Posted by Chip on July 16, 2009
Double-digit kids, these tens can take on anything and love every minute of it (well, almost). If you sense my unbridled enthusiasm for this age, you’re not off the mark. It didn’t take me long as a teacher to latch onto the understanding that if you want to teach in “middle childhood,” there is no [...]
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Tags: bellasara.com, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, Developmental Needs, fifth grade, Positive Attributes, Rick Riordan, ten-year-olds |
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Posted by Chip on April 22, 2009
After my own reading, observing, and thinking so much about the power of imaginative play in children’s development of self-regulation and the scaffolding of learning in early educational settings, I’ve inevitably been paying closer attention to Lily (now 4.7) and Isaiah (now 9.10) at play on the home front. Lily never tires of pretending. Recently, [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Importance of Play |
Tags: developmental changes, imaginative play, Indian in the Cupboard, Lynn Reid Banks, Olympians, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan |
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