By expanding the choice of materials offered to the children this week, we hoped to see whether their individual interests and ways of working that they have displayed so far, would cross the media boundaries and show themselves again.

We also aimed to give them access to materials that they may be able to find themselves and use in the future, whether in 5×5x5/pre-school or at home, so that they can continue to learn by exploring creatively and confidently outside of our session time.

As the children are getting more confident with working (playing) with me they are also getting more used to talking about their investigations and the thinking behind them… several times today spilling into story-telling and narrative as twigs became trees waving in the wind and a plastic tube acted as a man cutting down a hedge.

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