The Early Child & Care Education practitioners can support the Regulation V of the Child Care Act 1991, Regulations 2016 by relating to the principles, themes and standards under Aistear and Siolta. Aistear focuses on the curriculum framework for all children from birth to six years of age. It offers ideas, information and suggestions on how to help a child learn and develop through their early years. Aistear supplies these ideas and suggestions under four themes and twelve principles. Siolta concentrates on all particular aspects of quality inside the Early Childhood & Care Education settings from birth to six years of age. There are sixteen standards in Siolta which are focused on the …show more content…
Communicating: ‘The theme of Communicating is about children sharing their experiences, thoughts, ideas, and feelings with others with growing confidence and competence in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes’. (NCCA 2009, p.34). Communication involves offering, collecting and creating logic of information. Children communicate by non-verbal ways, for example, listening and thinking. Communication is very important for child as they learn how to talk to their families and how to socialize with their peers. They do this by facial expressions, sounds, body movements and so on. These are two of the four points and the learning targets for …show more content…
The bond with the adult, the child will reveal knowledge of their own strong points, talents and learning methods and will show their talents and understandings. For example, in the activity, the child could show the adult of how they made their colours.
2. Exploring and Thinking: ‘The theme of Exploring and Thinking is about children making sense of the things, places and people in their world by interacting with others, playing, investigating, questioning, and forming, testing and refining ideas.’ (NCCA 2009, p.43). Children are very smart, as they test out how to do things from observing in their environment. Their imagination if one of their strong skills. They filter their ideas through discovering all around them and through contact with children and adults. These are the two of the four aims for Exploring and Thinking:
• ‘Children will explore ways to represent ideas, feelings, thoughts, objects, and actions through symbols.’ (NCCA 2009, p.44). With the relationship with the adult, the child could reveal their feelings and thoughts by drawing them out or painting. In this activity, the child could paint a picture of their feelings and thought about anything, for instance, what they think of the