ABSTRACT

This highly practical book will explain how to put the principles for early years education into practice through well-structured and purposeful circle time lesson plans. Jenny Mosley, the UK's leading expert on circle time, provides accessible guidance on:

  • incorporating the curriculum for personal, social and emotional development
  • enabling children to understand universal moral skills
  • developing young children's emotional intelligence
  • helping children to practise problem-solving skills.

Each chapter in this book explains circle time in a 'why? what? how?' format, and includes tick-sheets, bullet-pointed pages and examples showing how the theory works in practice.

Developed to closely mirror one of the major modules in the GNVQ in Childcare (levels 1 and 2), this is an invaluable and fun tool for developing young children's understanding of their feelings and relationships.

chapter 1|33 pages

Emotional Intelligence

chapter 2|6 pages

Moral values – the Golden Rules

chapter 3|4 pages

Learning skills

chapter 5|48 pages

Circle Time sessions

chapter 6|32 pages

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