KIDS story book - great for behavioural awareness & activity planning

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Great book - KIDS by Catherine and Laurence Anholt

Excellent for starting off new routines or approach to staff meetings exploring child development, play, personality, individuality and behaviour.

It's a rhyming story book that marginally steryotypes reactions and scenarios, a little tongue in cheek, it is a brilliant read.




The Author & illustrators own website is equally excellent .. more so because even adults are allowed that little extra leeway when it comes to being asked not to press the button

www.anholt.co.uk

The first links are in association with our amazon affiliate account - ie. a small percentage of any sales generated through the link goes to the running of Silkysteps ... but, on the Anholt website you can purchase unaffiliated copies of the book, signed, & request a personalised message

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Ideas for play: make notes of the game activities and resources that are suggested in the book's illustrations.
Ideas for raising awareness of children's development - guess the age or state an expected age when adults feel children may achieve and enjoy participating in given activities.
Ideas for behaviour - dealing with conflict, how can it be done ..

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Excerpt:

What are kids like
Kids are silly, kids are funny
Kids have noses that are runny

What do kids make
houses with blankets
Mountains on stairs
Seas out of carpets
Trains out of chairs

What do kids dream of
A ladder to the moon
A candy tree in bloom
Riding a flying fish
having anything they wish

For more information:
Stages of play
Types of play
Vicarious learning:
------1. Modelling good behaviour - the effect this has for watchers
Watching patience, respect, understanding, ability to share, ability to give and the ability to take.
------2. The eliciting effect - physical participation happens, may be associated to what was witnessed but is different - eg: Adult/children playing dress up with capes prompts a watcher to visit the sink area, avoiding the dressup area intentionally or unintentionally, picks up a teatowel, wraps it around shoulders or places it on the floor and plays/sits/stands on or by it - this could also be a sheet of paper, a bag, a cushion tossed ..
------3. Disinhibitory participation - child/adult loses inhibitions, joins in freely, willingly, openly having seen just how ok it is to do so ...
------4. Inhibitory effect - observer refrains from joining in having seen something negative eg: criticism, correction, watcher or other child frowned at, unwanted messiness, unwanted levels of interaction necessary - expected or unexpected.

And the empowering blog talents from Teacher Tom


Have fun with your children's play and planning awareness of it ..