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Ramps and Rolling

Ramps and Rolling

Description:

Babies are fascinated by movement and often enjoy watching objects roll, slide, bounce, fall, and stop suddenly. To encourage your baby to explore how things move, set up a variety of ramps using cardboard boxes, pieces of wood or an alternative material, and encourage them to place different objects at the top of each ramp to see what happens when they let go. How do the objects move?

Promote learning by:

Support your baby’s understanding by describing their actions as they place objects at the top of each ramp and let it go. Describe how the object moved down the ramp. (E.g., “You’ve placed a truck at the top of the ramp. I wonder what will happen when you let go? It is rolling down the ramp”).

Support your infants understanding of speed by describing how fast/slow the object is moving down the ramp (E.g., “The ball rolled down the ramp really fast/The block is sliding slowly down the ramp”.)

Additional learning:

To extend on this experience, you may also wish to add different surface coverings to the ramps to provide further sensory engagement such as artificial turf, sandpaper, fabric, carpet offcuts, gravel, or bubble wrap. This will allow opportunities to discuss and compare how the objects move on different surfaces.

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Hi Georgina,

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the recruitment of Centre Directors and Educators to join the expanding Nido family.

With so many open roles in the sector at the moment, I think we should be talking about the differences that really sets Nido apart. From my own experience, they are not always obvious from the outside, but when you get to meet the Nido family you really feel it.

Leaving my previous employer, who I was with for over 10 years, was not an easy decision. I had interviews with a few different companies, before finding my home at Nido.

I remember walking out of that initial interview, literally with tears in my eyes, I knew I had finally found what I had been looking for.

As you mentioned, honesty and integrity are critical and a given, our Services, resources and environments speak for themselves, and candidates merely need to look at our website to understand how engaging and wonderful they are.

We really need to focus more on what a Centre Director and an Educator will experience at Nido;

Authenticity; At Nido they will get honesty with heart
Trust and understanding; At Nido you are treated from day one, as competent and capable
We have the opportunity to inspire Educators and children to reach their full potential and change their worlds for the better, this still delights me everyday
At Nido you can make your mark in the world and are given the respect and autonomy to do what you love and truly make a difference
Collaboration – we are one team, far and wide we inspire and challenge each other
Nido is a family, for me, I have the overwhelming sense of belonging at Nido, my people and my home, this is what drew me to Nido in the first place

I am continually driven by our purpose;

To provide our Educators with the training, environment, motivation, and empowerment to deliver exceeding quality education to children, partnering with families, and giving children a voice and the opportunity to lead wonderful fulfilling lives.

I love that we seek to make quality early education available to everyone, regardless of their economic position. That we focus more on suburban children and advocate for their rights, Nido is truly a movement and not one to join without knowing you will need to put your heart on the line every single day.

Mary Oliver asked “What will you do with your one wild and precious life”, I cannot think of anything more fulfilling than what I get to do every day at Nido.

Kind regards,
Danika x