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Sam (age 7) holding his 'Swiss Family Robinson' game Imaginative recreation is an essential part of learning. By re-creation I mean ...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:34 AM

  A well -received present . T he 'Lord of the Rings' L ego Imaginative recreation is an essential part of learning, probably even l...

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Above: Imaginative creation with mixed media Once giftedness was defined primarily in terms of intellectual skills and knowledge that could...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:44 PM

As I've written before on this blog, story and literature have great power to teach, enrich and transform us (see here & here ). St...

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Creative water play I am asked constantly by parents of preschool children should they be doing various things. Parents ask, should I: ...

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I've written many times on this blog about the power of storytelling as a means to stimulate children's language, literacy, learning...

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Boys in the 1950s (Courtesy 'Chapel Hill Memories') When I was a child my weekly timetable involved little more than 5 elements: cho...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:40 AM

Echoes of the past in the objects of our lives Have you ever tried to clear out your shed or attic and found that a job that was to be a 2-3...

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