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A story book I absolutely love to share with preschoolers is Old Hat New Hat by Stan Berenstain.  As sensory learners, they love the feel of the small board book version as it fits ‘just right’ into their little hands. The vocabulary is so accessible that they can quickly learn the descriptive words for all […]

I love children’s stories that lend themselves to multiple ways for the children to engage with the story such as sensory play, whole body movements, pretend play, art activities, and more. I have especially enjoyed The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas to help children gain a gradual understanding of emotions. Each emotion is beautifully represented […]

I learned so much from reading book Margot Sunderland’s book Using Storytelling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children (2000 published by Routledge). She explains that when it comes to feelings and emotions, children’s natural language is that of metaphors, stories, and imagery rather than words. She explains that when children can identity with the feelings […]

Bugs are such a fun topic that little ones just love and I always enjoy this theme alongside children as well.  A set of plastic bugs is a really great resource to have in a classroom and can be incorporated into endless learning and play activities including sorting, matching, finding, describing and guessing, feeling and […]

I love emergent curriculum opportunities that present themselves during outdoor play, which provides such a rich context for learning social skills such as turn-taking, problem solving, negotiating, joining a game and practicing being inclusive. Sharing and taking-turns can present a challenge for a preschooler who may not yet have the language or social skills to […]

A quiet time to be calm, relax is very important for young children. Their days are so busy and full, having time to be mindful, relax, breathe, and slow down is very important to helping them refocus and not feel overstimulated or overwhelmed. Having this as part of the daily routine in a quiet corner […]

Time for free play is such an important part of young children’s development. Multiple learning opportunities present themselves spontaneously in the course of free play, which can be used to extend children’s learning, especially when children have time to develop their play themes. A great resource for outdoor play are giant linking plastic building blocks, […]

Long rolls of white paper with minimal outlines for support are a great resource to inspire creativity in children. This is an idea I got from a colleague of mine, and my young pupils absolutely loved it. The entire lower part of my classroom walls literally became my pupil’s canvas for the whole school year.  […]

In the Dinosaurs’ Ladybug Car story, I included dealing with the emotion of disappointment to help children reading this story understand that this is a way that they can sometimes feel about things when something they would really like to do isn’t possible immeadiately, or they are faced with having to wait, share, or take […]

My husband, Sean Roys, helped to me with the narration of this story children’s story. Our first ever story narration project was when our oldest son and daughter were aged 2-5. Between  the two of them, they had a handful of favourite stories which they repeatedly asked us to read to them at bedtime. We […]