Positive Attributes — The Terrific Tens

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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Imaginative play and its power at different ages

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, [...]

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