Interaction Imagination

Pockets... I love them... as do my two daughters... but seldom do we get decent pockets in our clothes, compared with the pockets of my...

Continuing my sharing of my play observations where I chose not to just observe children in preschools and play-spaces but to also...

The surprise when we paused and looked at our shadows… Child: woah! You are taller than me…!!! I am not sure who was the most surprised...

I am always noticing... especially play. And as I come to the close of my playwork training I have decided to share some of the...

Holidays are not something I teach or teach about… they are, instead, an opportunity to discover our multiplicity - after all, each...

Here are some ideas for math activities I have created to mix learning into children's play. These ARE an activities and technically not...

written by Suzanne Axelsson 🇬🇧🇸🇪 available in this blogpost Italian translation Roberta Pucci 🇮🇹 Hebrew translation Nona Orbach...

Written by Suzanne Axelsson 🇬🇧 Found here Swedish translation Suzanne Axelsson 🇸🇪 Finns tillgänglig här Hebrew translation Nona...

Just as I no longer refer to myself as Reggio Emilia inspired, but Malaguzzi inspired because of the many different ways that the...

Water is many things... for a start it comes in many forms... liquid, gas and solid... A flexibility to meet the needs of the...

Play and listening... it keeps coming back to these two things for me. If I was to boil it down to two important words it would be Play...

In my FB group The Original Learning Approach I shared the below quote and it stimulated some really interesting dialogues... not least...

I have started training as a playworker Each Friday I meet with a group of others also wanting to train as a playworker and we actively...

Risk is one of the essential threads of Original Learning. During the last few weeks I have been immensely fortunate to listen and...

The Emergent Curriculum is about being responsive to the children. That the curriculum, the teaching emerges from the child's needs and...

Today is the first day of the last month of 2020. A very different year than we all were expecting, that has required some creative...

Many years ago now I started a project called "Together on the Square". The aim was to "teach" empathy by exposing the children to...

Responding to the children not following the children is key in Original Learning - plans are made, activities designed to provoke...

I still have memories of being interested in dinosaurs as a young child. I have certain memories of books and conversations I had about...

Rough and tumble play. It really is an arena of great learning - but as the responsible adult it is also a period of 100% focus. The...