by kindlinglily | Aug 1, 2011 | Creative Moments
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato I recently spent a wonderful 24hrs with my friend and her daughter, my goddaughter R. Now aged six, this is a child I have known since before she was born, we...
by kindlinglily | Apr 18, 2011 | Creative Moments, Forest School
I’m slowly getting through the backlog of jobs to do brought on by having a wonderfully wildly busy six weeks. I just worked out that I’ve had six weeks where I was in the woods or working outdoors with children or training adults every weekday except one,...
by kindlinglily | Feb 4, 2011 | Theory and Ideas
Last night a group of newly qualified reception teachers came to the Foundation Stage Unit where I am doing some work with three to five year-olds. The lead teacher was talking about the ethos of the setting where I work and how the planning is built around the...
by kindlinglily | Dec 29, 2010 | Theory and Ideas
Even in that frantic run up to Christmas the Foundation stage children (aged three to five) who had been working on the treehouse were reflective of their experiences. The tree house building which has been recorded here and here ground to a halt when we found we had...
by kindlinglily | Dec 2, 2010 | Forest School
Snow that is covering lots of the UK at the moment and when I’ve been out and about I can’t help keeping my nose to the ground looking for tracks. Walking up on the moors on Sunday (before it got so deep) we noticed a regular little round regular mark,...
