Bev Bos was the Director and Teacher at the Roseville Community Preschool in Roseville, CA for over 40 years. She is the author of four books; Don’t Move the Muffin Tins, Before the Basics, Together We’re Better and Tumbling Over the Edge. Bev presented over 6,000 workshops around the country and internationally on topics in early childhood education, creative art, music and language, science for young children, helping children learn to socialize naturally and for adults, the conditions for growing wiser every day. [click image to play] What Every Preschool Could BeBev takes us on a guided tour of the Roseville Community Preschool. “People talk about reading, writing and arithmetic being the basics. Those are very complex processes and they have to be based on the basics, you have to have the basics first, then you can do what people call the basics. The number one basic for everyone on this planet is wonder. Children are born with it. You have to product the toddler from themselves they’re so filled with wonder. Wanting to know everything on this planet. It’s here. It’s a thing that we have to keep alive that we don’t. I’m stunned when I travel, when I …
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Play is Learning is one of the best introductions to Joseph Chilton Pearce, one that embodies a number of his fundamental themes: ages and stages of development, the model imperative, the difference between real learning and conditioning (the behavior modification and training we call schooling) and how authentic play represents natures design for optimum learning and performance, at any age, meeting any challenge.
Join us for a tour of the Roseville Community Preschool with Bev Bos – What Every Preschool Could Be. Play is the natural and optimum state for learning and performance, at any age, stage or activity. Our challenge as parents and adults is to encourage and facilitate this state in children by modeling original play in our daily lives. This program is full of practical examples how this can be done by setting the stage, in this case the preschool environment. The core principles however apply to any place, just about any time, at any age.
Play and what about clean-up? — The essence of all learning is play, it’s how we learn about everything is to play with everything, then the more a child has to worry about who is going to clean up, the less they play. The less they play the less they grow in every way possible. So you have to give it some thought about what you’re going to do.
Learning at home without spending a dime — I think what parents needs to do at home is to just make up their mind not to spend a dime for a while. Get a pile of rocks.
Adaptable open-ended toys — the difference between tools and toys