Messy Art: The Brain Building Power of Sensory Play
This blog post was written by Anna Reyner, MA, ATR, LMFT, author of Trauma Informed Art Activities for Early Childhood. Messy Art activities are one…
Category: Early Years
The Mindful Magician & Navigating Difficult Emotions
The Mindful Magician by Lauren Brukner releases on April 21, 2023. Can you briefly outline your history? How has this background influenced what you write…
Have fun, connect with others, and learn crucial social skills
Group Activities for Social Emotional Learning Using Sketch Comedy and Improv Games Post Pandemic: We reconnected, but how can we feel “connected”? Isolation was so…
Teaching Empathy and Inclusivity with Interactive Stories
The author of THE GIANT FROM NOWHERE, Frances Dickens worked for 19 years as a primary school teacher, specialising in English as a second language and…
Supporting the Development of Speech, Language and Communication in the Early Years
A book for the army of talented Early Years Practitioners – without whom children, families and (speech and language) therapists would be infinitely poorer. There…
Learning How to Be Angry
How to Be Angry publishes on March 21, 2022. Can you briefly outline your history? How has this background influenced what you write about? For…
My Special Alphabet Book: a new way to improve early literacy
Child psychologists, Helen Muter & Helen Likierman introduce their new book which helps children who might find reading and language skills more difficult than their…
Why schools need to talk about staff mental health, now.
Amy Sayer is the author of Supporting Staff Mental Health in Your School and is a teacher at Chichester High School and Head of Philosophy…
Books to help ease the transition back to school
Back to school – helping children feel comfortable with the transition We may not yet be able to gauge the full impact the lockdown has…
Rachel Simon and The Every Body Book
The Every Body Book by Rachel Simon provides an inclusive guide to sex education. Can you briefly outline your background? I’m a psychotherapist and sexuality…