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How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Captain of the Ship
Dr. Sandra Duncan provides insights on letting children create and curate their own unique play and learning spaces at home and in school.
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Learning with Nature: Awaking a Sense of Wonder
Exploring nature is a surefire way to spark young children’s learning. Children inherently want to learn which is why they’re constantly asking questions. They’re full of wonder and curiosity. The natural world is an environment rich with possibilities for learning and can help children’s wonder and curiosity flourish. In nature the opportunities for new knowledge
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7 Ways to Create Invitations to Play through a Child’s Environment
“Want to play?”These are magical words to children. An invitation to play is welcoming, inclusive, and suggests that fun is about to happen. Children learn through play, creating and re-creating what they know and what they imagine. This is their language for understanding the world. Through play, children learn problem-solving skills and test out ideas in a safe way. They grow from these successes and occasional failures. Play nurtures children’s creativity, imagination, and their independence.
