Help the children get to grips with wooden objects and with paper in more project ideas from Jean Evans Activity 1
With school budgets getting close to breaking point, head teachers are resorting to desperate measures to keep their schools and nursery classes afloat. Nicole Weinstein reports
Adopting the dialogic approach to reading with a child will help parents, and practitioners, to advance the child's oral language. Joan Kiely explains the method and its importance.
Sally Schweizer (Rudolph Steiner Press, 12.95, ISBN 1 85584 124 X, www.rudolphsteinerpress.com). Reviewed by Sandy Green, early years consultant.
As Nursery World reaches the grand old age of 80, the early years education and childcare sector is at a crucial point in its development. The Ten-Year Strategy is rolling out, the Childcare Bill has...
Well-known children's cookery author Annabel Karmel MBE has advice on widening the range of food that children will eat
Everything connects as one child works out his fascination with lines, observed by the <B>Pen Green Centre</B> team in dialogue with Chris Athey
Now that they've seen the requirements of the new Code of Practice, early years providers around the country are doubting they can ever fulfil them. Catherine Gaunt investigates.
Observing the level of involvement that children show in their play can tell you much about their emotional well-being, says Anne O'Connor.