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An interest in food can start in the classroom
I have recently been working with a local school in my area providing cooking lessons as part of their personal learning activity. I was trying to think of activities to...
Visual Storytelling…Technology Convert
I felt compelled to share with you the following short video (Click on the link to download it). The voice that you hear is of a 3 ½ year old on the autistic spectrum....
National Storytelling Week
We’re on the verge of National Storytelling Week. Between Saturday January 28th and Saturday February 4th, events that are part of the week will be happening all over t...
What is a learning journey?
In early years circles the term ‘learning journeys’ (sometimes referred to as learning journals) refers to a collection of different documents collected by ea...
EYFS Enabling environments
Some of our eagle eyed visitors may have noticed that over the last few weeks we’ve made a couple of changes to the resource categories on the site. We’ve removed the...
Chinese New Year Resources
I don’t think I ever got around to wishing all our visitors a Happy New Year, so here goes… Happy New Year to y’all. It’s been a good year here at ELHQ so tha...
Early Years Numeracy: Treasure Hunts
Treasure hunts can be a great way of introducing mathematical concepts and encouraging mathematical development in early years settings …they can also be great fun!...
BETT for primary schools
Next week sees the annual BETT show, when teachers with an interest in technology flock to London to see the latest developments in computing and software for schools. Th...
Early Years Numeracy: Guessing games
These games are fun and require no mathematical skill to play. Success relies on luck! They do however give rich opportunities for number recognition,counting, calculati...
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