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Blog - My Play Based Classroom

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I'm Janelle - a play-based early years teacher passionate about creating learning experiences that ignite curiosity, creativity, and academic growth.

On this blog, I share practical tips on meeting curriculum benchmarks through a balance of explicit teaching and play, setting up the ideal learning environment and fostering social-emotional development.

Let’s make play-based teaching work in your your preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms!

Explicit teaching

Investigations and play

Classroom Environment

Social and Emotional

Posts tagged play based learning environment

What is Play-Based Learning? A Guide for Early Years Teachers

Discover what play-based learning is, why it works, and how to use it in early years classrooms. Benefits, examples, and a free teacher guide included.

Investigations, Explicit Teaching, Classroom Environment, Social and EmotionalJanelle McArdle19 January 2026play based learning, early years, investigations, play based classroom, play based learning environment, play based learning curriculumComment

Creating an Effective Play Based Learning Environment

Wondering how to create an effective play based learning environment? In this blog post you’ll discover how to create a learning environment that enhances student engagement and promotes academic success. Explore seven proven strategies that will help you transform your classroom into an effective and inspiring space for learning.

Investigations, Classroom EnvironmentJanelle McArdle25 September 2023play based learning environment, play based classroom, play based learning, learning environment, environment as the third teacher Comments

Blog - My Play Based Classroom

I’m Janelle and I’m here to help you implement an engaging, play based curriculum

that STILL has your children meeting academic standards and benchmarks!