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Beautiful Stuff!: Learning with Found Materials Hardcover – December 31, 1999

by Cathy Weisman Topal (Author), Lella Gandini (Author)

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Encourage your kids to express their creativity as they discover, collect, sort, arrange, experiment, and think with found and recyclable “stuff.” The real-life experiences of teachers and children will inspire ideas that you can try at home: choose objects and turn them into a display, transform materials into a face, build and glue wood scraps to make constructions. Appropriate for children four years of age and older.

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Cathy Weisman Topal has been an art teacher for over 20 years. She teaches three- to eight-year-olds at the Smith College Campus School, and also teaches art education at Smith College. She is the author of Children, Clay, and Sculpture and Children and Painting.

Lella Gandini is an author, a correspondent for the Italian early childhood magazine Bambini, and adjunct professor in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She serves as Reggio Children Liason in the United States for Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach.

Other Books by This Author:
Children, Clay, and Sculpture
Children and Painting.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0871923882
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Davis (December 31, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780871923882
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0871923882
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.25 inches

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Carmel
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2022
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Excellent book, easy read with beautiful pictures. The seller kept the book in good condition, delivered on time with a beautiful note.

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Extremely valuable resource for teachers
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2013
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I have recommended this book to teachers countless times. It is a brilliant accounting of an intentional plan for using found objects in an early childhood program. It shows the versatile possibilities of using found objects in all areas of the curriculum
for the entire year. But the integrated process in which the teachers proceed in the book is the key element. It connects home to school, provides for the child's deep involvement in deciding and directing the learning and illustrates the beauty and adaptability of collaboration in the classroom.

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M. Ericson
A treasure trove of ideas for preschool teachers
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2009
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This book contains many ideas for storing and using things that we ordinarily throw away! It makes one stop and think before discarding anything at all. We have found our children using these "findings" in a myrisd of ways - time after time. After the initial "collecting" we have found that the collection was so large that we have not "collected" again for two years, and still have a great variety of materials. Goes to show that one does not need many of the expensive items in the catalogs in order to have interesting materials for teaching children!!

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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2011
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Beautiful Stuff documents the learning and teaching process of found materials which children collected from home with the help of their parents. It is inspiring and gives a new Reggio-inspired teacher or any early childhood educators who are keen in the project approach an insight to the whole learning and teaching process. I find it useful read and is part of my resource. I'm a early childhood educator but now a stay-at-home mum.

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I like this book
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I took a lot of ideas for working with my kids at school.

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Great Ideas for Early Childhood Education/ Preschool Aged Children
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2016
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I absolutely adored this text book. This was purchased for a Early Childhood course and it was definitely a great investment. This is a text book I will hang on to use in my future classroom.

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but still gives wonderful ideas for providing non-commercial materials and "beautiful stuff" for ...
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It's a bit dated, but still gives wonderful ideas for providing non-commercial materials and "beautiful stuff" for young children to explore.

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Book is great....but I had to clean it.

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