Holistic Care and Education

"All the flowers of tommorow are in the seeds of today".

A must listen to podcast about the importance of risky play for children.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/play-it-forward-a-wearthy-podcast/id1489276838?i=1000542787214

‎Play It Forward, A Wearthy Podcast: Risk is Everything Feat. Ellen Sandseter on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Play It Forward, A Wearthy Podcast, Ep Risk is Everything Feat. Ellen Sandseter - 22 Nov 2021

Yet another reason to love craft 😍
'How handicraft for children supports brain development'
https://www.emersonwaldorf.org/blog/stitch-by-stitch

Blog Post: Stitch by Stitch, Row by Row — Emerson Waldorf School How Handwork Supports Brain Development in Children

This quote reflects my personal philosophy to behaviour. Going deeper than the symptom to find the root cause to address underlying needs ❤❤

It wasn't until I started nannying that i realized all Mum's are literally . Tag a Mum whos doing an amazing job!

Risk taking is an essential and important part of the learning process 🙃
Some tips for how to foster healthy risk taking and risk assessment in children by increasing awareness and problem solving skills

Personal visual schedules to support work productivity and focus. *Available as part of our personalized home school support packages.
Having a visual schedule in the home school area has so many amazing benefits including
-Assists with focus and increases concentrate on a single task at hand
-Supports work productivity and avoids workload overwhelm
-Scheduled rest breaks and brain breaks to avoid procrastination and improve focus.
-Provides a sense of routine and structure (for teacher and child)
-Assists in development of independence, autonomy and organization in learning.
-Provides a sense of achievement by breaking the day up into smaller goals
-Provides sense of positive reinforcement and accomplishment for completion of each task (each task goes into the finished basket).
*Sample schedule from schooling a year 1 child through distance education

Does this sound familiar to your road trip?

Anyone else or just us? 🐮😂

Child led learning extending number awareness into teen numbers.
Mr 5 loved cars and his goal was to extend his counting and number recognition from 10 to 11-20.
We created a car park game where his cars were numbered and had corresponding parking spaces and included this into our play to explore a variety of maths based concepts and promote mathematical thinking.

Learning intentions
-Teen number recognition
-Counting patterns.
-Problem solving e.g Having all cars parked with one in the wrong spot.
-Number before and after e.g which car comes before 9 and after 9
-Counting on from a given number e.g number 8 has arrived which car comes next
-Informal addition and subtraction. 10 cars parked and 2 drove out how many left.

Welcome to Holistic Care and Education :) A little about me
I have a diverse range of skills and experience within education and early childhood settings over the past 15 years. I am excited to combine my diverse skill set to serve the local community and families. Available Gold Coast region.
Qualifications
🌈Bachelor of education ages 3-8 (2013)
🌈Certificate 3 in children's services (2009)
🌈Certificate in children's yoga teaching (current)
Experience
🌈8 years classroom teaching including London
🌈7 years childcare centre Experience including pre prep
🌈Teaching experience in special education
🌈Outback Governess (distance ed)
🌈Private nanny
🌈OSHC program coordinator
🌈Scout leader for cubs (10 years service)
Important documents
🌈Blue card
🌈Police check
🌈Teachers registration
🌈First aid and CPR
🌈Resume
🌈References

Welcome to Holistic Care and Education my name is Sarah, the founder of this service 🙏
I am a qualified and registered teacher (Bachelor of Early Childhood education) with 15 years experience educating children birth to 12 years in school and childcare settings.
I now found my passion operating my own business supporting families directly though a variety of home based care and education/individual support services. My specialty areas are
🌈Development of strong emotional connections
🌈Supporting families who have children with special needs through support work and inhome respite care.
🌈Developing a passion for learning through individual interests
🌈Learning through play
🌈Home Schooling support
🌈Supporting parents to be the best parents they can be.

Are you a homeschooling parent and feeling uninspired, tired or stuck in a rut? Let us help you :)
and education believe that all children have natural talents and abilities to bring to this world. That ALL children are capable of learning when given the right environment and support.

With 8 years classroom teaching experience we offer custom home school support to families. Services could include:

-Assistance with curriculum and assessment planning
-Specific training and development on curriculum content for targeted teaching support (e.g. maths or literacy)
-Feedback on current teaching and learning programs
-Assistance with development of curriculum imbedded with child's interests (child centered learning)
-Taking on planning, delivery and assessment of some subjects to lighten the load and give parents a break.

Child led learning. When we use children's natural curiosities, creativity and interests to guide the learning process learning becomes natural, easy and fun!

Some examples of activities that I planned as part of my play based learning for Mr. 5 based around a natural interest in Lego.

-3 Billy Goats gruff Lego puppet show (oral story telling)
-Lego powered balloon car and flying fox for Lego people (STEM)
-Lego bracelet for Mum's birthday present (fine motor skills)

Visual schedules are a great support for ALL children. They add routine, predictability and structure to the day. I offer personalized visual schedules in my services or as one off product.

Mr. 5 was a Lego lover and was inflexible on other activities being introduced into our day. I used visual schedule to have 'learning time' session (teacher led play based activities) and 'his choice time'. He became open and receptacle and flexible to a broader range of activities.

A beautiful spent working on a community mindfulness art project for our yoga Centre 🧶🎨. How did you bring some creative flair to your weekend?
I love using art as a tool for children to combine creativity and mindfulness. It also allows time to relax and build deeper connections.

Exploring natural interest in evaporation process 💦☀️

An extension for this child's learning was to set up an experiment with a tub with a measured amount of water. Leave it in the sun all day and remeasure the amount to test their 'hypothesis' (That evaporation only occurs at night).

An example of my ability and passion for adapting learning for individual interests in my role as Outback Governess🙂
Mr year 1 loved stock yards and mustering. I encouperated his skip counting practice into playing stock auctions during a maths session.
"Big heaffa going for 2,4,6,8,10,12, $14000 dollars! SOLD". 🤣
Extension skip counting by 5's and 10's gradually increasing the sale amount and use play money to practice counting out in groups of 2.

A little about me
I have a diverse range of skills and experience within education and early childhood settings over the past 15 years. I am excited to combine my diverse skill set to serve the local community and families. Available Gold Coast region.

Qualifications
🌈Bachelor of education ages 3-8 (2013)
🌈Certificate 3 in children's services (2009)
🌈Certificate in children's yoga teaching (current)

Experience
🌈8 years classroom teaching including London
🌈7 years childcare centre Experience including pre prep
🌈Teaching experience in special education
🌈Outback Governess (distance ed)
🌈Private nanny
🌈OSHC program coordinator
🌈Scout leader for cubs (10 years service)

Important documents
🌈Blue card
🌈Police check
🌈Teachers registration
🌈First aid and CPR
🌈Resume
🌈References

Welcome to Holisitic Care and Education my name is Sarah, the founder of this service 🙏

I am a qualfied teacher (Bachelor of Early Childhood education) with 15 years experience educating children birth to 12 years in school and childcare settings.
I now found my passion operating my own business supporting families directly though a variety of home based care and education/individual support services. My speciality areas are

🌈Development of strong emotional connections
🌈Supporting families who have children with special needs
🌈Developing a passion for learning through individual interests
🌈Learning through play
🌈Knowledge of Australian curriculum and childcare documents
🌈Supporting parents to be the best parents they can be.