If You Need Tips, Tools and Activities Gathered For You...... If You are craving a Community To Support you made of other Parents and Educators as you learn and grow through play......... If You often say "which activity will help my child and I play and learn" with the least amount of struggle... If You need Help Creating Hands On Open Ended Learning opportunities at home... If You crave More Creativity and Engagement... If You wish for Goal Oriented activities put together for you to play and learn with no stress.... THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! Each week of the year has it's own focus and set of activities for practicing the skill for that week.
Through their earliest years of play, children develop a substantial body of skills and knowledge. The goal of this book is to bring children’s play and curriculum expectations together, so that children are engaged in learning that honours their existing knowledge, and to help build a strong literacy foundation. A perfect blend of theory and instruction, this timely book offers background, research, ideas, and strategies to create an exciting array of possibilities for using children’s play as an infinitely rewarding learning resource. It asks and answers fundamental questions about preparing young children for lifelong learning.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by your child's screen-time battles, meltdowns, or defiant behavior? Do emotions run high in your home, leaving you unsure how to respond? What Would Love Say Do Here? is your essential guide to transforming frustration into connection and fostering resilience in your child. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, attachment theory, and practical parenting strategies, this book offers a compassionate, research-based approach to understanding and managing your child’s challenging behavior. Focusing on your calm presence, empathy and mindful choices - you'll explore how the brain’s reward systems, emotional regulation, and mirror neurons shape their actions. You’ll discover simple yet effective ways to nurture emotional growth and resilience. Through real-life examples like 6-year-old Anna and her mother, Michelle, you’ll see how small changes, introspection into your own childhood and the use of practical strategies can lead to effective transformations in family dynamics. What would Love Say Do Here? will be your roadmap on the path to deeper connection with your child. It will provide the tools to: • Co-regulate with your child during emotional outbursts • Develop an attachment perspective to foster deeper connection and trust • Replace screen time with engaging activities that stimulate creativity and brain development • Build resilience through playful, structured routines This guide offers the support and insights you need to create a more peaceful, connected, and joyful home, nurturing a deeper bond and paving the way for your child’s emotional growth while creating a happier family life.
Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography to inspire safe loose parts play in your infant and toddler environments. Captivating classroom stories and proven science provide the context for how this style of play supports children's development and learning. This book is perect for Montessori and Reggio-inspired programs and educators.
Focusing on research-based, developmentally appropriate practices, this book shows teachers how to help young children reach standards through creative play activities that ignite their enthusiasm to learn.
Full-color pages detailing how to: *Crash parties, get initiated into a secret society, hack your grades, and graduate with honors *Keep your Sims' grades on track in all 11 majors *Secure your final degree and open up four new career paths *Details on the all-new young adult age, influence, and lifetime wants *Charts and tables covering objects and socials *Tours of all colleges and their student bodies *Covers the original Sims 2 plus the expansion!
From Workplace to Playspace is about visionary, courageous, innovative, and persistent organizations that challenge long-held preconceptions about the incompatibility of workplace and playspace. Each day organizations across industries and with wide-ranging missions are discovering that playspace is the space they can and must create every day at work if they are to think creatively, question old assumptions, respond effectively to the unexpected, and engage all to work at the top of their talent. Filled with case examples from such organizations as Learning Curve International, Google, Chicago Public Schools, Umpqua Bank, and Threadless, the author provides both the conceptual framework and the principles to guide practitioners to create playspace for innovating, learning and changing in their organizations.
