• Explain why this is a regulation

• Using your own words, explain “why” and “what” specifically about the regulation.  

• Finally, be creative and think of three activities that would be suitable to enforce the regulation.  

• Photos are encouraged! 

Why? To ensure that children have daily outdoor play in a safe environment.

Why is it important to have daily outdoor play?

It is important to have daily outdoor play is because we can do some good little outdoor activities. We will need to have little fresh air to refocus on what we have planned for the day. Get some stem out of our system. It will help us be calm even if it’s 10 minutes outside. During winter if it isn’t too cold to play outside, we can go outside for at least 10-15 minutes. We can do some activities like go for walks, seeing different areas. Telling children what areas we can’t play because of heavy traffic. Outside the daycare we can play tag and red-over. Makes some snowman’s or snow angels.

What it means.

Everyone is allowed to play outdoors unless we have some papers from health centre that the child is isn’t allowed to go outside due to health reasons.

Creatives or activities.

As a group we can go for walks, show children where it is dangerously because of heavy traffic. Building snowman or snowangels. Make it fun for children like playing tag or teach them how to make little igloo and snow fort.

Make sure children have everything. Everything meaning parka,wind pants, mitts, hat and scarf.

-holly

Why is it important? To ensure that infants get enough rest.

Having a nap helps with their brain development.

Resting for infants is important because is it part of their growth, durning sleep a baby’s body and brain activity works to develop.

Sleeping also helps babies build their immune system preventing sickness.

Three activities to help babies get ready for rest:

1. Play with them, teach them to throw and catch a ball.

2. Sing songs and teach them basic lessons, read, abc’s,colour.

3. Get them to finish their morning and afternoon snacks.

   -Hillary

• brain development: Supports memory consolidation, attention, & problem solving skills.

• Emotional regulations: Helps children manage frustration, reduces tantrums, & improves behaviour.

• Physical health: Essential for energy levels, reducing fussiness & improving motor skills.

  Rest for preschoolers: preschoolers need an average 10-13 hours of daily sleep. Including nap times, crucial for brain development, moods and focus with consistent routines, calming environments (dim lights, soft music) & calming & quiet alternatives.

  (Books, puzzzles) for no sleepers essential for effective rest time. Rest time helps kids recharge, manage emotions, and improve learning with educators using calming strategies, & offering quiet activities like reading or drawing for those who don’t nap. Making it vital for overall well being & afternoon engagement.

• Janaya Niego

Services to enhance the quality of programs and services in child day care facility.

The daily program must include regular use of the community facilities and services as much as needed.

It is a regulation so the kids can learn explore and have fun. It is important for kids to go out and learn it also helps the kids to burn off energy

Karen

-when they will communicate with parents about well being and program participations..

The child had a lot of fun participating this game, (why?) he was being well behaved and enjoyed (what?) socializing with his friends playing, he learned a lot while thinking about number’s ..

He was playing a game that has math included

-We were doing blocks with numbers and he named them perfectly, he did the math…

-we we’re counting number’s and he counted up to 20..

-we were playing baseball and he counted how many of his friends were gonna be in his team…

Examples of ways to show a daily program:

• our facility in B.L has a white board that is in the entrance for reminders such as field trip, special events etc.

• Print and give out a weekly newsletter for staff and parents to visualize what they’re going to be doing

• Print out a simple newsletter for children to visualize

• Post the daily program on Lillio

-Robin Iqqaat

This is a day care regulation because it promotes physical wellness, this helps with their physical growth, their heart, bones and mind. It is also important to make it a routine for a healthy lifestyle.

What it means: to have at least 30 minutes of physical fitness each day. Outdoor playing is known to help with children’s healthy development, it is importantly for their social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. It is also associated with higher vitamin D levels, improved mental well-being, better attention and behaviours, better self-regulations and it makes it easier for children to memorize things.

Healthy and physical activities:

•Playing at the playground is a good one to strengthen muscles and respiratory system as they are climbing and running.

•Running games like tag, freeze. Increases their heart rate and blood flow, they learn to coordinate their bodies.

•Snow play, activities include sliding, shovelling, making snow angels. They can develop fine and motor skills when they participate in movement.

3 Activities to enforce this regulation are:

1. Set up play doh, play foam and blocks or puzzles at different tables in the morning before the kids get dropped off, letting kids have free time for an hour at the beginning of the day.

2. Another activity is going for a walk after snack time in the morning, (before lunch) to get the kids moving, being active.

3. The last activity is doing craft assigned by one of the facilitators in the afternoon, after they have their snack. Once all the children are done their craft, they can all dress up to go play outside before they get picked up at the end of the day.

-Lisa Parker:)

Why? To ensure that children have daily outdoor play in a safe environment.

It’s important to have daily outdoor play because children need fresh air to reset their mind. To have space to be free, run around with their friends and helps them with both fine and gross motor skills. Examples of that is with fine motor skills is looking for insects, getting flowers and other plants. For gross motor skills is walking, running and jumping all over.

During summer we can go for walks around the town not far from the daycare, have circle time outside and snack time if it’s not too hot for the kids. Sometimes we are out most of the day.

During fall we go out berry picking at the blueberry hill or on the prince river road. We go to the elders cabin to get away from the daycare for a bit.

During winter is quite difficult due to weather but we go outside for at least 10-15 minutes, if there’s no wind we stay outside a little longer.

~Shania

What:

3 activities

1. Look around for plants/

2. Snow castle making

3. Collect rocks around the area

Recommendation

~ Daily outdoor play

~ To ensure that children get some fresh air also explore different areas or landscape such as finding different kind of plants the Arctic offers. Why is it Important ~ the developmental domain for the children is healthy to explore the outside world we live in, the scenery they don’t see daily is good for the growing mind. We can do many different fun outdoor play such as go sliding on the hill as walking up the hill is good exercise. If the snow condition is great we can build a snowman. Going for a walk is another way to explore the scenery, looking at the birds and imitate the sound they make or look for animal tracks on the side of the road.

Why?

To include all children in all aspects of the daily program including learning and play activities.

This means children needs to be included in all activities regardless of their disabilities. All children should be cared and loved for their own personality, we should be welcoming all children with warmth regardless of their looks and how they are.

3 activities that is suitable to enforce the regulation

#1 free for all colouring, painting and play time

#2 Cognitive thinking like puzzles, building with blocks

#3 cutting shapes with the help of teachers.

Hattie Aningaat

This is a regulation because infants need rest just as much as any of us do.

Why? Infants need a good well rest nap so they can restore energy, be more happy and more attentive to their surroundings. It’s good for their health as well. Not napping too much thought the day too as it can effect their life style.

3 activities that would suit this regulation

1 - Sing some lullaby songs

2 - Play ‘Inuja’ the Inuit mini dolls. They come with inungua (pretend Inuit) blankets and pillows, We can as a group get everything we need to get to rest and gather them as we would on a nap time routine.

3 - Read books about why it is important to get some sleep

Samantha

Our supervisor is true one who talk with the parents when concerning about the child/children at the daycare, if our supervisor isn’t working the one who is covering for the supervisor is the one who is responsible to talk with the parents.

Snow play- making snow man and or snow ball and or a snow angel, making snow cake in different sizes, go for walk on the shore to look for different kinds of rocks and make a little inukshuk or nakataq (Inuit traditional game) with the rocks they picked up, even a field trip to parks Canada, argmarlik centre, weaving shop. Kids always enjoy having fresh air even if its only 15 minutes is very enough for the children to enjoy outdoors

Linda Leah

What it means: for me i could say we are spoiled these days, we just have to wait for us to get watered or sewage delivered or even garbage trucks are very useful. Back then they didn’t have any of those so we should be thankful to have facilities and services in the communities.

How: we just have to call the hamlet to get water or sewage and garbage pick up to get service. They are always on the road from 8:00 to 5:00 sometimes they worked during evenings too, they are always on the road during weekends.

-Annie