Principle 4.1: Staff encourage each child to make choices and participate in play Principle 4.2: Staff promote each child's ability to develop and maintain relationshipst Principle 4.3: Staff promote each child's language and literacy abilities Principle 4.4: Staff promote each child's problem solving and mathematical abilities Principle 4.5: Staff promote each child's enjoyment of and participation in the expressive arts Principle 4.6: Staff promote each child's physical abilities

Recommended book titles:

A parent's guide to preschool
Active for life: Developmentally appropriate movement programs for young children
Attachment: Building secure relationships in early childhood
Babies: Good beginnings last forever
Building a classroom community: The early childhood teacher's role
Building bridges: Literacy development in young Indigenous children
Building Bridges DVD
Building walls of wombats: Constructing knowledge with young children
Building your baby's brain: A parent's guide to the first five years
Children as illustrators: Making meaning through art and language
Children, meaning-making and the arts
Children with special needs: Lessons for early childhood professionals
Clay and children: More than making pots
Creating readers: Over 1000 games, activities tongue twisters, fingerplays, songs and stories to get children excited about reading
Developing learning in early childhood: 0-8 years
Early childhood environmental education: Making it mainstream
Early development risk and disability: Relational contexts
Early learning environments that work
Educating and caring for very young children: The infant toddler curriculum
Enhancing children's development
Every Child - Creative arts - Vol 11 No 2, 2005
Every Child - Spirituality - Vol 8 No 4, 2002
Everyday learning about brothers and sisters
Everyday learning about friendship
Everyday learning about maths
Everyday learning about talking
Everyday learning in the backyard
Everyday learning in the kitchen
Games children play: The effects of media violence on young children
Hollyhocks and honeybees: Gardening projects for young children
How to develop children's early literacy: A guide for professional carers and educators
In the spirit of the studio: Learning from the atelier of Reggio Emilia
Innovations: Infant and toddler development
Inviting play: Photographs
Just discover! Connecting young children with the natural world
Just imagine! Creative play experiences for children under six
Just improvise! Innovative play experiences for children under eight
Just investigate! Science and technology experiences for young children
Learning about art
Learning about feelings
Learning about music
Learning about science
Learning to read
Learning with computers (second edition)
Lessons from my child: Parents' experiences of life with a disabled child
Literacy learning in the early years
Make way for literacy: Teaching the way young children learn
Managing difficult behaviour in young children
Observing and planning in early childhood settings: Using a sociocultural approach
Our part in peace
Outdoor play: Teaching strategies with young children
Overlooked curriculum: Seeing everyday possibilities
Playgrounds that work: Creating outdoor play environments for children birth to eight years
Preschool art: It's the process, not the product
Preschool math
Promoting resilience in children
Quick quality check for infant and toddler programs
Rapunzel's supermarket: All about young children and their art
Reading magic: How your child can learn to read and other read-aloud miracles
Reading right from the start: What parents can do in the first five years
Reflecting children's lives: A handbook for planning child-centred curriculum
Reflections: Reggio Emelia principles within Australian contexts
Rethinking attachment for early childhood practice: Promoting security, autonomy and resilience in young children
Revisiting celebrations with young children
Saving our children from our chaotic world: Teaching children the magic of silence and stillness
Science for children: Developing a personal approach to teaching
Snails live in houses too: Environmental education for the early years
So this is normal too? Teachers and Parents working out developmental issues in young children
Spotlight on young children and language
Spotlight on young children and math
Spotlight on young children and play
Spotlight on young children and science
Start smart: Building brain power in the early years
Starting school: How to help your child be prepared
Stories for telling: Rhymes, puppets, drama
Storytelling with young children
Supporting young learners 2: Ideas for child care providers and teachers
That's not fair: A teachers guide to activism with young children
The colours of learning: Integrating the visual arts into the early childhood curriculum
The complete daily curriculum for early childhood: Over 1200 easy activities to support multiple intelligences and learning Styles
The creative curriculum for preschool (fourth edition)
The happy toddler: A parents guide to nurturing a happy and confident toddler
The magic of relaxation: Tai Chi and visualisation exercises for young children
The power of guidance: Teaching social-emotional skills in early childhood classrooms
The power of projects: Meeting contemporary challenges in early childhood classrooms - strategies and solutions
The young child and mathematics
Understanding children's feelings: Emotional literacy in early childhood
What happened to the world? Helping children cope in turbulent times
Young children's behaviour: Practical approaches for caregivers and teachers (second edition)
Young gifted children: Meeting their needs
'You're going to love this kid!' : Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom
Your child's emotional needs: What they are and how to meet them