Creative block play
Subtitle: a comprehensive guide to learning through building
By: Rosanne Regan Hansel ; Foreword by Margie Carter
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781605544458
Subjects: Early childhood education; Block building (Children's activity)
Description: Blocks are a timeless toy. They never stop challenging, stimulating, and engaging young children. Open ended and play based, blocks are essential to every child's creative, social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. In addition, they nurture in young children important 21st-century skills such as initiative, persistence, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the benefits of block play; title: Preparing the environment for block play; title: Exploring possibilities through block play; title: Supporting children during block play; title: Guiding deeper engagement in block play.