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Trip, trap
Find some new ways round an old folk tale with activities that involve counting, making rhythms, using tools, learning about bridges and solving problems, as suggested by Lena Engel This is a good t...
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Some food for thought in your professional career Childminding. By Sheila Riddall-Leech. (Heinemann, £13.99, 01865 888080). Reviewed by Helen Evans, childminding tutor
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Sing and Sign - video of nursery rhymes and action songs. Sasha Felix. (£12.99, www.singandsign.com, 01273 550587) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant
In good faith
Do we really respect the religions we teach children about, or are we just shopping for souvenirs? Stephen Gregg and Sue Ranson pose difficult questions We have come a long way since the time when m...
Speaking our language
What do children gain from going to a nursery where they're taught in another language that comes from the British Isles? Jackie Cosh listens to the arguments Earlier this year the Government set ou...
Action space
Movement promotes neurological development but our society smiles upon 'sitting still'. An extract from Hopping Home Backwards describes one way round the problem The fact that very few early years ...
The way to a man's job
By Ian Maxwell, deputy director of One Parent Families Scotland Scottish education minister Cathy Jamieson recently urged men to opt for childcare careers in a keynote speech to the 'When Men Become...
Fun, but just a story like any other
Well said, Jennie Lindon! (Ask the expert, 28 November). When our children (now aged 22 and 19) were very young, my husband and I decided that they should know from the start that Father Christmas i...
Blame the parents
I read the feature about giving Santa the sack ('The real thing?', 12 December) with great interest. I am a Montessori teacher in a multireligious/multicultural school and I think we put too much em...
Gifted actor
I'll always remember the three toddlers who, as the three kings in our nursery school's Nativity play, presented their gifts to baby Jesus. The first king almost ran up to the crib and shouted, 'I'v...
