We ask children so many questions during the course of a day. We often do it to check their understanding of a new idea or concept, such as, what shape is this? Or, how many teddies are in your boat? Yet how many of us create opportunities for children to learn the complex skill required to formulate their own questions?
Planning a visit from a local vet provided us with a stark reminder of the importance of such learning.
LEARNING CONTEXT
Our current learning context is 'Community' and during this term we have been focusing on the people in our community who help us stay healthy, safe, happy and well. We have been thinking about the important people around us, and have invited a number of visitors into our setting to tell us about their roles. We recently invited our local vet, Richard Matthews, into school so we could find out all about his job - or at least that was the original intention of his visit.
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