Inspiring Spaces for Young Children
Inspiring Spaces for Young Children

Author: Jessica DeViney

Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876593172

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The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. "Inspiring Spaces for Young Children "invites teachers to enhance children's educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can learn and grow. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children's artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.

Inspiring Play Spaces
Inspiring Play Spaces

Author: Susie Rosback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 147291337X

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Written to meet the requirements of the EYFS, this book demonstrates a whole range of ways in which different spaces can be instigated and set up in response to children's interests. It is perfect for practitioners looking for new ways to present equipment and new ideas to create beautiful play spaces, which can be executed or set up in a variety of ways at little or no cost.

Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments
Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments

Author: Jessica DeViney

Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876593219

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An inspiring environment is essential for helping young children learn. The Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments (ROSIE) is an observation rating scale that challenges teachers to examine classrooms in a totally new way: with an eye for what is aesthetically beautiful and inspiring.

Caring Spaces, Learning Places
Caring Spaces, Learning Places

Author: James T. Greenman

Publisher: Ingram

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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"Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills. Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find best of current thinking about children's environments - 360 pages to challenge you, stimulate you, inspire you." - product description.

Loose Parts
Loose Parts

Author: Lisa Daly

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 160554275X

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Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning. The hundreds of inspiring photographs showcase an array of loose parts in real early childhood settings. And the overviews of concepts children can learn when using loose parts provide the foundation for incorporating loose parts into your teaching to enhance play and empower children. The possibilities are truly endless.

The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors

Author: Mary S. Rivkin

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9781928896999

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Children's outdoor play and experiences matter! New delights and opportunities for learning await each time children venture outdoors. This updated and expanded edition of The Great Outdoors will inspire teachers to make it possible for children to spend more time outdoors, have safe environments, and be free to learn through exploration. This book - Reviews why outdoor play matters for children, especially when it involves nature - Explores the historical and contemporary inspirations and foundation for nature education - Discusses ways to keep children safe outdoors, including minimizing sun exposure and other dangers - Highlights the importance of nature experiences for children's spiritual development - Explores the necessity and challenges of creating child-friendly cities and environments Each chapter ends with action items to improve children's access to safe, clean, and interesting places in your community and is packed with resource ideas for further exploration. The Great Outdoors will enable you take up the challenge to advocate for enticing outdoor spaces for children.

Art Workshop for Children
Art Workshop for Children

Author: Barbara Rucci

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1631593250

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Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials. As children work through these open-ended workshops, adults are guided on how to be facilitators who provide questions, encourage deep thinking, and help spark an excitement for discovery. Children explore basic materials and workshops that use minimal supplies, and then gradually add new materials to fill the art cabinets as well as new skills and more complex workshops. Most workshops are suitable to preschool-aged children, and each contains ideas for explorations and new twists to engage older or more experienced artists. Interspersed throughout are sidebar essays that introduce perspectives on mess-making, imperfection, the role of adult, collaborative art, and thoughts on the Reggio Emilia method, a self-guided teaching philosophy. These pieces underscore the value of art-making with children, and support the parent/teacher/care-giver on how to successfully lead, question, and navigate their children through the workshops to result in the fullest experiences.

Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition
Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition

Author: Deb Curtis

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1605543721

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The best-selling source of inspiration for early childhood professionals designing learning environments; updated with all new photographs and fresh content

Awakening Creativity
Awakening Creativity

Author: Lily Yeh

Publisher: New Village Press

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0981559379

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Engaging students in artmaking, Lily Yeh transforms a derelict Beijing factory into a vibrant beautiful school for migrant workers' children.

Through a Child's Eyes
Through a Child's Eyes

Author: Sandra Duncan

Publisher: Gryphon House Incorporated

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780876597965

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Classroom design is a crucial component of an effective learning environment. Through a Child's Eyes will help teachers develope learning areas that leverage childhood learning. Learn how to use the child's perspective to make the classroom a place of joy and possibility with the use of inviting materials, natural colors, intriguing loose parts, and unique sensory explorations.