Download or read book Outdoor Play for Healthy Little Minds written by Sarah Watkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the mental health of young children through outdoor play. Promoting social and emotional wellbeing in childhood has never been more important, and outdoor play is a crucial tool to build resilience, develop healthy relationships, and boost self-esteem. Using relatable case studies that demonstrate achievable change, the book is full of practical advice and strategies for exploring nature in both natural and man-made landscapes, and includes guidance on how to co-create inviting play spheres with children. Each chapter provides: Adaptable and cost-effective activities designed to help children feel more confident and connected to the world around them. Case studies and reflective opportunities to prompt practitioners to consider and develop their own practice. An accessible and engaging format with links to theorists, risk assessment, and individual schemas. Outdoor play allows young children to explore who they are and what they can do. It supports them as they learn to think critically, take risks, and form a true sense of belonging with their peers and with the wider community. This is an indispensable resource for practising and trainee early years practitioners, Reception teachers, and childminders as they facilitate outdoor play in their early years setting.
Download or read book The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book written by Krissy Bonning-Gould and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Your Toddler's Education Outside There's almost nothing better for toddlers than outdoor play. It promotes creativity, strengthens muscles, enhances social and emotional development, and most importantly, it makes learning fun. So grab The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book, take your toddler outside, and watch the joy of learning in the fresh air. Spring or winter, rain or shine--these simple-to-setup toddler activities are designed to make the most of being outdoors no matter what the season or weather. And with chapters devoted to the type of outdoor activity, you can let your toddler be as messy, loud, or active as they want. Best of all, skill-building icons show what each activity teaches your little one so you can help guide their growth. The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book includes: TONS OF WAYS TO PLAY--From "Make it Messy!" to "Embrace Nature," discover 5 categories of outdoor fun featuring more than 100 educational toddler activities. ACTIVITIES FOR EVERY SEASON, ANY WEATHER--Keep going year-round with toddler activities designed for more than just sunny spring days. A GUIDE TO TODDLER DEVELOPMENT--Developmental milestones help you determine your toddler's level of readiness for each activity. Skill-building icons tell you what your toddler is learning. Get your toddler ready for preschool and beyond with these fun and educational outdoor toddler activities.
Download or read book The Little Book of Outdoor Play written by Sally Featherstone and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge range of ideas for outdoor games and activities.
Download or read book Outside In written by Deborah Underwood and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 Caldecott Honor Book From the New York Times best-selling author behind The Quiet Book comes a mindful contemplation on the many ways nature affects our everyday lives, even when we’re stuck inside. Five starred reviews! Perfect for fans of Joyce Sidman and Julie Fogliano, Outside In reminds emerging readers of the ways nature creates and touches our lives in homes, apartments, and cars, and is the perfect homeschooling tool to reflect on the world’s connectedness. Outside is waiting, the most patient playmate of all. The most generous friend. The most miraculous inventor. This thought-provoking picture book poetically underscores our powerful and enduring connection with nature, not so easily obscured by lives spent indoors. Rhythmic, powerful language shows us how our world is made and the many ways Outside comes in to help and heal us, and reminds us that we are all part of a much greater universe. Emotive illustrations evoke the beauty, simplicity, and wonder that await us all . . . outside.
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Outdoor Play and Learning written by Tim Waller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coordinated and comprehensive volume of international research on this subject edited by members of the well-established European Early Childhood Education Research Association Outdoor Play and Learning SIG (OPAL).
Download or read book Let s Go Outside written by Jennifer Ward and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engage your child in outdoor play, nature outings, and environmental explorations. Chase and be chased in a game of capture the flag. Use the power of the sun to craft your own shadow prints. Explore the stars on a late night walk. Create a field guide to your neighborhood. Through 52 ideas—some classic and some new—Let's Go Outside! offers a range of activities perfect for children ages 8 to 12. Whether you're in the country, the city, or anywhere in between, this book is sure to help you get outside—and run, dance, hike, or camp—with your preteen. Sections of the book include: • Back to Basics: Reconnecting with twists on traditional games and activities such as Capture the Flag • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Picnics, doing homework outdoors, and socializing opportunities outdoors • Outdoor Adventures: Canoeing, biking, and camping • Environmental Experiments: Ways to explore how nature works
Download or read book The Little Book of Outdoor Play written by Sally Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Balanced and Barefoot written by Angela J. Hanscom and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angela Hanscom is a powerful voice for balance." —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today’s kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies show that children need “rough and tumble” outdoor play in order to develop their sensory, motor, and executive functions. Disturbingly, a lack of movement has been shown to lead to a number of health and cognitive difficulties, such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotion regulation and sensory processing issues, and aggressiveness at school recess break. So, how can you ensure your child is fully engaging their body, mind, and all of their senses? Using the same philosophy that lies at the heart of her popular TimberNook program—that nature is the ultimate sensory experience, and that psychological and physical health improves for children when they spend time outside on a regular basis—author Angela Hanscom offers several strategies to help your child thrive, even if you live in an urban environment. Today it is rare to find children rolling down hills, climbing trees, or spinning in circles just for fun. We’ve taken away merry-go-rounds, shortened the length of swings, and done away with teeter-totters to keep children safe. Children have fewer opportunities for unstructured outdoor play than ever before, and recess times at school are shrinking due to demanding educational environments. With this book, you’ll discover little things you can do anytime, anywhere to help your kids achieve the movement they need to be happy and healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
Download or read book Little Book of Outdoor Play written by Sally Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gruffalo and Friends Outdoor Activity Book written by Julia Donaldson and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun-filled outdoor activity book, based on four bestselling picture books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Download or read book The Little Book of Role Play Windows written by Melanie Roan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Role Play Windows provides a range of fun role play activities, in which scenarios are acted out through a window made using just a cardboard box. Playing with pedal cars can transform into a car park scenario with car park attendant; dressing up play can be extended by creating a fancy dress hire shop; and playing with soft toy animals can lead on to a trip to the vets!
Download or read book The Little Book of Free and Found written by Julie Mountain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Free and Found Resources gives practitioners the confidence to get out there and source unique, free resources to enrich the curriculum they offer their children. Guidance is provided on choosing resources, risk assessing their use, and then encouraging children's creative use of the objects in their free and found collection. The focus is very much on outdoor play.
Download or read book Forest School Adventure written by Dan Westall and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young children will be immersed in imaginative, messy play and crafts, while older ones can work on more complex activities like stone tool making and sourcing water. Whether in an organized setting, a group of friends or a family outing, the fun-filled games will build confidence, bonding and result in happy children. Entertaining anecdotes from the authors' own experience of surviving in the wild can be read aloud to children, bringing to life the thrilling reality of sleeping in a cave or savoring your first-ever foraged meal. Learn how to light a fire without matches, build a shelter to sleep in, cook on a fire, hunt for bugs and much more. From essential bushcraft basics and Stone Age survival skills to joyful outdoor play, this book is packed with ideas to bring children closer to nature and all its magical offerings.
Download or read book The Little Book of Maths Outdoors written by Terry Gould and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with advice & ideas for everybody working with children in early years settings & aiming to meet goals of EYLF. Activities are carefully planned to meet objectives for each stage of development, particularly between 36 & 60 months.
Download or read book The Little Book of Parachute Play written by Clare Beswick and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of ideas for using home-made or commercially produced parachutes with young children. All the games have been tried with Foundation Stage groups and there are even simple instructions for making your own parachute.
Download or read book The Little Book of Small World Play written by Sharon Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small world play activities provide opportunities for learning both indoors and outdoors. Play activities help children learn with both enjoyment and challenge. All the activities in this book can be adapted to suit your setting and the topics you are covering. Collecting your own resources for the activities and exploring them with your children will give as much pleasure as using them in adult directed activities.
Download or read book Playing and Learning Outdoors written by Jan White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing and Learning Outdoors shows early years practitioners how to get the very best from outdoor playing and learning for the enjoyment, health and education of all children from ages three to five years. Fully updated to reflect the current status and understandings regarding outdoor provision within early childhood education frameworks, this new edition will allow practitioners to develop rich and stimulating outdoor play provision in Early Years settings and enable them to feel confident to offer wonderful play experiences outdoors. Playing and Learning Outdoors offers practitioners achievable advice and support, based on approaches which are appropriate and effective for young children’s all-round well-being and development. This invaluable resource also includes practical advice on: movement and physical play playing with sand, natural materials and water plants, living things and growing construction, creative and imaginative play. This second edition also includes a brand new chapter on ‘Providing experiences beyond the garden walls’ which will urge practitioners to harness the huge potential contained in the locality (physical world) and local community (human world) around the early years setting’s own boundaries. Filled with advice and support, this lively, inspiring and accessible book will help practitioners to develop a truly practical and enjoyable approach to learning through play outdoors for all children aged from 3 to 7.
