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As a new school year starts, I'm reposting one of my favorites, that is at the core of my teaching philosophy. It's not what the ma...

I teach not far from where I grew up: a city neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. When I read curriculum ideas and blogs about o...

I first introduced loose parts play into my three-year-old classroom five years ago. There were already loose parts in my classroom, but no...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about ways to introduce loose parts in the classroom  with the idea that intentional planning ...

In my last post , I talked about the challenges teachers can fact when they first start searching for ways to introduce loose parts in thei...

One of my favorite types of materials are “loose parts” – open ended materials that can be used and manipulated in different ways, prov...

I’ve experimented before with “a table in the sandtable”   to provide children with a work area to place and arrange materials. I’ve also c...