Enabling Environments: Collections - Top drawer!
Most children like to draw. Nicole Weinsteinfinds out how practitioners can best support young...
Collections
This series aims to help practitioners be more responsive to children's interests and reflect on how thoughtful resourcing can truly broaden and progress their learning. It sets out what to include in a core collection for everyday use.
Enabling Environments: Collections - Broad strokes
Allowing children to explore media and materials enables important learning, but how can...
Enabling Environments: Collections - All in hand
How can settings support the development of small hand movements? Nicole Weinstein advises.
Enabling Environments: Collections - Play it by ear
How can practitioners help children develop good listening skills? Nicole Weinstein offers some...
Enabling Environments Collections: Sense of place
Use first-hand experiences and location resources for learning about environments, says Nicole...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Make it count
Well-chosen activities, heuristic play resources and a number-rich environment can help...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Me do it!
Self-care is an essential life skill, but it can also help children grow in confidence. Nicole...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Bear it!
Teddy bears have a unique role in children's lives and are an invaluable developmental resource....
Enabling Environments: Collections - At the wheel
Wheeled toys such as trikes, bikes and scooters aren't just good fun - they also provide...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Well away
Pack-away nurseries need be creative to make their settings work. Nicole Weinstein asks three how...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Follow the leader
The outdoors offers opportunities to get creative with role play. Nicole Weinstein suggests how...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Glorious mud
This natural material opens up opportunities for children to experiment and explore both real and...
Enabling Environments: Collections - On the loose
Loose parts resources, which can be found, recycled or bought, empower children's creativity and...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Please touch
Providing babies and toddlers with a variety of textures and other sensory resources lets them make...
Enabling Environments: Collections - By design
Design and technology sparks imagination and helps children begin to make sense of the world in...
Enabling Environments: Collections - A fine time
In the second of a two-part series on developing fine motor control, Nicole Weinstein looks at...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Fine by me!
This first in a two-part series looking at resources for developing children's fine motor control...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Take art
The quality of the tools provided for children to paint and draw is important. Nicole Weinstein...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Ready to go
There is an important balance to be struck between child-initiated and adult-chosen activities in a...
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