yard Theme

Ocean/Under the Sea Theme

Pets Theme

 

Safari/Zoo Animals Theme

Woodland Creatures Theme

Dramatic Play/Role Play Packs

Check out our range of role play printable packs to turn your home corner into something amazing!

Tackling EYLF Quality Improvement Plans

Ok, so when I set out to create our Quality Improvement Plans for my room I was baffled by what I had to do. I had no idea where to start or how to even approach it. 

So I got onto trusty Google and search for 'quality improvement plans'. I found lots of information about how to write them, which was great, but what I was really looking for was a way to make sure that we were doing everything that we possible could be to ensure that we are a high quality centre.

I happened across this photo

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It was exactly what I had been looking for. They had placed three pieces of card on the wall. One that was for strengths, one that was for weaknesses and another that was for oks. Then they went through every one of the elements and place them where they believed the went for their centre.

What a brilliant idea. I love how easy it is to read and understand. It is great for being able to tell what needs work and what you are doing well. 

This is something that we are doing in our next staff meeting, to ensure that there isn't anything that we have overlooked.

If you are wanting to do something similar check out my Etsy Shop  MyAdventuresInCC for a printable to get you started!

Programming with the EYLF

Here is my October programme for the 2-3 room. At the moment I am using the Under The Sea Programme Theme Display. I think it looks great and I’ve had lots of parents comments so far, which is great.

  

I use a 12 symbol system, which is also working really well. I had each of my symbols made into a stamp from a person on Ebay, which makes it so easy to link my programming with the EYLF.

What it involves is a template to correspond to each symbol. If you have parent input you fill in a ‘Family Input’ form. If you do an observation of a child you fill out a ‘Child Observation’ form. Then those experiences go onto the programme with the symbol next to it.

When someone asks why a certain experience is there you can check the symbol and immediately explain why it is there and show the documentation for it.

I’ll give you an example…

A parent has come in and was talking to you about how their child is really interested in traffic lights. She points to them whenever they are in the car.

Later, when you have some quiet time you can fill in the ‘Family Input’ form briefly detailing the conversation you had with the parent. Then you offer some future experiences that could extend on this child’s interest. You can make these up, ask the parent if they have any suggestions, or even ask the child.

For this example you have decided to paint templates of traffic lights using red, yellow and green paint. You write this up on your programme under the corresponding Learning Outcome and next to a Family Input symbol.

When you have done this experience you can evaluate it using the ‘Evaluation’ form. This also has a place for any future experiences.

In my example the experience went really well, lots of the children showed interest in the traffic lights, promoting discussions around the painting table about what you do at a traffic light. You could have your future experience as introducing road signs to the bike track.

Now you can write that up on your programme next to an Outdoor Experience symbol.

See how your programme may never stop. One thing can lead to another and another. Using the symbols and the template forms ensures that you have adequate documentation on how you are linking your programme to the children, families, staff, and EYLF.

Check out my Etsy Store - MyAdventuresInCC for all the documention templates, symbols, and displays that I use.