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Babies learn through play
A baby is alert and listening from birth. From six weeks, they are able to smile, turn their head towards light and respond to a familiar voice. Everything they see, hear...
Mathematics with the Dinosaurs
Early Years Practitioners respond to the current interests of their children and in one setting I visited in December, it happened to be dinosaurs. I asked if there were...
Chinese New Year 2013 Resources
One of our visitors reminded me this week that we hadn’t updated our Chinese New Year section for 2013. So I managed to clear a bit of time to update some of our resour...
How to manage noise during group work
This is part of a series of posts taken from Dr David Smawfield’s catalogue of resources created to help new teachers, or teachers in training, feel comfortable in thei...
National Storytelling Week 2013
26th January to 2nd February is National Storytelling Week 2013. Young children use the spoken word to express how they feel, make sense of the world, tell us what they h...
Communicating with a D/deaf Child
This month we would like to talk a little bit about how to communicate with a deaf child. Many adults, teachers, medical professionals have no experience of commun...
Building with blocks: building stories with words
During a visit to a nursery to explore developing language through outdoor play, I was sharing out a collection of pine cones. Three-year-old Elizabeth was very keen to h...
What to take into account when organising students into groups
This is part of a series of posts taken from Dr David Smawfield’s catalogue of resources created to help new teachers, or teachers in training, feel comfortable in thei...
The use of group work in primary schools
This is part of a series of posts taken from Dr David Smawfield’s catalogue of resources created to help new teachers, or teachers in training, feel comfortable in thei...
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