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This topics enables each child to relate their own unique experiences, and offers insights for practitioners.
Observe, then give your book corner a makeover, advises Michael Jones.
WINNER: Coton Green Pre-school Nursery, Tamworth, Staffs
Encouraging children to use their bodies in any way they want stimulates their physical and brain development and has a noticeable beneficial effect on behaviour, writes Annette Rawstrone
Early years practitioners are themselves part of the provision in any setting. Anne O'Connor outlines their role in and responsibility in promoting learning.
It doesn't require a large budget, just plenty of imagination and some careful forethought about how it's going to be used, to kit out your setting with a sensory room, as Annette Rawstrone explains.
If boys use the home corner less than girls, it may be wise to broaden your resources, says Anne O'Connor.
When deciding which resources to buy for shopping role play, choose products that children will instantly recognise, says Nicole Weinstein.
Create polar landscapes to help children learn about the people and animals that inhabit them, and to provide opportunities for role play, suggests Nicole Weinstein.
Teddy bears have a unique role in children's lives and are an invaluable developmental resource. Nicole Weinstein goes on the hunt.