Actual Questions and Answers
A young child asks about letters in order to learn about ownership and labeling, not because they want to have a formal lesson in identifying and writing out the alphabet and words! No, thank you.
Building Play
The play builds. Just like blocks on top of blocks. The children take the play messages left by the group before and move easily into their own play arcs. The play goes on. And on. And on.
Rivulets (Returning to the Play)
These direct experiences with play are rivulets. This independent (and collaborative) study which at the time, were all in the NOW, leave lovely interconnected webs of information that build future context and relationships. We work, we live, we talk, we share, we build ideas and things. All these are directly related to those early moments of discovery.