Creative block play a comprehensive guide to learning through building

Blocks are a timeless toy. They never stop challenging, stimulating, and engaging young children. Open ended and play based, blocks are essential to every child's creative, social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. In addition, they nurture in young children important 21st-century...

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Main Author: Hansel, Rosanne Regan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, [2017]
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: Blocks are a timeless toy. They never stop challenging, stimulating, and engaging young children. Open ended and play based, blocks are essential to every child's creative, social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. In addition, they nurture in young children important 21st-century skills such as initiative, persistence, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development.
Physical Description: xv, 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
ISBN: 9781605544458
1605544450
Author Notes: Rosanne Regan Hansel has been both a teacher and administrator for a variety of early childhood programs. She was also the Early Childhood Specialist for the Math Science Partnership at Rutgers University and currently serves as Education Program Development Specialist for the Department of Education. Ms. Hansel received her MS Ed in Early Childhood Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.