Guest Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 Does anyone use floor books to stimulate child initiated learning? Would be interested to know how it is going if you do. Thanks
AnonyMouse_3735 Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 (edited) Try this thread.. it is from a while ago but may help.. Floor Books there may also be others if you try a search.. edit to say unfortunately the links in the thread don't work but there is a bit of info there Edited October 6, 2012 by Inge
Guest Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 Thank you for that Inge it has helped a lot, we have started to use floor books and this has really helped.
Guest sn0wdr0p Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 Wow, had a look at this link and my brain is buzzing. Going out soon to buy some scrapbooks. What great ideas and examples.
AnonyMouse_2157 Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 Each of our four family groups has a floorbook - they have a planning meeting once a week and the children write what they wish to do in the creative area for the following week. Their ideas and interests are collated and provision is made for these experiences. SOme children decide that they don't want to do what they had planned for and others come along to join in anyway. We had floorbook training from Clare at Mindstretchers a few years ago. The floorbook is great but due to how our nursery is organised over sessions we have decided that we won't go down the project use but as a way of collating ideas for experiences the children want to happen. Their planning meeting is a lovely chance for children to talk and plan ahead as well as being an excellent vehicle to practice writing for a purpose. It is interesting to look back at the first entries and the last at the end of the summer to see this progress. To stimulate ideas for the creative area we use a digital photo frame to show photos of the activities that could be done e.g. wire work, clay, paint, charcoals, collage, construction with natural materials etc.
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