Principle 5.1: Programs encourage children to initiate and participate in play and recreational experiences Principle 5.2: Programs support physical development Principle 5.3: Programs support the development of life skills Principle 5.4: Programs support creative and aesthetic development

Recommended book titles:

Active for life: Developmentally appropriate movement programs for young children
Before 9 after 3: A handbook for outside school hours care
Building walls of wombats: Constructing knowledge with young children
Challenging behaviours in early childhood settings: Creating a place for all children
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
Designs for living and learning: Transforming early childhood environments
Developing learning in early childhood: 0-8 years
Discipline in school-age care: Control the climate, not the children
Early childhood environmental education: Making it mainstream
Early learning environments that work
Enhancing children's development
Every Child - Creative arts - Vol 11 No 2, 2005
Every Child - Spirituality - Vol 8 No 4, 2002
Games children play: The effects of media violence on young children
Hollyhocks and honeybees: Gardening projects for young children
In the spirit of the studio: Learning from the atelier of Reggio Emilia
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 with computers (second edition)
Lessons from my child: Parents' experiences of life with a disabled child
Managing difficult behaviour in young children
Outdoor play: Teaching strategies with young children
Rapunzel's supermarket: All about young children and their art
Reading magic: How your child can learn to read and other read-aloud miracles
Reflections: Reggio Emelia principles within Australian contexts
Rethinking gender in early childhood education
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
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 lost art of childhood: How to do things families have forgotten
The magic of relaxation: Tai Chi and visualisation exercises for young children
The power of guidance: Teaching social-emotional skills in early childhood classrooms
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