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Enabling Environments: All about ... Sensory rooms
Nursery World,
29 May 2008
It doesn't require a large budget, just plenty of imagination and some careful forethought about how it's going to be used, to kit out your setting with a sensory room, as Annette Rawstrone explains.
'In order to grow and learn, the human brain needs to be stimulated by sensory experiences that take place within a rich and varied environment ... a child needs to see, touch, hear, taste and smell, to play, explore, and experiment, and above all, to feel loved.' - Vea Vecchi, 'Children, spaces, relations' (1998) Reggio Children More and more mainstream nurseries are discovering the learning potential of sensory rooms. The...
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