Look at the photographs on this page. What do you see?
Can you see that the children have transferred, contained, combined and transformed materials? Can you see explorations of trajectory, orientation, rotation, grouping and positioning?
Can you see two hours of engagement, belying the idea that children have short attention spans?
Can you see the social learning, turn taking and negotiation required for a group of children aged 2 to 5 years?
Can you see the educators’ commitment to free flow play that supports children’s learning?
When we celebrate the messiness of learning, we validate children’s ideas, their ways of knowing and being, their learning processes, their interests and explorations, their learning and development.
Do you document the traces of learning as well as your beautiful provocations?
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