Outdoors is a great space to enhance and extend children’s learning. There are lots of children who have a natural affinity with the outdoors and use it as their preferred learning space. As adults supporting children’s learning, it is important to support the investigation of their outdoor environment, but also that learning is taken into those spaces and delivered to children in the most engaging way that it can be. What you can (almost) always guarantee is children’s enthusiasm to take their learning outdoors, what you can’t always guarantee is the weather! In 50 Fantastic Ideas for Outdoor All Year Round Alistair has created 50 ideas that will get children and practitioners outside and learning come rain, snow, wind or … Read More
50 Fantastic Ideas for Celebrations and Festivals
Important dates and occasions are often marked with a variety of celebrations and festivals. These occasions are also important markers for children in the passing of time and repeated experience. In Early Years education the best time to talk about a celebration or festival is often after it has occurred rather than before it happens. This is because many young children don’t have a strong memory or understanding of something that occurred a year ago. So the closer they are to the experience, the richer their learning can be.In this colourful new book by Alistair Bryce-Clegg there are activities that cover: Christmas Diwali Easter Hanukkah Chinese New Year Halloween Bonfire Night Each activity encourages the children to learn about a … Read More
50 Fantastic Ideas for Early Writing Prompts
If children are not interested or motivated by what they have been asked to write about, you can be sure that any writing you do get will be rushed, short and a bit half-hearted. In 50 Fantastic Ideas for Early Writing Prompts, Alistair Bryce-Clegg offers a collection of all of his favourite ideas and inspirations that have motivated the children he works with to pick up their pencils and get scribbling! – See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/50-fantastic-ideas-for-early-writing-prompts-9781472913258/#sthash.HCJfUB4d.dpuf Published: 13-08-2015 Format: Paperback & PDF eBook Edition: 1st ISBN: 9781472913258 Imprint: Featherstone Education
50 Fantastic Ideas for Mark Making
Children are naturally drawn to making marks. Long before they pick up a pencil or a paintbrush, they will experiment with making marks using hands, fingers, feet etc as well as various found objects that they come across in day-to-day life. For children to become really confident and secure mark makers we need to provide them with lots of different opportunities with a variety of exciting mark making resources in many different contexts.Alistair Bryce-Clegg has collected together a whole host of ideas for different mark making utensils, as well as exploring numerous substances and surfaces that children can mark make on. Some of the ideas will support children to create their own ‘masterpieces’ while others will encourage them to make … Read More