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Advice for parents

One of the most important things you can do as parents/carers, is to play with your children, talk with them about the everyday routines in your family and share time together.

It doesn't matter if you are at home with a baby, toddler or pre-schooler, the time you spend together is one of the strongest contributors to children's overall development.

Here you can access a range of ideas to enjoy with your children in the home and with materials you may have on hand or can access via the internet. These ideas are meant to be fun. What is important is that you are there playing alongside your child.

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Resources

Birth to 3 years

ABC Kids
ABC Kids is home to loved and trusted preschool programs. Explore the website for games, apps, songs, craft and much more.

Early childhood focused resources COVID-19 resources
Early childhood focused resources produced by the World Health Organisation. From tips for talking with very young children about the virus to play and learning-at-home resources.

First 5 Forever
Explore this online resource developed by the State Library to encourage early literacy in the first 5 years of your child’s life.

Victorian Government—For parents: Learning and Play
This Victorian Department Education and Training website has information for parents of babies, toddlers and preschool aged children to help their child learn and build skills through play.

Melbourne Zoo—Animal House
No need for a plane, packed lunch and tired legs—Melbourne Zoo is live-streaming so your child can still enjoy an adventure to the zoo, in your own home.

Nature Play—Creating a Child-Friendly Backyard
Nature Play encourages outdoor play. Connecting with nature not only supports your family’s mental health and wellbeing, it provides learning opportunities. If you need to stay in the yard, try these ideas.

Zero to Three—Parenting
A website from the US, designed to support parents in developing their own individual ways to promote their children’s wellbeing and growth.

Raising Children—Learning in the baby to preschool years
Developed by professionals and practitioners, the Raising Children website is Australia’s most reliable resource for Australian parents of children at every age and stage.

South Australian Government—Our Learning SA
Routine and certainty is important for children. Our Learning SA provides information to support families with these helpful tips on communication, wellbeing and the home learning environment.

Tasmanian Government—Wellbeing
Babies and children learn best when they feel loved and secure. Talking, playing and reading with your child from birth are the best things you can do for their learning. Check out these great ideas.

ABC News—Socially distant bear hunts
There are bears everywhere! Socially distanced bear hunts popping up all around the world, to distract children from coronavirus and get them out in the fresh air.

Kindergarten: Literacy—Farm animals

These learning possibilities are organised around a quality children’s story. Each story uses animals as the central characters and present opportunities to explore a range of social and emotional situations that may be familiar to children. Each story opens a window to a range of playful and creative learning opportunities. These learning opportunities can lead children to explore their own thinking and ideas in different ways.

I went walking

The little red hen

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?

The very busy spider

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

Alexander and the wind-up mouse

Corduroy

It's mine!

Click, clack, moo: Cows that type

Giraffes can't dance

Picasso the green tree frog

Too loud Lily

The pear in the pear tree

Bear and Chook

Do you want to be my friend?

The rainbow fish

Farmer Duck

Amy and Louis

It's okay to be different

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Chickens aren't the only ones

Rosie's walk

Queenie, one of the family

Six little chicks

Time for bed

Kindergarten: Numeracy—Counting

Counting is an important early numeracy skill. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore and apply their knowledge of counting. A children’s story is also provided with a focus on counting.

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Kindergarten: Numeracy—Location and direction

Location and direction help children to understand the relationships between people, objects and the space around them. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore physical location and direction. A children’s story is also provided that includes specific language or ideas about direction and/or location.

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Kindergarten: Numeracy—Data

Data is the information children collect by observing, asking questions or testing out ideas. When children describe what they see in groups of objects they are making sense of the information and can, with support explore how they can represent the information. These learning possibilities present a number of playful experiences that invite children to explore the grouping of objects by characteristic, number or preference and the relationships that can be described as a result of the information gathered. A children's story is also provided that includes specific language or ideas that support children's growing understandings of data.

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Last updated 17 February 2023