One of the many joys of working in the early years is that you and your children can find inspiration for learning all around you, and in the simplest of things. A plain cardboard box becomes a spaceship, in which you fly to the moon.
The weather is a great resource for learning too, especially in a country where it is so changeable. On a sunny winter’s day, you can examine the length of your shadows, and talk about how low the sun is in the sky. Yes, expensive resources in glossy catalogues are tempting. But every early years practitioner knows that the most powerful resource of all is the imagination.
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