For Your Binder

Twelve important points that would still be relevant even if the copyright date was 1800! #play #teaching #learning #DAP

Published in Pediatrics in June 2022 this link will bring you to the abstract which, although not the full paper,  provides enough data to remind us that young children are still not moving around enough. #play #movement #outside #recess #DAP #environment

A current and concise overview - especially if the concept of a neuromyth is new to you! #teaching #learning

This is the one that started it all! This handout is not only full of art, science & sensory recipes and activity ideas, it's got the words to tell the wolves for you too!  You know, the folks who barge in and want to know what everyone is learning and what standard you are meeting!! #handouts #play #sensory #science #DAP #art #teaching

Need more ideas? Lisa has 3 other activity focused books! 

Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

Rae shares with us the three things she's been hearing all across the country in regard to children and their development. Sadly, they probably won't surprise you.  #play #DAP #movement 

Here is the full text of the essay Tolkein presented (in an abbreviated form) in 1938 at St. Andrews, Scotland.  A couple of my favorite quotes: "If fairy story as a kind is worth reading at all it is worthy to be written for and ready by adults."  And, "It may be better for them (children) to read some things, especially fairy stories, that are beyond their measure rather than short of it. Their books like their clothes should allow for growth, and their books at any rate should encourage it." #books #stories #fairytales #reading 

Jung tells us that everyone has a Shadow self. But the less we look at it, the stronger it grows until it can "become a threat to our soul". This is one of those amazing articles you find when you are going down a rabbit hole from a previous article and someone mentioned this and then someone mentioned that and before you know it, it's Wednesday morning. I am not sure what my original search was that led me to it, but it might've been when I was investigating "scary stories" or something like that. #fairytales #KidLit #books #stories #myth

In these secret places, children develop and control environments of their own and enjoy freedom from the rules of the adult world. #dens #forts #outside #environments #play #parenting #teaching #learning

In this study you will read how IMPERATIVE it is that preschool (and all) teachers have practice in reading what they might call "risky" texts, otherwise, they won't read them to the kids. Preservice and early-in-their-career teachers need practice, feedback and opportunities for reflection and discussion before we can assume they will be comfortable in reading these books to young children. 

#books #stories #KidLit #diversity #LGBTQ 

What happens when you "add" a grade without considering the training of the folks who might end up teaching it? Or supervising it?  #teaching #learning 

Extreme safety concerns and risk minimization strategies are eroding children's opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risk taking. #DAP #teaching #risk #play #outside

Play and exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time - time to do whatever one wants to do, without pressure, judgment, or intrusion from authority figures.  #play #teaching #learning #mixedages