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Inspiring Play Spaces

Creating open-ended play spaces in early childhood settings

Inspiring Play Spaces is designed to encourage educators to create open-ended play spaces that will provide opportunities for children to investigate, explore, discover, practise, try, fail, succeed, observe, imagine, dream, pretend, share, listen and more, thus allowing them to develop a sense of who they are and an understanding of the world in which they live. It shows a variety of ways in which different spaces can be executed and set up and describes how these experiences support educators to meet the requirements of the EYLF and the NQS, respond to children's interests, and understand the benefits of play.

Ages: 0-5 | Pages: 96 | Code: TS0106 | ISBN: 9781921613739

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Susie Rosback

Susie is the owner operator of Holy Trinity Early Learning Centre in Kew, Victoria. She has completed a Master of Education, Diploma of Teaching Early Childhood and a Bachelor of Education Early Childhood and earned the "exemplary" teacher classification with VETASSESS. She has also won the NEiTA ASG Inspirational Teachers State and Territory Award and been nominated for the national award. Susie taught kindergarten for 20 years, lectured at Deakin University, presented at conferences and co-authored five books. Through her consulting business, she has supported the wider community in achieving exceeding in the NQS.

Susie specialises in art and children’s artistic development. As owner operator of her own service, Susie is now enjoying the executive role of early learning and supporting her team to create an early learning service with a difference in Melbourne.

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Natalie Coulson

Natalie has been an early childhood educator for more many years. After completing her Certificate III in children's services, she travelled to the UK where she worked in a kindergarten and ran an English as a Second Language course for the pre-prep groups. On her return, she began working at St Paul's Kindergarten while also studying her Diploma in Early Childhood. Her passion for leading programs that focus on sensory activities and creating imaginary play spaces meant that she jumped at the opportunity to coauthor her first book 'Inspiring Play Spaces'.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1.\tWhy we do what we do1
2.\tInspiring resources5
3.\tArtistic development9
4.\tManipulative play experiences11
5.\tDrawing21
6.\tDramatic play31
7.\tIndividual play spaces43
8.\tPlay spaces for two or more52
9.\tConstruction56
10.\tPainting62
11.\tPasting70
12.\tReading areas75
13.\tCooking79
14.\tSand pit and digging patches83
15.\tSensory experiences88
References and further reading94

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