Canada has been named the #2 best country in the world for the second straight year. Also, named as the #1 country in the world in 2017 for Quality of Life.
Who conducted the study?
The study, conducted by U.S. News, studied total of 80 countries across categories such as Adventure, Citizenship, Culture, Heritage, Entrepreneurship, Open to Business, Power and Quality of life.
Here are some snapshots hot off the press
Canada recieved an overall rank of #2 totalling score accross all the categoreis
And scored the perfect #1 under “Quality of Life”
Top countries Canada Beat to reach the #1 in Quality of Life are Sweden, Denmark, Australia and Norway.
This blog was a long due, a list of websites that allow printable worksheets. These educational worksheets may be used to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care resources, elementary school classroom, or home school curriculum.
First School Age Group 2 – 6
First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6).
2. TLS Books Preschoolers – Grade 6th
Tlsbooks offers you a variety of free printable worksheets to use at home or in the classroom. You’ll find thousands of worksheets appropriate for students in preschool through sixth grade. These educational worksheets may be used to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care resources, elementary school classroom, or home school curriculum.
3. Worksheetfun
Worksheetfun has well categorized huge collection of Printable worksheets for Preschool, Kindergarten and First Grader.
4. Daycareworksheets
Focusing mostly on Preschoolers, Daycareworksheets has good collection of worksheets accross English, Activities, and Math. They also have integrated stores where you can instant download pre-compiled packages for as low as $5
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Do you run a Daycare? Check out this link to download free printable sample child letters and forms and reports that you can modify and print for your own use.
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Parents often worry about their children spending too much time online, or on smartphones and tablets. However, in the era of internet of things, learning programming is an utmost essential skill your child would need in his or her future life.
There are smart gadgets out there that can help kids develop programming skills while providing them with a safe environment to explore, play and grow. Kids can get concepts of programming even before the lear to read!
We have here 5 gadgets that provide a new form of interaction for the toddlers and Preschoolers. Some of them are created to help your child pick up a new programming language, others, essential problem-solving skills. These smart toys are very different from the toys today’s adults grew up in but if you are a parent who want to give your child a headstart in technology, these may be the gadgets that can help.
Cubetto
Primo is a toy to help your child to learn programming, even before they learn how to read. It is made up of three main elements: a robot called Cubetto, an interface for input of instructions, and instruction blocks which delivers instructions of how the robot should move.
2. Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar
This unique caterpillar learning toy encourages kids to experiment as they play, helping them to develop coding, sequencing and critical thinking skills.Code-a-Pillar features 9 easy-to-connect segments that preschoolers can arrange and rearrange to “tell” the toy how to move: forward, left, right, wiggle, dance or even wait for a couple seconds before moving again. Kids can configure the segments in such a way that the Code-a-Pillar can reach targets they set up throughout the room. There’s even a motorized head segment with lights, sounds and blinking eyes that brings Code-a-Pillar to life! Ready … set … code! When kids connect the segments—in tons of different ways—to make Code-a-Pillar move left, then right, then forward, or wherever– that’s sequencing!
3. Robot Turtles
Not to be confused with the teenage mutants, Robot Turtles is a board game and ebook that teaches the fundamentals of programming to kids aged 3 – 8.
Preschoolers can learn programming one turtle move at a time. Robot Turtles takes seconds to learn, minutes to play and provides endless learning opportunities. Through fun play and Code Cards, players move their Robot Turtles around the game board to reach a prized jewel. With every move preschoolers learn programming, from coding to functions, and get a jumpstart on 21st century thinking skills. This might be a coding board game for little programmers, but the entire family will love playing it, too.
4. Kano – Computer & coding kits for all ages
The Kano lets kids assemble their own actual computer, using a Raspberry Pi-powered board, basic wiring, and modular display unit.
5. Puzzlets
Pairing with a tablet or computer, Puzzlets looks like an old-fashioned tile game but actually introduces complex coding and programming challenges. Kids use the tiles to move characters through 120 progressively more difficult levels.
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We all know daycare costs a lot in Vancouver, provided you find a spot in a daycare of your choice. Recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives gives an eye-popping statistics that further validates Parents’ concerns.
Here are some of the stark revelations within the report:
Vancouver has the second highest median infant fees at $1,321 a month, or $15,852 a year, next only to Toronto(Considering Toronto and Suburbs as single entity). Compare this against The lowest infant fees in Montreal at $164 a month. Center Based Daycares are on an average 20% costlier than Home based Daycares accross Catagories.
Vancouver is next only to Toronto with monthly toddler fees of $1,325, an increase of 9% since 2014 (more than three times the rate of inflation). Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, ranks third highest for monthly toddler fees at $1,210 a month. On forth position is Burnaby, again a suburb of Vancouver at $1,200 a month – increase of 18% since 2014, which is highest across Canada. The least expensive cities were Montreal at $164 a month, Quebec City, Longueuil, Laval and Gatineau at $179 a month and Winnipeg at $451 a month.
Average Preschool fee in Vancouver is $950 that may seem a lotcomparing to the other end of the spectrum i.e Montreal with fees of $164 a month, the other cities in Quebec at $179 a month and Winnipeg at $451 a month. Still this is almost 20% below to what Parents in Greater Toronto are paying.
After all that, you may not even be able to get a spot.
95 per cent of child care centres in Vancouver have a wait list, and many charge waiting-list fees and offer no guarantee of securing your offspring a place.
Are you a Parent looking for a daycare? Wish you all the best with your search. We have a compilation of some resources to help ease the pain of finding a Daycare (Unfortunately we can’t help you with the price 🙁 )
Finding the right daycare for your loved child might seem daunting at first. Daycares across Canada are operating over their capacity with waitlists over 6 months. In cities like Vancouver, the wait times of some of the well-known Daycares is as ridiculously high as 2 Years. To land a spot with a daycare center or home daycare of your choice, you must search smart, be thorough and start as soon as possible.
Once you find a promising daycare center or home daycare, you’ll need to take a few steps to make sure it’s one you want to stick with. We’ve outlined the process for you below.
One: Set your priorities straight
Try answering these questions before you start searching for the daycare:
What is the preferred location for the center? You want it near your home Or near your office. Is a canter on the route from your home to office acceptable?
Will you consider home daycares that are in general a bit cheaper than regular daycare centers and easily available?
How urgent is your daycare requirement? Do you have time at hand to go on the waitlists or need something right away?
Will you need the services outside of regular hours?
Two: Do your research
Ask Friends and family for references.
To find out how a particular daycare ranks with other parents, read reviews on sites like Yelp, Google
Use the phone book. Your online Yellow Pages should have a list of childcare centers and home daycares in your area. If you’re new to the area, this may be the best place to start – print a copy of the listings and start calling around.
Most centers are too busy to give you all the required details over the phone or at a dropIn. You will need to take up a prior Appointment to visit the center. You can ask a few preliminary questions over the phone (fees, availability ages of children, for example), but you won’t really get a sense of what a daycare place is like until you go there and meet the staff and director.
While visiting the daycare center look for answers to the below questions:
Ask daycare center directors and caregivers and home daycare providers about everything from hours, fees, and vacation schedules to philosophies on childrearing issues like discipline, feeding, and sleeping.
Get a schedule of the day’s activities and the center’s policies. Pay attention to your gut feeling and how the director or caregiver handles the questions.
Pay attention to the caregiver-child ratios, and how many children are in a classroom.
Four: Check references
Ask the Daycare or the Day Home for present and past parent references and make sure you dial the number and talk to the references. Hearing how other Parents rate the center, it will help you make a better judgment call. When you call, ask specific questions (don’t ask if they like the center – ask what exactly they like about it and what they don’t). If their child is no longer there, ask why.
For the benefit of all the Parents searching for Daycares in Canada, we bring you the compilation of the official website links toget list of all the Licenced Daycares in your Province.
Most of the Parents start their Daycare search with Google . No doubt, google is the beast that dominates searches accross the world for all sorts of searches people around the world can think of. The problem – Largerly data is unstructured that makes comparisions difficult. And for someone searching for Daycare, comparision of multiple daycare options is one of the biggest concern.
Here we bring you the top picks of Mobile Apps and Websites focused on finding the daycares in your neighbourhood.
Daycarebear aims to connect parents with best babysitters and daycare centers in Canada, enabling parents to search their directory of early child care providers, as well as to discuss various benefits and downsides of early daycare in their forums. Drawback of this website is that you only get a list of Daycares that chose to advertise their Vacancies. There are a number of other daycares that may have Vacacnies or accepting Waitlists that you will miss if you depend solely on this website.
Even though it currently only covers the Toronto area, CubbySpot app helps you in finding the right daycare or preschool for your child. The app helps you locate daycare centers with available and open applications and you can also manage all you daycare applications and waiting lists in one place.
Another Source of Canadian daycare listings and child care information. Can be used by Parents throughout Canada. It allows parents to not only browse daycare listings by city, but to find daycare providers quickly and easily in their local area by postal code, nearest intersection, or home or work address.
Canada Child Care Directory provides parents and guardians with one of the most user friendly lists of Child Care Centres, Daycares, Family and Home Daycares, Preschools, Playschools, Nursery Schools, Montessori, Kindergartens and Before and After School Child Care on the Internet today.
Of course, we’d like to mention our own FREE app. Carewiser app helps you in finding the right daycare or preschool for your child based on your location. The app helps you locate daycare centers with available Vacancies as well as provide information in a consistent format for easy comparision of different daycare centers. Download it from the App Store or Google Play store now.
If you are a parent living in BC and searching for a daycare, you are in luck. Gov of BC recently launched a Childcare map that provides a list of all Licenced Daycares/Dayhomes in BC along with their Vacancy status on a map format. In some cases, the Vacancy information is outdated as Subsidized daycares in BC are required to report their Vacacny status every 2 months to the gov. However, you still get the list of all the Licensed daycares and some Vacacny leads.
