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The great thing about telling stories in families and playgroups is that you can tell to small groups. This means that you can be a lot more intimate in your style, more specific and direct in your story content and be much more flexible in your response to your audience. The challenge however is that there is a tendency for these situations to be a lot less structured. Structure in places such as schools and kindergartens is created and maintained to cut down distractions and distracting behavi

Welcome to the Early Years Activities Collection.We have tried to provide you with a rich and varied range of learning opportunities. They are play based experiences and they fulfil and compliment so many curriculum areas. Play in early years is how children learn and make sense of the world. These are only guide lines and you can adapt the ideas, as you know your children best and can follow their interests. Each activity is meant to be cross-curricular, They do not just cover a maths focus, a