Discovery Staff Attends Seeds of Empathy Training

We're off to weekend Seeds of Empathy training with Michelle H, Michelle D, and Jody. It's going to be a fun weekend of learning! Can't wait to bring this amazing program to the children of Discovery!

Seeds of Empathy is designed for Early Childhood settings to foster social and emotional competence and early literacy skills and attitudes in children three to five years of age while providing professional development for their educators.

Seeds of Empathy is unique in that it powerfully engages children experientially through a community family – an infant and parent, building on the attachment relationship demonstrated between the two.


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Discovery Child Care Kids Play I Spy With Nature

The Kindergarten class at Harvie went on an “I Spy Scavenger Hunt” this week. They were given descriptive words, including “soft”, “green”, “bumpy” “long” and “edible” (which we learned means something we can eat) and they went off into the playground to find one thing each for each of the descriptive words. 

When the game was finished, we brought our collection into the classroom and created a giant chart where we categorized our nature items by description. 

We worked hard and discussed all of our items along the way and, when we were done, we noticed that some items could be described using many different words. 

For example, a purple bean can be long, soft, colourful and edible and a piece of bark can be brown, hard and bumpy! What a great way to incorporate nature, language, math and social skills into one super fun activity!




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Children are Exercising More and Eating Better

Here is good news about lifestyle changes having a positive effect on children. Healthy food and lots of exercise!

We're pleased to offer our children a chance to grow their own food in our outdoor garden and pick berries and fruit. Learning about where food comes from and what is healthy can start at almost any age.

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The Star | Children Exercising More and Eating Better

"New research shows we’re doing something right in the battle against childhood obesity.

In a study published in the October issue of the journal Pediatrics, lead author Ronald Iannotti writes that kids aged 11 to 16 are exercising more often and eating more fruits and vegetables. They’re also watching less television and consuming fewer sweets and sugary drinks.

“It may be that current public health efforts are succeeding; the trends from 2001 to 2009 are encouraging,” the study says.

When it comes to obesity risk factors such as exercise and healthy eating, she adds that Canadian trends tend to mirror American ones, with Canadian numbers slightly better.
 

Warshawski argues the push to get kids to adopt healthy lifestyles needs to start while they’re in the womb, earlier than marketers begin to build brand loyalty for junk food among kids.
 

“There are a lot of societal forces which are driving behaviour the other way,” he says. “We’ve just got to keep the pressure up.”

Too Poor For Nature Report

A recent report published in the U.K. presented findings about childhood poverty. David Bond, HuffPost, commented..

"The revelation from the report, though, is that children growing up in poverty are nine times less likely to have access to green space. They have far fewer places to play and tend to live in environments with poor air quality. These three million children are not just growing up in material poverty, but in environmental poverty. They can not afford nature."

The following film examines child poverty.

'Greater Expectations' looks at how poverty and disadvantage still wreak havoc on children's lives, causing them to lag far behind their more affluent peers in almost all areas of their lives, from health to education, early development to housing.

All of us at Discovery Child Care, believe that all children need to spend time in green space and learn about nature. Our programs are based on integrated learning, taking the classroom to outdoors.




Discovery Child Care offers interesting and educational before and after school programs. Call us for a tour. We'd love to meet with you and your child! 705-733-2052