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Originally Posted by Andy B
Can anybody help me with K18 - Why children and young people should extend themselves through play if they didn't extend/try out/experiment in their play they would not learn and develop further,as human beings we have an innate drive to continue to strive and learn. and how to encourage this by providing them with rich and varied learning experiences and opportunities, if you provide them, they will be curious and want to extend themselves naturally, you've only got to watch children and they are 'fiddling' looking at, twisting, turning and sometimes breaking things as they 'take a closer look'. In your planning you will provide appropriate toys/equipment etc as giving a child something that is too old or difficult for them will not encourage or help, it may do the opposite i.e. if you give them a 36 piece puzzle and they've only just got the hang of taking and replacing pegged puzzle pieces in and out, they are unlikely to go from that stage straight to large scale puzzles. However if you provide a variety of puzzles on your puzzle table, this caters for all ages and stages, they have the opportunity to experiment/reinforce and extend their own play, learning and development themselves..
I just can't think how to word it 
Thanks in advance
Andy  |
I hope this helps, I've only given you pointers about children extending themselves and not others role modelling, encouraging etc as your question is why should a child extend themselves. If you really want to know more about why children/adults strive and motivate themselves, you'll have to read up on it a bit more, it depends how deep you want to go into that bit.
Having trouble with unit 210 k18
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