Even the ordinary things that are a real pain to adults are endlessly fascinating to young children,’ says Ginny Andreas, manager of Little Adventurers Daycare Nursery in Upminster, Essex. ‘I've learned over the years that we have to think like three-year-olds, and I teach my staff that everything is interesting to children because they've not seen most things before.’
So, when Ginny's car windscreen annoyingly developed a crack and needed replacing, she saw it as a perfect learning opportunity for the pre-school children. ‘I always remember a comment that early years trainer Alice Sharp made – “curiosity leads to investigation and investigation leads to discovery” – and I see that as our job, to ignite that curiosity, because children are curious beings anyway. We need to slow down and show them the ordinary things in life.’
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