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Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Silk painting

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

| Nursery World

Staff at Rainbow Nursery, Middlestone Moor, provide continuing opportunities for the children in the Rainbow Room to explore a wide range of creative media, both indoors and outdoors.

Learning & Development: Froebel - Special songs

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Singing has a long tradition in nurseries, thanks largely to the work of Friedrich Froebel, and the practice is intimate and complex, explain Sacha Powell, Kathy Goouch and Louie Werth

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... movement and music

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

| Nursery World

The foundation for learning is the physical readiness nurtured by carers in the years before a child starts school, writes Sally Goddard Blythe.

Art in the Early Years: Part 2 - The creative learning environment

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

| Nursery World

The essential provision for a creative art environment takes account of the space and materials made available and the display of children's finished works.

All about the role of ... Music practitioner

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

A three-year project, funded by Youth Music, studied the effect of music-making on more than 400 under-fives attending early years settings.

Art in the Early Years: Part 4: Painting

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

| Nursery World

Painting offers young children a world of opportunities for experimentation and expression, so early years settings should equip them with ample materials and varied techniques.

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… dots

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Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

Story The Dot has inspired children in Burnley to become little artists, writes Annette Rawstrone

Learning & Development: Baking - Aprons on!

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Rewards across all areas of learning will be the result when you get young children together in a baking activity, says Judit Horvath.

Learning & development dance: Feel the beat

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

| Nursery World

Dance is the universal language being used at one school to help young children interact as a group and learn something they're proud to show off at home, as Annette Rawstrone hears.

Learning & Development: Finger Rhymes - Thumbs up!

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Picking up rhymes supported by physical actions seems to be innate in children. But how adults mediate is important for later literacy development, says Opal Dunn

Nursery Equipment: Dens - My space

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

Whether they are fashioned from hedgerows or built for purpose from tents and playhouses, dens should be personal retreats for children and places that inspire their imagination and learning, says Diana Lawton.

Learning & Development: Music: Part 6 - Pitch in!

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Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Mathematical development and music go hand in hand, with the latter enabling us to take pleasure in exploring the abstract subject, says Linda Pound

EYFS Best Practice - All about... transient art

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Monday, November 2, 2015

| Nursery World

There are benefits to embracing a creativity focused on process rather than result. Nicole Weinstein offers a guide

Art in the Early Years - Part 8: 3D (Three Dimensional)

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A wide range of common EYFS experiences, from block play to clay to recycled materials, can offer children the chance to explore working creatively in three dimensions.

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… art

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Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

One setting took children’s artwork to another level by exhibiting it at a major gallery, discovers Annette Rawstrone

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Contrasts, and cause and effect, are just some of the concepts within the learning to be found in an investigation of 'wet' and 'dry' by Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.