1. Making connections. Connecting ideas and understanding about the world -- Connecting through the senses and movement -- Finding out about the environment and other people -- Playfully engaged and involved -- Making patterns, comparing, categorising, classifying -- Connecting ideas and understanding the world -- 2. Representing. Experimenting -- Making marks -- Using tools and resources -- Brush and paint -- Shape and pattern -- Symbols -- 3. Being creative. Responding to the world -- Recognising schemas -- Experimenting -- Competence -- Being resourceful -- Meeting diverse needs -- 4. Being imaginative. Spaces and opportunities -- Imitating -- Exploring and re-enacting -- Sensory -- Pretending -- Expressing -- Appendix: The birth of three framework for 'A competent learner'.
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"Making strong links with the "Every Child Matters" agenda, Birth to Three Matters and the newly launched Early Years Foundation Stage from Birth to Five, this book provides direct advice, information and ideas on how to help children be competent learners within an early years setting."--book jacket.