92. How to Know if Montessori Education is Right For Your Family

Take a peak into Montessori.

Barbara Issacs, Academic Director of Montessori centre international, ( MCI) She’s also the author of Bringing the Montessori Approach to your Early Years Practice and Understanding the Montessori Approach: Early Years Education in Practice. She’s been a proprietor of a Montessori Nursery, trainer of Montessori teachers as well as Senior Accreditation officer for the Montessori Accreditation and Evaluation Board talks to us today about Montessori education

LEARNING TOGETHER – WHAT MONTESSORI CAN OFFER YOUR FAMILY :: Find out more about Montessori

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• Recognising Montessori education
• Who would benefit from montessori educational philosophy
• Montessori after the Early Years
• Basic montessori resources for play
• Learn what we would see in a Montessori Early childhood classroom
• What makes a good montessori school
• Starter Montessori activities at home

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Emma of Mummymummymummymum.com: Guess who duplo game :: Voicemail from  Angeliquefelix.com

90. How do you divide your time between work that has to get done and playing with your child?

How do you divide your time between work that has to get done and playing with your child? Allie from NoTimeForFlashcards.com, Educator and creative crafter and Melitsa share their struggles,systems, solutions and stories about the age old question; are we doing enough ( or too much?)

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• Deciding how much time to spend crafting
• Dealing with the frustration of them refusing to do a brilliantly thought out activity
• Working out your day with play included
• Why we should plan some play
• How to give individual time when you have two chidlren
• The glory of quiet time
• Planning to be unstructured
• Having realistic expectations of length of play depends on their age/stage
• Stretching out an activity- getting the most from an activity
• Training and teaching what happens when you need to get things done.
• Scheduling the TV hours
• ebb and flow of the day

Give me Five minutes :: How easy is it to just let them play?

Book Allie mentioned she loved: Playful Parenting and his work on Rough housing see his Dr Cohen’s interview
Play with one child vs Play with two children
Allie’s: Alphabet activities ebook

Crayon Freckles: Painting with Kitchen utensils

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Now that you listened to this episode of Raising Playful Tots, here’s what you could to do next:

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83. Family mission statement

Transmitting your values and goals via a mission statement is one of the most effective ways of ensuring a direction for your playtime. You can overcome many obstacles to good play experiences that recur daily. 

Dan Miller is the creative thinker, career coach, speaker and author of 48 Days to the Work You Love and No More Dreaded Mondays. He’s appeared frequently in the media, writing for major publications and on TV shows. He is the president and leader of  48 days.com

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82. Simple steps to cultivating a read aloud habit

We all start doing it and gradually we do it less and less. There are many reasons why we should be reading aloud. Today in the show I share  some Simple steps to cultivating a read aloud habit. We get past the humps in the road and find solutions in this 29 minute show.

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3:35 why we should be Reading aloud and not just following the crowd  via resources.

http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/index.html

4:00 ways to pick a book  with Amy of Let’s Explore Getting Started With Chapter Books

4:45  tips on creating a plan

6:15  revising your when

7:20 Getting over the passive read aloud methods for wriggly toddlers and preschoolers ( Yes that all of them!)

Amy Mascott  of TeachMama : Read aloud series

10:15 how easy it is to link books to the real world

11:00 No more boring read aloud sessions

11:35 Join a read aloud challenge via  Footprints in the Butter each Thursday

12:20 Should you skip this section?

Join with others in your community with World Read Aloud day: March 7th , 2012.

14:55 How do you choose a really good read aloud book?

15:30 Have a look at book trailers via Mr Schu 

MrSchuReads- via YouTube

17:00 Finding your springboards

5-6 year old Read-Alouds (for Parent) :: Kindergarten Family Read-Alouds :: Pre-School Read-Alouds (a list of 50)

18:30 Picture books to inspire via Zoe of Playingbythebook.net.

19:10 Quick tips- Goodreads.com :: Wishlist via Amazon :: Schools :: Librarians :: audiobooks :: Kidlit radio and news

23:20 Must read: Avoiding problems with Boys and reading via Mr Schu and his interview with Pam Allyn.

25:10 Read alouds are a brilliant gateway into other areas like writing. Melissa of Imaginationsoup.net: Word jar.

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81. Flexibility and problem solving through drama

Hands up if you have a flexible and able problem solver at home? In today’s interview we talk about how we can raise flexible and problem solving children. We also talk about a new series and some updates behind the scenes. 

Laura Sydonie, actress, parent and business owner  is passionate about early years, special educational needs and drama. She’s performed and taught in many different countries around the world.

Currently Laura is the director of Theatre tots where she combines her experience and work with her two young children into Theatre tots.

Theatre tots was a finalist in the 2011 best interactive business award from the Mumpreneur awards.

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