{"id":459,"date":"2016-08-19T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=459"},"modified":"2016-08-19T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:18:47","slug":"grass-is-green-sky-is-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"grass is green, sky is blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/grass-green-sky-blue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-460\" alt=\"grass green sky blue\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/grass-green-sky-blue-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Last night I had the great pleasure of eating ginger crunch with the good folk of the North Canterbury network of excellent teachers. \u00a0OK, that&#8217;s not the real name of this network, but it&#8217;s a splendid collection of teachers from the non-compulsory sector (my Early Childhood peeps! \u00a0Holla!) and new entrant teachers from local Primary Schools.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about supporting children and families with their transition into school, and it&#8217;s a rare treat to get to work with a group more than once &#8211; we are two down and one to go. \u00a0It means we can follow up with one another, revisit content and keep the conversation bubbling.<\/p>\n<p>First up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ero.govt.nz\/publications\/continuity-of-learning-transitions-from-early-childhood-services-to-schools\/\">may I share this link to the ERO report<\/a> illuminated for us by the good work of our thesis writing colleague. \u00a0I vow to have a jolly good roam through this content before our next meeting. \u00a0I have kinda planned our next session, so revved was I yesterday upon my return home, and so impressed am I by the committed, caring, professional and hardworking crew of teachers in my community. \u00a0RESPECT!<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8230; we were talking a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/reports\/0001\/01\/01\/solving-social-ills-through-early-childhood-home-visiting\">Home Visits &#8230; here is one report <\/a>about the awesomeness thereof.<\/p>\n<p>More links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-serious-need-for-play\/\">THIS is an article from Scientific American magazine, called &#8220;The Serious Need for Play&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 and just this same week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothering.com\/articles\/free-time-play-important-every-child\/?utm_content=title2&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Mothering%20100%25%20Vb%20users%20who%20have%20opened%20in%20the%20last%20year%202016-08-11&amp;utm_term=Vb%20users%20that%20have%20opened%20in%20the%20last%20year\">Mothering magazine also published this article about Play<\/a>. \u00a0ENJOY.<\/p>\n<p>I think this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amightygirl.com\/untangled\">will be the next book I read<\/a> (when I finish at least a couple of the many I&#8217;m simultaneously reading at the moment) &#8211; thanks MJJ for the recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>AND lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzbct.org.nz\/bee-informed\">the New Zealand Bumblebee Conservation Trust<\/a>. \u00a0Let&#8217;s all ask for memberships for Christmas. \u00a0I&#8217;m planning ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the great pleasure of eating ginger crunch with the good folk of the North Canterbury network of excellent teachers. \u00a0OK, that&#8217;s not the real name of this network, but it&#8217;s a splendid collection of teachers from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,14,22,21,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}