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Month: February 2020

Supporting Young Children’s Creative Play in the Outdoors

Our Reception program (3, 4 & 5 year olds) is play-based and is heavily influenced by inquiry and constructivist learning philosophies. We use the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme as our curricular framework.

Both indoors and outdoors, we provide the children with uninterrupted blocks of time, up to 1.5 hours, to play.… Continue reading

Reading in the Rain

I liked the alliteration of that title. However, if you are going to read books to your students in the rain, I suggest you have a covered area. It’s hard to read dripping, ripping soggy pages.

This flexible learning space is used for read-aloud stories, doing crafts and woodwork, group discussions, small world play, and simply resting on sunny or rainy days.
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