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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
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August 18, 2021
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Welcome, this week how Guardian Childcare uses cooking classes to enrich children's play based learning and development. Also, meet the author of the Magoo series for children, Briony Stewart.
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Educational cooking experiences at child care
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Quality child care centres serve up enriching learning opportunities throughout the day, and cooking experiences add fun and flavour to the educational 'menu.'
Young children's palates are piqued as they harvest ingredients, test recipes and taste self-made meals, and along the way, mini-chefs learn key skills that will stay with them for life.
At Guardian child care centres, a national Cooking and Nutrition Program plates up daily learning opportunities for babies and toddlers, while preschoolers are given hands-on opportunities to plan, prepare and cook meals, with help from their educators and in-house chefs and cooks.
Here, we look at eight learning outcomes that emerge from cooking experiences at Guardian, and other child care services promoting young children's kitchen competencies
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An interview with creative dynamo, Briony Stewart
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Briony Stewart is a mum-of-two and award-winning children's book creator. Her wondrous words and imaginative illustrations have won many young fans since her first book was published back in 2007, and there's excitement aplenty in Briony's dog-tastic Magoo series.
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has shortlisted her first Magoo book – We Love You, Magoo – for its Early Childhood Book of the Year, and Briony's second title in the series, Where Are You, Magoo? is hot off the press.
To learn about Magoo's back story and see how picture books can inspire a love of reading in early childhood, we spoke with Briony herself.
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