Book Picks: Over and Under the Snow

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Stranger in the Woods

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North Country Night

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 Secrets of Winter

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Heuristic Play Group: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/149534875605443/

Books:

Treasure Baskets by Laura Wilhelm

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Developing Play for the Under 3s: The Treasure Basket and Heuristic Play by Anita M. Hughes

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Tinkergarten: Wellness

http://blog.tinkergarten.com/blog/2018/12/14/why-winter-is-both-a-perfect-and-dangerous-time-for-wellness

 

Leah McDermott, Your Natural Learner

 

#150hoursoutside Project

https://www.facebook.com/groups/150hoursoutside/

 

Tracking sheets and ideas are available with both projects. I just started a list on the Notes app on my phone.J I always have it with me. 
1000 Hours Outside

 

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it’s necessary to stand out in the cold. –Aristotle

 

Book Picks:

 Best in Snow by April Pulley Sayre

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Find the handout: https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2018/12/loose-parts-handout.html

 

Quote:

“To me, loose parts aren’t things. It is a way of thinking, an approach. To me everything and anything can be a loose part, even me for the children to use how they see fit in their play space. It is about children using their imagination to create spaces to play using whatever is in their vicinity, the more choice and variety the better.” (Nathan MacGillivray, Play Development Worker)

 

Loose Parts Toolkit by Inspiring Scotland:

https://www.inspiringscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Loose-Parts-Play-web.pdf

What is a schema?

https://bit.ly/2AbPQFt

Loose Parts: What does this mean?

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Nicholson’s Theory of Loose Parts

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One Little Word: Grow
http://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-one-little-word-grow.html

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/carla_berkey/grow/

 

Worm Factory 360:

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 One Little Word: Explore
https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-one-little-word-explore.html

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/carla_berkey/explore-2013/

One Little Word with Ali Edwards: https://aliedwards.com/projects/one-little-word

 

 

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith

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Ice Explorations Facebook Post:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LoosePartsPlay/permalink/2147058781982397/

 

Frozen Treasures—Tinkergarten

https://tinkergarten.com/activities/frozen-treasure

Ice Mobiles: https://tinkergarten.com/activities/ice-mobiles

 

Exploring ice in nature—Straits of Mackinac blue ice:

https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/blue_ice_piling_up_near_michig.html

 

Videos on Sound/Ice:

https://www.facebook.com/katie.miltenberger/posts/1792868530785181

https://www.facebook.com/nprskunkbear/videos/293512697720537/

 

Book Picks:

 

Twelve Kinds of Ice

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Diamond in the Snow
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Whatever the Weather

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Book reviews at IJECEE

https://naturalstart.org/sites/default/files/journal/7._gull_formatted_0.pdf

 

Learning is in Bloom (aff link)

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Nature and Young Children (aff link)

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Blog Post

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2017/12/light-painting.html

 

Book Pick

Eric Curry Painting with Light: Lighting & Photoshop Techniques for Photographers, 2nd Ed Second Edition

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Blog Post

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2015/12/gifts-of-nature-10-holiday-nature-gift.html

 

Nature Board Games

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2016/12/board-games-with-nature-twist.html

 

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/activities/2016/11/christmas-scavenger-hunt/

 

See our adventure at

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-natural-christmas-scavenger-hunt.html

 

Wilder Child Nature Activity Countdown

https://wilderchild.com/2018-outdoor-adventure/

 

 

Quote

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.                   --Norman Vincent Peale

 

Book Picks

Snow Tree and Night Tree, both help explore the colors and gifts of nature to decorate a tree. In Snow Tree by Caroline Repchuk, animals, such as a raccoon, blue jay, and squirrel, decorate a tree with many colors from nature. Night Tree by Eve Bunting features a family that goes on a hike each year to decorate a tree for the animals with many appropriate edibles for the animals in mind.

 

Snow Tree (aff link):

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Night Tree (aff link):

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Light and Reflection as a Loose Part

 Light and Reflection Blog Post

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2018/02/lights-and-reflection-as-loose-part.html

 

 Light Exploration Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1802686343344084

 

 Cultivating Early Years

Make your own light box

https://www.facebook.com/LoosePartsPlay/posts/1158096984331378

 

CEY Facebook page light pics

https://www.facebook.com/LoosePartsPlay/posts/1158100287664381

 

Litebrite

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 Tinkergarten Lanterns

https://tinkergarten.com/activities/let-there-be-light

Learn more about becoming a Tinkergarten Leader:

http://bit.ly/LoosePartsTG

 

 Light painting

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2017/12/light-painting.html

 

Right brained mom

https://www.facebook.com/rightbrainedmom/

 

Acrylic mirrors link 12 by 12

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 Montessori Nature 10 plus ways to use mirrors

https://www.montessorinature.com/enrich-play-with-mirrors/

 

NINPA

https://www.facebook.com/naturepreschools/

 

 Making the Most of Light and Mirrors—professional development book

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Quotes

 

My Shadow Poem by Robert Louis Stephenson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43196/my-shadow

Video of the poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlhgRMlQqUs

 

Maker faire post

https://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2013/09/maker-faire-tinkerers-dream.html

 

Playtime is precious. Play builds brain pathways for thinking, creativity, flexibility, empathy and many other lifelong skills.

--Heather Shumaker

 

 

 Books

Shadow by Susy Lee

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Flashlight by Lizi Boyd

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Into the Shadows by Joseph Holeman

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What makes the shadow? By Clyde Robert Bulla

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Light shadows mirrors by Natalie Rosinsky

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