Are you in the habit of presenting play dough to children?
Play dough ‘making’ station
Are you in the habit of always presenting dough to children ready made?
Miraculously it appears on the playdough table each day?
What if we told you that you’ve missed a wealth of opportunities, for children to learn, understand & be part of the process from beginning to end ?
Allowing children to make their OWN dough. It won’t be perfect? So what .
It’ll be messy? Big deal. It’ll need cleaning up? Again part of the process.
Learning doesn’t happen in pockets of isolation, it doesn’t happen at ‘Table Top’ activities either! There are thousands (and we mean thousands) of quality teaching and learning moments that happen throughout a day.
We have to stop only valuing the traditional ‘activities’ the planned events and predicted tasks. SEE the wealth of potential in our continuous provision.
In a process from beginning to end.
To begin with an adult will model, demonstrate, show, explain, scaffold & support playdough making. However the aim is to remove ourselves & allow independent competent capable children to make their own dough each day.
Our job is to give children the skills that they can do things independently & not to just miraculously present or do things for them !
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.’ –Thomas Carruthers
Thank you KC Childcare.
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