Category: Early Times Weekly

Early Times Weekly

The Box Factor

  “With nothing more than a little imagination, boxes can be transformed into forts or houses, spaceships or submarines, castles or caves. Inside a big cardboard box, a child is transported to a world of his or her own, one where anything is possible.” – National Toy Hall of Fame   With Christmas behind us

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Advertise a Job in your Service on our Jobs Board

We are launching the Early Childhood Ireland Jobs Board. This is a new service, offering our members the facility to advertise jobs on our Online Jobs Board free of charge. Non-members can also advertise positions on our Jobs Board but they will be required to pay a fee of €30 to do so. Our website

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Literacy Corner…January 2014

An activity to support the development of language, literacy and numeracy skills Using any of your favourite stories, you can substitute the children’s names for characters in the book.  Help the children to draw the story, using their photos where possible to enable them see their position in the story.       What is

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National Pyjama Day 2014

Thank you very much to those of you who registered for National Pyjama Day 2014 – we were overwhelmed by the response of early childhood providers this year. Registrations increased by 100%,so thank you for your generosity and we hope you had a wonderful National Pyjama Day! So far you have helped to raise €221,000!

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Christmas Tongue Twisters

  Seven Santas sang silly songs.   Tiny Timmy trims the tall tree with tinsel.   Santa’s sleigh slides on slick snow.   Bobby brings bright bells.   How many deer would a reindeer reign if a reindeer could reign deer?   Running reindeer romp ’round red wreaths.   Kris Kringle chose to climb the

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Cleaner Greener Cleaning

The childcare regulations demand good hygiene practices as do the environmental health officers, parents and the children in our service. So we have provided some simple recipes and tips you can use in your childcare service to make you greener and cleaner than ever before, while also saving you money!   Key Ingredients There are

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