Download or read book A Very Unusual Journey Into Play written by Ben Kingston-Hughes and published by Sage Publications UK. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the definitive guide to how play can transform children’s lives. Bringing together for the strands of research on play, this book shows the unique and profound place play has in the neurological development, emotional well-being and health of children.
Download or read book You Can t Say You Can t Play written by Vivian Gussin Paley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become as adults, the memory of those early exclusions is as palpable to each of us today as it is common to human experience. We remember the uncertainty of separating from our home and entering school as strangers and, more than the relief of making friends, we recall the cruel moments of our own isolation as well as those children we knew were destined to remain strangers. In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable fairy tale into her narrative description. Paley introduces a new rule—“You can’t say you can’t play”—to her kindergarten classroom and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as those who do the rejecting. One child, objecting to the rule, says, “It will be fairer, but how are we going to have any fun?” Another child defends the principle of classroom bosses as a more benign way of excluding the unwanted. In a brilliant twist, Paley mixes fantasy and reality, and introduces a new voice into the debate: Magpie, a magical bird, who brings lonely people to a place where a full share of the sun is rightfully theirs. Myth and morality begin to proclaim the same message and the schoolhouse will be the crucible in which the new order is tried. A struggle ensues and even the Magpie stories cannot avoid the scrutiny of this merciless pack of social philosophers who will not be easily caught in a morality tale. You Can’t Say You Can’t Play speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs. Is exclusivity part of human nature? Can we legislate fairness and still nurture creativity and individuality? Can children be freed from the habit of rejection? These are some of the questions. The answers are to be found in the words of Paley’s schoolchildren and in the wisdom of their teacher who respectfully listens to them.
Download or read book Atlas of Improbable Places written by Travis Elborough and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Download or read book Not Always Happy written by Kari Wagner-Peck and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving memoir about finding and adopting a son from the foster care system with Down syndrome and realizing that life is best lived by expecting the unplanned. As time passes, the author and her husband become less aware they are raising an atypical or adopted child. They are raising their child, no different than any other family.
Download or read book Why Children Need Joy written by Ben Kingston-Hughes and published by Sage Publications UK. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transformative book looks at one of the most undervalued aspects of childhood, joy. Using the latest neuroscience and biochemistry this book shows that joy, far from being an abstract concept, is one of the key motivators for every aspect of learning and development throughout childhood and something we ignore at our peril. The book gives concrete strategies for increasing the levels of joy in our children and highlights the catastrophic damage that a decline in joy can cause in our children especially in a post pandemic world. Suitable for anyone who works with children, this book puts forward a compelling argument that Joy is profoundly important for all of our children and can fundamentally help our children to thrive. Warning - may contain evil clowns!
Download or read book Bruno s Unusual Journey written by Denise McAleer and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early summer 2020, a black bear from Wisconsin made an unusual journey almost 400 miles across four states in nearly four weeks in search of a mate. His journey captured the hearts of thousands who went to all means to catch a glimpse of this majestic black bear whom they affectionately named Bruno. His story has made history and his journey continues on...
Download or read book The Wonderful Travellers Containing A Journey Into the Interior of the Earth and Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egyptological Researches Results of a journey in 1906 written by Wilhelm Max Müller and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Theory of Everything Else written by Dan Schreiber and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pleasure. ... Suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party." —Dan Piepenbring, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Absorbing. ... As thoughtfully written as it is nuts." —Chicago Tribune A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roaming the Earth? And why, when you’re in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you? We don’t know the answers to any of these questions (that includes the shower-curtain one, which is a mystery that has eluded scientists for decades, and which they are still trying to solve). But don’t worry, no matter what questions you have, you can bet on the fact that there is someone (or something) out there, investigating it on your behalf—and Dan Schreiber collects their latest findings. From the Silicon Valley tech billionaires currently trying to work out whether or not the universe is one giant video game simulation to the self-proclaimed community of Italian time-travelers who are trying to save the world from destruction; The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.
Download or read book Handle with Care written by Loree Griffin Burns and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some farms grow vegetables or grains, and some raise cows, sheep, chickens, or pigs. But have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do you raise a butterfly? On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae. Like any other crop, the butterflies will eventually leave the farm. But where will they go? And just how do you ship a butterfly? Very carefully! To discover how it works, follow these butterflies on a remarkable journey!
Download or read book Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States written by Military Service Institution of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal written by Military Service Institution of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Sketches of an Architect Taken During a Journey in the Northwest of Europe written by Félix Narjoux and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wizard s Son written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey to America in 1834 written by Robert Heywood and published by [Cambridge] : Printed for the editor at the University Press Cambridge. This book was released on 1919 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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