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These are some of my four year old son’s favourite words. He is starting to treat them with caution though, having overplayed the ‘surprise’ approach many a time –“I’ve got a surprise if you brush your teeth/eat dinner/stop sitting on my head at 6am.” The excitement is swiftly followed by crushing disappointment when the surprise is revealed to be a kiss from me/an apple/an invisible pet. It’s incredibly satisfying to identify the schema your child is interested in. You are then able to offer toys and activities that help them get the most from their investigations.

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Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget, noticed that children of a similar age all make the same kinds of mistakes. This led him to speculate that learning happens in stages and that as children grow they progress to higher levels. Part of his theory considered how schema play enabled this transition. You can read more about it here. How many schemas are there? Like all schema play, development of the enclosing schema happens naturally. But if you know to look out for it, you can provide opportunities to practice and improve. Social, communication and language skills are all improved through playing with construction resources.Does your child like to arrange her toys just-so? Does he spend hours lining his cars up in a row or find pleasure in creating scenes or displays? Then your child is exploring their positioning schema. Positioning provides early foundations for many key skills and activities, from laying the table and placing shoes under pegs, to creating patterns in maths and maintaining neat work in school books.

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Read more about the enveloping schema and how it relates to object permanence and attachment. And read about enveloping’s closest cousin, the containing schema. Rotation schema

But there is a second type ofschema – schemas of form. We use these to help usrecall shapes and arrangements. As our understanding becomes more sophisticated, we use them to draw and eventually to write. Make water in the lounge, Mummy!” I love the God-like expectations my children have of me. One soggy rug later they were really happy fishing together and it occupied them for quite an impressive amount of time. I was really taken by the bright, retro design of the boat and it’s appeal to different age ranges. With different levels of play it would grow with a child from baby onwards. There are designs included to copy, or you can make a design for the student to copy. We made some letters and worked on a helicopter. It can be difficult, but is rewarding because the shapes look very cool when done.

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If your tot isn’t quite at the age for children’s colouring exercises, why not opt for a baby’s first colouring book from our selection? Suitable from the age of 12 months, these are a great way for little ones to develop early pen control and learn the colours of the rainbow before they move on to the paints. So sweet! I had heard years ago about using straws and connectors, and I think that someone had mentioned using regular straws and the connectors for drip tubing from home depot. Well I tried the drip tubing connectors, and they don’t work with regular straws. They are too small for regular straws, and they are very hard to get into the drip tubing. I saw a play set of straws and connectors at a teacher store, but it was expensive and I wasn’t going to spend that kind of money. Then, a couple of months ago, I was wandering through Marshalls, and found these Connecta Straws for less than 8 dollars. That was a price I was willing to pay (eager even). This exploration and understanding of the infinity inherent in circles lays the foundations for everything from rotational symmetry in mathematics and rotating magnetic fields in secondary school science, to dancing at the disco or passing parcels at the party. It It all started at six months when you dropped a ball and watched it roll away.

When children twirl around, roll down a hill or just wind their hair around a pencil, they’re exploring their rotation schema. Anything circular – wheels, twirly straws, being swung around by a grown-up, watching the washing machine, ring-a-roses: these are all experiences of rotation. The truth is that there is an infinite number. But the more categories we create, the harder it is to identify which schema applies. Too many and the classification becomes unwieldy. Having said that, you might like to read more about some other well-known schemas. But as you do, consider which of the main schemas they might fall under. When a theory is simple it’s easier to take action. Closely related to the enveloping schema, but with its own distinct character, the enclosingschema is about creating boundaries.