Download or read book The Little Book of Prop Boxes for Role Play written by Ann Roberts and published by Featherstone. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have a different focus for your role play by collecting resources and equipment for some specific settings. These suggestions are all for easily managed and stored selections for popular subjects. Little Books are particularly suitable for use with children aged between 36 and 60+ months. They are carefully planned to meet the objectives for each stage of development and reflect the latest thinking on the education of young children. Little Books make an excellent start to an exciting journey through learning.
Download or read book The Little Book of Prop Boxes for Role Play written by Sally Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 82 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 66 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 The Little Book of Parachute Play written by Clare Beswick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parachute can be a wonderful resource, with a little planning and preperation, to support everyone's learning from the youngest children to those who are busily pushing the boundaries of Key Stage 1, ready for more. All activities are easy to do, with clear concise instructions covering all six areas of learning.
Download or read book The Little Book of Look and Listen written by Su Wall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Books series is packed with great ideas to help teach children important early learning concepts.
Download or read book The Little Book of Storytelling written by Mary Medlicott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Mary Medlicott help you with a key skill - telling stories without a book. Ideas and activities are carefully explored so you feel confident and enjoy the experience as much as the children will.
Download or read book The Little Book of Sequencing Skills written by Keri Finlayson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activities and suggestions in The Little Book of Sequencing Skills will help you and the children in your care to explore a range of creative ways to develop sequencing skills. The ability to sequence events and objects is essential for young children's learning and the ability to put thoughts and actions into sequence is important for the development many competencies. Sequencing skills are often associated with communication and literacy but the ability to predict 'what will come next,' whether it be in a mathematical pattern, following instructions, understanding patterns of letters and sounds, or understanding the consequences of actions is imperative across all areas of learning. There are many ways of developing sequencing skills. This book hopes to offer the early years practitioner a variety of practical, creative ways to help with the understanding, recognition and manipulation of sequences and to do so within the context of a variety of areas of learning.
Download or read book The Little Book of Print making written by Lynne Garner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Print Making is perfect for practitioners working on a tight budget. Full of inventive, inclusive ideas for creating printings and rubbings inside and out of the early years classroom, the activities in this book use objects that are low-cost and easy to obtain, and draw upon a wide range of Early Learning Goals including listening and attention; understanding; speaking; moving and handling; and exploring and using media and materials.
Download or read book The Little Book of Tuff Spot Activities written by Ruth Ludlow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use one of these simple trays for all sorts of activities from small world play, through maths and language, to cooking and messy play.
Download or read book The Little Book of Explorations written by Sally Featherstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of the Little Book of Investigations, this book goes one step further in size, scale and scope. It covers explorations indoors, outside and in the local community, from the water in the tap, the dust on the floor, the mud in the garden, to exploring connections, constructions and other early technological experiments. The natural world, minibeasts, weather, growth, change over time and making changes to materials and the environment are included in this easy to use book. The inventive activities will all also provide opportunities for children to sustain their thinking with other children and adults while using the skills of observation and experiment.
Download or read book The Little Book of Writing written by Sally Featherstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help early learners develop their writing skills through these fun and stimulating activites. Remember writing is not just for indoors - expand your writing environment both inside and out! These activites are easy to source and cost-effective for every Early Years setting.
Download or read book The Little Book of Fun on a Shoestring written by Elaine Massey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making your setting an exhilarating and stimulating environment isn't just about money: it's about innovation, attitude, surprise and the value of children's work and play. Linking throughout with the EYFS early learning goals, the ideas in this fully revised book are for things to use, things to make, things to do and things to display. Each activity is engaging and suitable for a range of abilities, and uses resources which either cost very little or, even better, are completely free!
Download or read book The Little Book of Mark Making written by Elaine Massey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey towards writing begins with children making purposeful marks. Children love expressing themselves in this way, and this fully revised Little Book will help early years practitioners and teachers to encourage mark making with a range of media, using mark makers and other implements. By engaging in these activities, children will develop fine motor control, hand-eye co-ordination and the movements needed to manage the writing process. Here are hundreds of ideas for mark making, each one photographed in a real setting.
Download or read book The Little Book of Maths Problem Solving written by Judith Dancer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Little Book offers easy-to-follow activities and opportunities for maths problem-solving, both indoors and out. The fun, multisensory ideas will trigger children's curiosity and enthusiasm as well as aiding their mathematical development.
Download or read book The Little Book of Dens written by Lynne Garner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children love to make dens. Adults encourage children to make dens because it supports imagination and many aspects of early learning. This new addition to the Little Books series contains 19 ideas for budget friendly themed dens. Included within each themed idea are suggestions for making and decorating your den, dressing-up and props, games and activities, links to the EYFS early learning goals and links to useful books, websites. There are over 80 titles in our 'Little Books' series - why not join our Little Book Club and discover the rest?
Download or read book The Little Book of Storybuilding written by Clare Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storybuilding is a cooperative story making technique - with a group of children the practitioner builds an original story e.g. using a range of objects to prompt the people, places and storyline. It is an ideal activity to develop speaking, listening and understanding skills in a fun and imaginative way. It is all about formulating and communicating ideas and as a supportive group task strengthens personal social and emotional development (PSED). Having the confidence to lead what is essentially an improvised activity can be daunting for practitioners without a full understanding of the approach. The Little Book of Storybuilding aims to make this useful and exciting technique accessible to all practitioners working in early years settings by explaining clearly, in a step by step manner, what Storybuilding is and how to begin using it in a typical setting. The wide range of activities includes making stories through play, drama, music and art both inside and outside the classroom.
