KIDS story book - great for behavioural awareness & activity planning
 

:D 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 :D

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 :cheerful:

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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:





For more information:
Stages of play
Types of play
Vicarious learning:
------1. Modelling good behaviour - the effect this has for watchers :smile:
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 ..