Denan's taniwha story

Up and over

Mason and Denan develop hand eye coordination ... getting ready for writing

Literacy

Literacy requires knowledge of the many purposes of reading and writing. There are many different routes children take to literacy. Children arrive with great variations. 10 - 20% of children will experience difficulties with literacy through their school years. Young Learners: Children's interests, intelligence and play. Margaret Brown.

Mason's book

The thief cat

The thief cat on PhotoPeach

Building directional language

"Young children acquire simultaneous command of multiple directional concepts through interacting with their world and hearing words to describe it." Gill Connell & Cheryl McCarthy (2014) P 170 A Moving Child is a Learning Child

Writing in Chinese

Writing in Chinese, experiencing a different way to write on PhotoPeach

Cool quotes

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent read them more fairy tales." Albert Einstein. "Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." Birmingham Early Years Childcare (2008). "While we teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about." Chinese Proverb "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein "Please excuse the mess, the children are making memories." "no matter how big and bad you are ... when a two year old hands you the phone , you answer it."