07 Professional Practice-In this reflection I showed how I used Demyan's language to describe to him things he didn't understand in English so as to make him settle in toddler room. This facilitated a sense of welcome for Demyan. Early childhood education and programmes should be inclusive even for children who come from a non English speaking background. Therefore by involving Demyan in the programmes especially mat times allowed him to be involved and learn English through action songs. By using visual cues and gestures alongside words in action songs assisted Demyan to acquire English as a second language.

27 Professional Leadership- By having an environment that facilitated Demyan's learning and also the mat times supported this diversity. Demyan attended Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Mondays were my mat time days so I would use more action songs to facilitate his involvement in mat time.

Professional leadership(28)- I participated in "Personality Plus Profile",which was a professional development workshop that touched on four characteristics, mainly the powerful,playful, precise and peaceful.Coming from a different cultural background, having grown up in different environments,this workshop helped me understand and relate well with my colleagues in the context of our working environments. We also had a meeting as a team and we discussed how we can encourage each other on the good aspects of our characters. We came up with the idea of "fazzy jars" where we put good comments for each other and at the end of the week each reads comments from her "fazzy jar". I liked this idea as it serves as some kind of "reinforcement " of good personality.

Professional Knowledge (1) the Early Childhood Regulations- I am aware of the centre's regulation that children should not be left unsupervised especially if that seriously affects quality of care being provided or safety of a child.

As a teacher, if you have the professional knowledge you are able to use the assessment results to plan further learning for individual students as shown on "showing an emerging interest", "snails" then the "bug hunt". You also provide materials which support the goals and engage students. I used magnifying glasses to motivate and engage Henry in his learning and to enable him to notice that magnifying glasses make the bug look bigger.

Teaching (16)- I noted that the children had developed interest in a crane and I explained to them how it works. Mostly I was thrilled with the way they would find a strategic position to be able to see and also how they thought that I could lift them so as to clearly see. I demonstrated that I can be flexible and respond to the needs of the children thus successfully engaging them so as to guide them in their learning.

Professional knowledge (5)- Instead of going to look for snails and slugs I used a book to help the child recap on what he had learnt the previous day.

Professional knowledge (6)- I chose books, life- like toys and pictures to extend the children's interest in insects and bugs.