Tag: Early years
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Crochet and the Characteristics of Effective Learning
Happy New Year to you all. Did you make any new year’s resolutions? I tend not to, but I have been inspired to try to learn a new skill: crocheting. Some of you will have seen the brilliant Grab a Granny Square project started by the fabulous Ruth Swailes on Twitter. A simple idea to…
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Back to My Roots
Recently I spent a day in a local nursery; they had generously invited me in and I jumped at the chance. Here’s what I did – stomped like dinosaurs, shared stories, tried to make the loudest roar, hand-clapping, jumped off of surfaces, slid down slides, built a motorbike, created towers with tyres, climbed in and…
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Working with Children Learning English as an Additional Language (EAL)
My first experience of working with a child learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) was a lively, feisty 3 year old with an Italian family; I adored working with her and loved observing her emerging language skills. There were frequent moments, when out of frustration she’d punctuate an English sentence with an Italian word…