Series Books

Baby and Beyond By Sally Featherstone & Clare Beswick

Continuity and Progression through the EYFS The BabyandBeyondseries takes simple activities or resources and shows how they can be used with children at each of the EYFS development stages, from birth to 60+ months. Each easy-to-read double page spread covers one activity, so you can see progression at a glance.

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Out and About

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Shopping, travelling and walks to the park offer lots of chances for babies and young children to learn about number and counting. Exploring shapes, colours and patterns in the natural world not only presents counting possibilities but enables children to become familiar with and confident in the use of mathematical language.

Young babies (0-11 months)

Talk and sing to babies as you shop, placing items one at a time in a basket, counting as you go. Give a young baby one small item to hold and when it is dropped say ‘Gone’. Count kerbs and steps as the pushchair rumbles over them. Explore the feel and texture of objects as you count them. Offer choices and ask, ‘more?’. Let children explore the natural world safely, sitting in lots of leaves, counting cones or shells, looking at flowers, nuts, pebbles.

Developmental Stage 1

Babies (8-20 months)

Babies learn by doing, so count the stamps you make together in a puddle, the taps on a railing, the number of times the baby comes to you as you push a swing and so on. Try lots of ‘Ready Steady Go,’ and ‘One, Two, Three, Go,’ games rolling a ball, throwing leaves, tssing pebbles in a puddle. To help babies towards one-to-one correspondence, talk about objects and who they belong to, such as mummy’s hat, Joe’s hat, Jilly’s teddy.

Developmental Stage 2

Going Out Sixteen ideas for simple excursions and outdoor activities matched to stages of children’s development. Using colour coded ‘age-range boxes’ each page shows how outdoor experiences can be tailored for babies and children at different developmental stages. This layout makes it ideal for mixed age groups and for ensuring progression. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781408112540

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Construction The experiences with construction materials described in this book encourage development and learning through active play using all the senses. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019779

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The Sensory World Babies and young children learn by doing, and doing means using all the senses. This book offers experiences for all five senses at all stages of development. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019601

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Dens and Shelters This book gives ideas for introducing and extending role-play activities for babies and young children, offering children den-making opportunities which involve them in active learning and in critical thinking as they work together to make the structures they need for play. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029036

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Bikes, Prams & Pushchairs With the help of this book and its easy to follow format, practitioners will realise the huge potential of using wheeled toys at different levels. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019762

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Role Play This book supports anyone involved with young children in ensuring that the simplest role-play of tea parties and keeping house, develop and continue to provide interest and challenge as children grow. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029029

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Sound and Music Babies and young children experience sound from a very early age, so encouraging and developing responses to sounds is a key part of music making. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019595

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Mark Making The experiences with mark making materials described in this book encourage learning through active play using all the senses and enhancing independence and involvement in communication through meaningful marks. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019786

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Movement and Beat Movement and dance activities such as crawling, rolling, walking, skipping, reaching and swinging are essential for babies and young children’s brain development. This book gives practitioners ideas for supporting the development of these vital skills at all ages of development. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781408112465

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Have you seen..? Little Book of Dance Helps plan and extend children’s dance experiences.

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Finger Play and Rhymes Finger play and rhymes are essential elements in all early years settings. They support the development of communication and language, reinforce a sense of rhythm and beat and encourage the use of hands and feet in clapping, stamping, wiggling, tapping and simple counting. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029012

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About Me AboutMefocuses on Personal and Social Development, and helps practitioners to build progression into this vital aspect of children’s development. Matched to the stages of the EYFS this book makes it easy for practitioners to tailor activities to a child’s stage of development. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm

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Food & Cooking Providing healthy snacks and meals for children is a responsibility for schools and settings and this book has been prepared to help early years practitioners provide simple cooking experiences and enjoyable foods from simple ingredients. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029043

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Messy Play The messy experiences in this book all use sight, touch and smell, and of course, many babies and children will want to taste the experience as well! • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019588

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The Natural World Experiences of the natural world are essential elements in all Early Years settings. The experiences help babies and children to look and listen, to touch and feel and to enjoy being outdoors. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019571

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Small World Play The ideas in this book involve different types of small world play using commercially available small world products and other everyday and unusual items. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029692

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Dolls and Soft Toys Dolls and soft toys share all the worries, stresses and important happenings of young children’s lives. They are vital to the wellbeing and stability of many and can also be key learning resources for extending children’s learning. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781905019809

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Tell Me a Story TellMeaStoryhelps practitioners to build progression into a favourite part of the day for all children. It is full of practical ideas for introducing and extending storytelling activities and experiences for babies and young children. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm

ISBN: 9781408112434

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Counting This book shows how counting can be developed using every day activities familiar to all early years practitioners, creating real opportunities for children to make choices and use their emerging skills and understanding. • Paperback • 40pp • 105 x 297mm ISBN: 9781906029449

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