good on your setting! there are so many ways you can support children's experiences without controlling it in this way. many on here i should imagine, thankfully templates and colouring sheets have been consigned to the bin and not before time. my question would be why do you think they need to do something on paper to learn about something so exciting! role play. modelling, stories, making books all much better ways of learning. paper products achieve nothing at this age apart from fulfilling the needs of the adult. it does of course mean we have to work a bit harder like setting up a chinese restaurant or a diwali party or making a stonehenge, but far deeper learning.
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