Wattle Montessori in Coomera, Queensland, Australia | Nursery

Wattle Montessori

Locality: Coomera, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 483 887 742

Address: 4 Nells Court 4209 Coomera, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.wattlemontessori.com.au

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19.01.2022 What do you do when your child is having a meltdown and lashing out at you or another child? In this video, Maggie Dent and Dr Vanessa Lapointe discuss a simple... approach to putting a stop to this behaviour and helping your child to re-regulate. This is a snippet from Maggie and Vanessa's wonderful masterclass from 2020 'Meltdowns to Precious Moments: A calm, common-sense approach to parenting under 5s'. To access the full replay, handout and free bonus audios, register today at https://commonsenseparenting.com.au/p/mpmmasterclass See more

12.01.2022 Today is National Sorry Day, a day where we acknowledge and recognise members of the Stolen Generations. Reconciliation is a journey for Australians as indivi...duals, families, communities, organisations and importantly as a nation. At the heart of this journey are relationships between the broader Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We all have a role to play when it comes to reconciliation, and in playing our part we collectively build relationships and communities that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, cultures, and futures. #NRW2021 #MoreThanAWord via headspaceau

03.01.2022 The Wattle team wish all the Mums out there a wonderful Mother’s Day!

03.01.2022 This weekend, some of our Wattle staff were so lucky to attend the Winter Workshop with Children of the Wilderness. Beautiful activities and resources were created with natural materials along with engaging songs and stories to bring back to Wattle! Thank you Claire and Amanda for such a beautiful morning!

02.01.2022 Early Childhood is NOT School. [This post says hold off the 'teaching' of reading, not the 'catching' of reading. Big difference.] Reading is an important skill..., no argument there. Yet teaching reading BEFORE the brain has finalised its ’specialist features’ for processing symbols and code with ease is not a good idea. When a child attempts a set task and fails, he is less likely to revisit the task with curiosity and joy in future, and much more likely to perceive himself as a poor learner. The difference in girls’ and boys’ development means that statistically, the children who fail in early literacy instruction are mostly boys. This is not what we want for our boys, it alters their perception of themselves as learners. Research shows that children who succeed in learning are the children who perceive themselves as able learners. Seven is the ideal age to begin formal learning in literacy and numeracy. I know, we in New Zealand start at 5 and many children (mostly boys) end up in the Reading Recovery programme at six. They are recovering from OUR inability to match their biology with our curriculum. It is true that some children learn to read without instruction, just as some children walk earlier than others. That is not the issue here, The issue is reserving the early childhood years for MUCH MORE IMPORTANT skills we humans require for our Wellbeing as a social animal. The easiest time to learn ‘people skills’ starts at the moment of birth up to seven years. Here’s a short list: learning to make friends initiating play for themselves and with others being able to engage and lose themselves in play managing their emotions, growing their self regulation growing skills for dealing with conflict growing their empathy and kindness growing their ability to communicate their needs and wants. Click on the link and scroll on down for my article Getting Ready for School which looks at this in more detail: https://penniebrownlee.weebly.com/articles.html