While play is an essential ingredient of childhood, so too are children’s early experiences in the world. Watching a child see and do something for the first time is one of the joys of working in early years. Something as trivial as seeing someone knit, dropping a pebble into water or feeding the ducks at the local park can fill children’s faces with fascination and later feed their imaginations.
Not only do early experiences form a background to children’s earliest memories, but they are also developmentally significant. In some ways, it could be argued that widening children’s worlds through experiences is one of the key roles of an early educator.
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