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Enabling Environments: Friendly spaces, Part 2 - Floor plans
By Elizabeth Jarman,
Nursery World,
17 July 2008
Floor play areas are an essential and sometimes overlooked context for learning, says Elizabeth Jarman, in the second of a series looking at the kinds of spaces that nurseries need to provide for children.
In some settings, particularly reception classes, learning is associated with children seated at a table, when, in fact, the floor can be a much more productive place to learn. Floor play is important to children. From birth, they explore most freely when placed on a floor mat, where they can stretch, roll and crawl, uninhibited as they are in car seats or high chairs. On the...
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