When I was trained many years ago, I learned how wonderful it can be to take a child's interest in something and extend it ...
However, I was also taught that if a child doesn't have many interests he will miss so much that is going on around him.
How do you plan for a child's interests when you don't get feedback?
The answer is that you can plan a range of activities you know will interest and excite the child to learn and extend his knowledge.
You can call these what you like... themes, topics, child-friendly focus activities... it really doesn't matter!
What you are doing is using a child's natural enthusiasm for learning, sprinkling in a liberal dose of multiculturalism and diversity and presenting exciting learning opportunities for children of all ages, which are relevant to their development needs.
The day that becomes the wrong thing to do I will go stacking shelves at Tesco
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