Found 29490 results for "Enabling Environments: Making Spaces ...?type=Feature?year_based=2008?ArticleTypes/Name=Other?orderBy=Relevance?pageSize=15?Tags/Name=Practice|Management"
Play involving hands and feet can help develop observation and thinking skills beyond simple recognition of size, shape and pattern. Marianne Sargent suggests some ideas.
Creative 'jungle' play can help improve children's understanding of the world, says Nicole Weinstein.
Here are some ideas to show how a nursery can build up a wealth of resources to help children to learn, appreciate and have fun with the largest land animal, from Jean Evans.
Following her recent marriage, Nursery World senior reporter Nicole Curnow has changed her name to Nicole Weinstein. She can be contacted at nicole.weinstein@nurseryworld.co.uk.
Winner: Woodland House Nursery, Bristol
A 'monster' sighting at one nursery sparked a project looking at a range of themes.
The Forest Schools experience has brought many benefits to children at a setting in Scotland. AnnMarie Cunningham describes the process.
In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
Using these historic creatures to inspire games and activities can help to build curiousity and imagination, advises Marianne Sargent.
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...