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Using light and dark as a medium for discovery and learning is well established in settings. Nicole Weinstein suggests resources that will maximise opportunities to explore and investigate.
Providing babies and toddlers with a variety of textures and other sensory resources lets them make the most of their natural tendency to explore. Nicole Weinstein gives some pointers.
Singing belongs in every nursery, says Community Playthings' new resource, What Happens in the Baby Room? Supporting under-2s practitioners
Reinforce children's dawning sense of time with ideas to organise their day and reflect on their lives, with activities and resources suggested by Diana Lawton.
Use an enjoyable story book to complement experiences that children have with resources found in the real world around them, following suggestions from Helen Bromley.
There is an abundance of useful resources to help children understand their physical differences and similarities. Nicole Weinstein selects a few that should stimulate discussion in the setting.
Working with textiles is both educational and playful. Nicole Weinstein offers some useful tips
The children are free to roam from shelter to shelter while enjoying the outdoors at England’s first ‘open air’ nursery, situated in south east London. Nicole Weinstein reports
The transportation schema allows practitioners to witness the advance of learning. Nicole Weinstein shares her advice on supporting it.
In the first part of a new series on Understanding the World, Nicole Weinstein looks at how to get up close with insects and other small animals from bees to worms in the nursery environment