Exploration

In their play, children are experimenting with and exploring their encounters and experiences in the physical and social worlds in which they live.  As they work with materials in their play, and encounter the ideas of other children, questions arise, new possibilities are imagined. Within this process of experimenting, exploring, and creating, children are working hard to make sense of the world and their place in it.  It is in play that children are giving form to and expressing the meanings and understandings they are constructing.