The Little Book of Treasure Boxes: Collections for Exploration and Investigation (Little Books) - Softcover

Linda Thornton; Pat Brunton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905019491 ISBN 13: 9781905019496

Publisher: Featherstone, 2006

Synopsis

A Treasurebox is a collection of themed resources carefully chosen to engage children's attention, encourage their curiosity, and spark their imagination. Treasureboxes are designed to provide starting points for young children's investigation and exploration of the world around them, building on their own ideas and understanding. The ideas in the Little Book of Treasureboxes can be used with children in the Foundation Stage, but are also useful for trasition into Key Stage 1.

About this title

About the Authors

Linda Thornton has over thirty years experience in education as a teacher, headteacher, adviser and lead officer for early years. She is passionate about developing children’s thinking and learning, valuing creative learning environments and encouraging educators to think about the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ in their approach to teaching. Linda is a director of alc associates and currently provides consultancy and training for local authorities across the UK. She is the author of several Little Books, of ‘Understanding the Reggio Approach’, ‘Bringing the Reggio Approach to your early years practice’, ‘Taking the Lead’ and ‘Science Matters’.

Pat Brunton’s background as a research scientist has led to her interest in the idea of babies and young children as researchers, and to recognising the value of involving families in their children’s learning through science and technology. She has extensive experience of the early years field and provides training for a wide variety of audiences including school governors, teachers, early years and childcare practitioners and children’s centre professionals. Pat is the author of a range of early years science publications and Little Books, of ‘Understanding the Reggio Approach’, ‘Bringing the Reggio Approach to your early years practice,’ ‘Science Matters’ and ‘Taking the Lead’ and a director of alc associates.

Edition details

• Publisher: Featherstone
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905019491
• ISBN 13: 9781905019496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72