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"All childhoods should be magical...",
"Something as simple as bubbles is full of so much magic and learning. Source of photo unknown.",
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"Environments filled with real things...",
"set up in ways that intice children to come explore....",
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"Childhood should be full of Discovery",
"Here a little three year old girl ponders \"If we take it back to school and put it in water, then it can get big and juicy like this one is\" Sometimes it is hard to watch children fail in thier discoveries, however it is a much greater failure to rob them of the change to try...it didnt get juicy again however, she came to the conclusion, \"that\'s ok their fun to blow too!\" and went on about her explorations. The process of trying taught her many more things then had I said \"No honey, its dried up and dead it wont come back.\"",
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"Science comes naturally",
"When offered a wide vareity of materials, opportunities to explore and occassional adult provocations then science, math and intellectual skills build naturally. As do social emotional and physical mastery.",
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"Hands on Expereinces",
"Keeping experiences in line with children\'s ineterests sometimes means that as educators, we need to get over our own phobias in order to provide children a change to figure it out for themselve...I used to hate snails until I took a deep breath and looked at them through the children\'s eyes instead of some memory I had of \'oohhh their slime will get all over your dress - drop it now\" from my own childhood!",
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"Print Rich envioronments",
"Here a little girl is practice writing, discovers she made an A, receives positive acknowledge meant and then practices over and over on her own...she isnt even three years old yet!",
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"Literacy through materials",
"Here, while exploring letter beads that were added to a mosaic bin, a three and a half year exclaims \"I made a word, like in the bathroom, it says \"Wash your hands\"",
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"More literacy through materials",
"Again, with provocation, a almost three year old discovery \"It\'s the letter D. Like for my daddy.\" in her magnet explorations.",
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"Finding math concepts in music",
"Here a little girl has lined up the bowls in the kitchen area from biggest to smallest she makes the connection \"It is getting quieter as it gets smaller\" as she is banging them.",
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"More or less",
"Adding materials that allow children to make discoveries around size and measurement concepts introduces math naturally. Here it makes more/less noise depending on how many you drop at once, the more you put on the top the quicker it will fall, etc, ",
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"Polka Dot hunt",
"Here, during our celebration of Polka Dots, the children gathered their dots and placed them according to color on the paper. They were able to have discussion then around which colour had more dots. This simple layout allows for introduction of sorting, catorgizing, graphing, etc.",
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"Reproducing previous experiences",
"Here, two days after the polka dot celebration, the materials still available for exploration, a three year old is recreating his experience indoors with the poker chips.",
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"Here he is again...",
"Three months later, he is still exploring the concept of catagorization and graphing!",
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"\"If you get anymore mud in your boots..\"",
"Here, after a child was told by someone \"if you get any more mud in your boots weeds will start to grow\" wanted to know if weeds could really grow in her boots, so after finding a pair of boots no one used anymore we gave it a try...great learning experience in gardening! And yes, peas can grow in boots and who knows what else?",
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"Sorting comes natural",
"I find, that when children\'s environments are role modelled to be clearly organized and inviting that sorting and organizing becomes not only fun but becomes natural to children. Here, after choosing a handful of beads to bring to the table a three year old then sorts them by colour before she began her beading activity...\"I am making it easy find the right one\" she exclaimed to her neighbor who was rooting through his bowl full of beads at the time.",
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"Pride in doing it themselves",
"When we see children is competent, capable individuals it becomes easier to allow them more freedom to try things for themselves",
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"Increases thier sense of wonder",
"The more we allw them to explore and try things out for themselves the more they teach us about the world! Source of photo unknown.",
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"Allowing them to dream BIG",
"I find that, through inspirations from Reggio Emilia teaching, I am not only providing a better environment for the chidren to dream big but that I myself am opening up my mind to bigger and better dreams! Source of photo unknown.",
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