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A girl is building a house out of wooden unit blocks
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Froebel’s gifts and block play today
When Friedrich Froebel gave his cousin a set of wooden blocks for her two young sons as a present and asked her to observe how they played with them, he gave us two gifts in one – a practical resource designed for children’s learning and…
Froebels gift #5
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Learning from Froebel’s Kindergarten
Now is a good time to familiarise ourselves with Froebel’s original ideas, and to use them to challenge inappropriate practices used with our youngest children.
young boy playing with blocks and a toy truck
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The importance of play for learning
Childhood is a time for, well, childhood! It’s not a preparation for school or adulthood. It’s a time for allowing children to go at their own pace, giving them the time they need to explore, manipulate, discover, and practise newly…
two nursery aged children sailing bark boats in a tiny pool of water
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Return to kindergarten
Kindergarten is a time for the full flowering of the imaginations of children, the time for “mature role play” as an engine of mental and social-emotional development.
children examining moss
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The importance of nature in the early years
The world is full of expectation and possibility for young children from the moment they are born.
village of Keilhau
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Impressions of Keilhau
To arrive in Keilhau, Germany, is to begin at the beginning: the origins of the Kindergarten and of Froebelian education are there.
Three children playing with wooden blocks
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Bringing the Froebel approach to your early years practice
‘A Froebelian approach is… a whole way of thinking about children and childhood’, Helen Tovey writes.
Portrait of Friedrich Froebel on the background of the village of Keilhau
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Friedrich Froebel
What was life like before ‘childhood’ existed? Children worked in mines and factories; nobody celebrated birthdays, and by the age of seven children were considered adults. Then along came Friedrich Froebel.
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Child-led outdoor play
Children at Cowgate Nursery enjoy using Outlast blocks for some amazing creative play outdoors.