June 2009

Toddler Library Time: Can You Help?

June 30, 2009

Immy and I head to the library at least once a fortnight, often joining in for the storytime which they host for prior-to-school aged children. She loves the library, it’s a big, open, quiet space with lots of shelves filled with books…and she loves books. Maybe a little too much, as I spend much of [...]

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Ingredients for a Child Friendly Community

June 28, 2009

Following the ‘It Takes A Village‘ post I got to thinking, what are the necessary ingredients for creating a child-friendly community? A few initial ideas… Attitudes – as a society of people with children and without we all need to demonstrate… Compassion When you next see a toddler having a tantrum in a public place, [...]

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A Big Box of Potential

June 27, 2009

My first ever sewing machine. Where will I begin? Any ideas? emgcyvstxz

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It takes a village…

June 27, 2009

Mmm… smells good Images from our visit to the local Farmers Market Is this parsnip? Daddy loves parsnip (photo taken seconds before Immy takes a big bite off the end of one raw parsnip!) Enjoying an orange slice which she coerced a friendly stallholder into giving her Mmmm.. yummy organic bacon fresh from the BBQ [...]

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Beef + Swede = Trees

June 26, 2009

Immy had a lovely surprise last night when her Aunties Beef and Swede arrived with a big orange bag of … TREE BLOCKS (You might remember I posted about them here). Immy had a lovely time unpacking the big bag of blocks and building with Beef and Swedish. As well as building, she banged them [...]

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What to do on a rainy day…

June 24, 2009

Jump in puddles… We actually waited for a break in the grey, rainy morning before we quickly popped on our boots and headed out into the cold. Immy had a great time jumping and splashing in puddles. The question of what to do on a rainy day when you know that both you and the [...]

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We Are Reading…

June 23, 2009

The Lost Art of Childhood: How to do things families have forgottenby Sarah Bryden-Brown I love this book. I am actually in trouble with our local library because I keep renewing it and I am way over my number of allowed renewals – I guess they imagine someone else might like to have a look! [...]

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Is Your Teacher a Pirate? – Understanding Emergent Curriculum

June 22, 2009

I love this photo of one the marvellous educators I worked with recently. The larger photo shows her surrounded by a mob of children in and around a plastic sandpit which they have transformed into a pirate ship. As you can see she happily loses herself in the play with the children. They are after [...]

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