Part 2 of the Interview with links, tips and advice on home education with Kelly Ireland of wearehere-kellyi.blogspot.com. Kelly Ireland has four children ranging from 2 years to 9 years old. She moved to Scotland and back to England after six years. In the nearly ten years she has been a mother she has worked full time, part time and… View Post
There are many opportunities to study about important people during the year. Often the ones that the children remember are the ones that have a link to them. So we need to find a link from the person to the child. Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated in January. In some parts of the world the third Monday in January… View Post
This is a guest post co-written by Emily Patterson and Kathleen Thomas. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Traditionally a second language is taught beginning in middle school, or even high school. However research has shown that this teaching can begin at their child care facilities or at home at a young… View Post
Learn the ins and outs of Home Education with our guest today! Kelly Ireland has four children ranging from 2 years to 9 years old. She moved to Scotland and back to England after six years. In the nearly ten years she has been a mother she has worked full time, part time and now not at all! All of … View Post
You can have amazing conversations when you’re doing something as mundane as hole punching scrap paper! This play activity is great to encourage communication and concentration. The MO was very excited to try out the hole punch. We had both the one punch and the two punch. The two punch was much easier to use because of the lever. The… View Post
How are you getting on with your New Year resolutions?Try these 11 resolutions to start you thinking about play in 2011. 1. Stop and think do they really need that new toy or gadget? Marketing and peer pressure aside how will it really benefit my child? Sometimes they will and sometimes it won’t. Photo credit 2. Stop and play with… View Post
When you’re excited about something you share right? There are lots of friends online who tweet your blog posts, share on Facebook and tell their friends. It’s how we find new and exciting blogs to help us with our play journey, through Indexes and podcasts. I was inspired by this post about giving back to bloggers to share my top… View Post
Bumper year of play in 2010! January is the traditional time to look back and look forward. Here on Raising Playful Tots we look back at archived shows and get a taster of the amazing guests. There are so many ways we can play in 2011 and I hope this review gives you some hope, direction, makes you nod your… View Post
Great big thank you to all of you new and those that have been around since 2007. Thank you for all the comments, email messages and Tweets about play. Here are the top 10 posts, after checking my statistics of posts that you loved to visit during 2010. Top 10 posts you loved in 2010 DIY Toy money Sensory play-… View Post
This year has been another busy year of play. Has it been for you? If you are new here welcome and here’s a chance to explore some of my favourite play ideas and activities we’ve had this year. We don’t record all our play moments and activities.But we use this space to journal our play activities using mostly things you… View Post
Christmas has come and gone but most likely you have a huge pile of wrapping paper to recycle. Dig them out and start a tradition. 5 ways to reuse Christmas wrapping paper
The popular song at Christmas is the 12 day of Christmas .From what I understand, the song was said as a round during celebrations after Christmas. Each person had to remember to add a new verse and remember what came before. If you forgot you had to do a forfeit. Sounds like a fun game! During the long days of… View Post
