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Outdoor Classroom Planning Guide 0
Over 50 pages of great ideas, real world examples,strategies, inspirations and tips for realizing an Outdoor Classroom. Broken out by different learning areas, this guide will help you create a new quality outdoor learning area or ready your existing space for STEM, literacy, creative arts, construction as well energetic play.
A Process Focussed Arts Centre: Furniture and Paint 0
Taking their inspiration from Reggio Emilia and other child directed early years curricula, many classrooms are modeling their creative arts learning areas around an atelier approach.
In this post we’ll offer some suggestions of furnishings and materials that may compliment a process focussed rather than a product focussed art centre.
- Bogdan Pospielovsky
- Mots clés: art community playthings furniture paint
Four Ways Puzzles can Invigorate an Early Years Classroom 0
Puzzles are more than just placing pieces in a frame. A puzzle’s engagement of fine motor skills helps develop mental dexterity and can be a great way to introduce curricular themes and learning areas, inspiring open ended play.
- Bogdan Pospielovsky
- Mots clés: community playthings play and learn puzzles and games STEM
Cots, Carts, Kids and Your Back 0
“We’ve been searching for cots like these for 3 years!”
From the perspective of a workplace health and safety expert, Community Playthings cots and carts for child care centres and full day kindergarten are unique. Not only protecting hygiene but reducing the back strain that significantly contributes to lost work hours.
- Bogdan Pospielovsky
- Mots clés: community playthings furniture
6 Tips for Starting Your Block Centre - for Any Age 0
Blocks can ignite STEM exploration not just in the early years. From juniors to teens, even adults -- just ask world famous star-architect Frank Gehry. Here are 6 tips for building your block learning area in a child care centre, classroom, parenting centre or before/after-school program.- Bogdan Pospielovsky
- Mots clés: blocks community playthings play and learn school age STEM toys
Lofts and Nursery Gyms: Transform Child Care Spaces 0
Lofts and Nursery Gyms don’t just add valuable floor space to your classroom, but add variety to your environment too for an extremely versatile upgrade that can transform your child care space.- Hadiya Gugsa
- Mots clés: community playthings lofts
