Exhibiting tomorrow at the “Isabella & Marcus Fund Charity Market Day”

Exhibiting tomorrow at the “Isabella & Marcus Fund Charity Market Day”

 

  

A great event for a very important cause!

Isabella & Marcus Fund Charity Market Day will be a great day for families with over 60+ stalls, jumping castle & kids fun, cafe, and lots of delicious food.

Gold coin donation on entry - raising awareness and funds for research into brain-stem tumours in children. Come along for a great day!

Personally I will exhibiting there, so I might see some of you there, Please feel free to share with your friends to support this great cause.

Contact: Daniela Ruberto
Phone: 0412 339 673
Email: info@isabellaandmarcusfund.org.au
Website: www.isabellaandmarcusfund.org.au
Facebook: www.facebook.com/IsabellaAndMarcusFund

 

Event Happening at  (Pitman Classic Cars)

47 Governor Road
Mordialloc
Victoria

Saturday 28 Apr 2012 - 09:00 – 15:00

See you there…..!

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How Manipulative & co-ordination skills are helped to develop through Lacing & threading activities in young children

How Manipulative & co-ordination skills are helped to develop through Lacing & Threading activities in young children

 

Why is developing Manipulative & co-ordination skills so important in the development of young kids?

Lets start first of all to understand what Fine Motor skills are! Okay it is the ability to use the mussels that control the movement of fingers, thumb and hand, in co-ordination with the eyes.

By preschool age, a child normally will be able to these simple tasks by themselves:

• button up a shirt
• using a pencil or a crayon
• paste objects
• pick blocks and stack them
• use of a scissors
• cut pieces of paper into small pieces
• tie a shoe lace
• pour water from a jug to a cup
• the use of cutlery

More skills are continuously developed into later years. Now how can we develop these skills? There is a lot of activities one can do and encourage the child to do. With a little bit of planning of different activities you can help them along.

Some activities that I would recommend is firstly simple every day things that we do around the house, such as:

• engaging in household chores
• gardening
• watering plants
• cooking

These give a great workout to hand muscles and eye co-ordination.

You should also encourage activities that they like doing as obviously it will be more enjoyable.

Encouraging computer games  and making shapes with clay also improves these skills immensely. But hey wait a minute, what about the simple activity of Lacing & Threading?

• You can start with a very basic lacing activity such as these apple & cheese lacing activity, which are very simple, all they have to do in the case of the cheese, place the mouse through the whole and thread, same with the apple.

• or maybe these different shapes, where it also encourages the learning of shapes, colours and enriching their vocabulary at the same time

 

I will take you to the next level of lacing activities in another post….

Till then what are some of the activities that you do with your children, that you think are developing their Fine Motor & co-ordination skills? 

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What is procrastination?

What is procrastination?

 

For those who are wondering which I think you would be in the minority it means “to put off or delay till another day or time”

Are you nodding your head, that you may be a culprit of this!

I think we all are culprits from time to time. I am sure we all have things or chores that we do not like to do, but yes we have to do them!

I can name a list of things that I get caught procrastinating on. But I think that one of my worst thing that I hate doing is BOOKWORK. The main reason maybe is that it is not something that is creative, so for me it can get very boring doing it. I do not know how, in my previous life, I worked for a company doing their books for over a year, I actually up to this day, I do not know what on earth made me do it. I remember the day came along when I decided point blank to resign and  back to what I like best, which in those days was, Reservations in the Hotel Industry.

I think we all have something that we try to get out from, but then we ended up suffering as we have to catch up with all the work that we were suppose to have done before.

Every year, I say to myself, I have to keep my books up to date! I have to allocate myself, maybe half a day a week or 2 days per month, and keep on track. I end up doing it for a while, but then my busy season hits in and everything gets piled in a box, and the work starts building up. So then come this time of year, when I have to be organized and hand in my books to my lovely Accountant, I start  procrastinating…………and it takes longer and longer. You know how easy it is to be tempted to go on line and browse, and time flies, and my bookwork is still waiting for me piled in a box LOL!

Ah well I am happy to say I have just finished and I am actually up-to-date. So I decided to write a Blog Post, so perhaps it will entice me to stay on track, and when I fall back, I come to this post and maybe I will be reminded of how much I will end up procrastinating if I do not keep my bookwork up-to-date. 

I feel a free woman and I can move forward again ahhhhhh. Why did I procrastinate in the first place?

Thank you for listening to my confession, I am wondering if you have any dislikes or weakness that you procrastinate on?

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8 New Google+ Changes and How They Impact Your Business | Social Media Examiner

8 New Google+ Changes and How They Impact Your Business | Social Media Examiner

This is a great article by Mike Delgado, where it explains clearly how Google+ has changed its appearance and you can make the alterations...I need to do a few changes on mine as well.

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Winner of the Mother’s Day $30.00 Gift Voucher is ….

Winner of the Mother’s Day $30.00 Gift Voucher is ….

I am pleased to say that the winner of the Mother’s Day $30.00 Gift Voucher is Jessie Hay.

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3 Little Pigs and Jungle Hand Puppets are back in stock……

3 Little Pigs and Jungle Hand Puppets are back in stock……

These popular Hand puppets are back in stock.
3 Little Pigs, one of the most favorite story rhymes of all times and the Jungle Animal hand puppet, which many creative stories can be told.