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I was visiting a preschool, and spending time with the children outside on the playground. An orange butterfly fluttered by, then...

As I’m getting my room ready for the first days of school, my first thought is, “How will the children feel when they enter my classroom?”...

A frequent topic on discussion boards is for someone to post a picture of an interesting loose part or material they’ve found and s...

It’s sometimes hard to know when to talk to a child who is deeply engaged in an activity, and it’s hard to know what to say. We’ve been tr...

Teaching children “self-control” or “self-regulation” skills are often top on teacher’s lists. It’s often one of the most challenging gr...

Early  childhood education can sometimes get caught between two extremes. On one side there are teachers armed with lists of standard...

I was thinking about the frequent questions I see from teachers asking what loose parts they could use for one theme or another. My percep...

“It’s not your turn.” “Stay in your own space.” “Stop taking friend’s toys.” “You have to share.” So much of teacher’s time in pre...

Over the past few weeks I’ve been baking a lot of cookies. I’ve been adjusting recipes, trying to figure out how little changes in the ingre...

“Children learn through play.” “Play is children’s work.”   When we say “children learn through play”, we’re recognizing and acknow...