Nursery World - Look and learn (4)

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Scenario

Approaching the water area, Amy (aged four years, two months) calls to another child, 'Sam! I'm going to play in the water - do you want to come?'

Sam (three years, 11 months) enters the area too. Amy puts on an apron and spends a few moments looking in the water and stirring it with her hand. As her cuffs begin to get wet, she rolls up the sleeves of her jumper.

Amy is delighted to discover sand and rocks at the bottom of the water tray. 'It's a pond! This is where the frogs live!' She turns to an adult working nearby and asks, 'Can we have the frogs to go in the pond?' The adult supplies a basket of plastic pond creatures and Amy places two frogs on a rock. Sam watches and then says, 'This is my rock... where my frogs live.' Amy smiles and responds, 'Yes! Here are your frogs.' She hands him two frogs. For a few minutes the children make their frogs jump from rock to rock as they make croaking noises. 'The water is spilling on the floor - don't slip - the mop will get it up.'

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