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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...

She pulled the large blocks off the shelf, one by one, dropping them randomly into a pile on the floor. After the first five or six bl...

I see lots of posts on education discussion groups asking “Where do you keep your loose parts?” Or “What does your loose parts area ...