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KEEPING YOUR CHILDREN SAFE
ONLINE
By John Parsons
potton & burton
Keeping Your Children Safe Online
is an
empowering book for all parents in our
modern society due to the internet having
taken a central place in our lives and the
universal adoption of smartphones and
computers.
Although most of the book is geared for
parents of older children and teenagers
it’s also an important read for parents of
younger children to develop strategies in
dealing with the challenges of the digital
world before it’s crucial.
The book is in two parts with Part One giving
strategies to parents by taking their existing
parental skills and updating for the digital
age and introduce fundamental concepts
and strategies to help children stay safe
online such as parents asking their children
from a young age for their permission to
add their photos on to social media and
transferring family values into the online
environment, ie all family members not using
their cell phones at the table, not just the
children, etc.
Part Two focuses more on specific risks
young people can face including sexual
predation and cyber-bullying.
This book would be a fantastic resource for
ECE centres to share with families and also
for their own knowledge to help support and
offer guidance to their families.
THE NEW ZEALAND ART
ACTIVITY BOOK (NEW EDITION)
By Helen Lloyd
Te Papa Press
The New Zealand Art Activity Book
has
hands-on creative activities which have
mostly been designed for older children to
explore and express ideas and techniques
similar to those used by the featured artists.
Although designed for older children there
are still a lot of ideas that can be used in
an early childhood environment to extend
children’s art, expression and creativity.
The book has over 50 significant historical
and contemporary works from the country’s
national collection at Te Papa, as well as 15
commission art pieces from contemporary
New Zealand artists.
The artworks chosen use a variety of
mediums and techniques by Māori, Pacific,
Pākehā and New Zealand Asian artists.
Māori and Pacific phrases are also used
throughout the book to encourage and
expand children’s language skills.
Activities include: imagining and drawing
what you might see through a window
or what could be floating on clouds, or
designing your own treasure box, using
flowers to make dye, making recycled lei
or building sculptures from found objects,
kōwhaiwhai creation, etc.
WOLFY
By Grégoire Solotareff
Gecko Press
Wolfy
is a book about friendship, difference
and empathy between a wolf and a rabbit
who choose to be best friends.
The pair met and become good friends. Tom
the rabbit teaches the wolf to play marbles,
read, count and fish. Wolfy (who Tom names)
teaches Tom to run very fast. But eventually
their friendship is tested by the classic game
‘Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?’
Children will enjoy the animated illustrations
and is a great story to read aloud to both
large and small groups of children.
December 2017
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