- Children have a natural curiosity about the world around them.

- Every child's learning journey is unique.

- The journey is more important than the destination.

- Allowing children to explore and investigate using a variety of methods allows them to experiment with different learning strategies, and to build their self-confidence.

- Occasional failures encourage children to be innovative and to develop their problem-solving abilities.

"Play is the highest form of research."
-Albert Einstein

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
- Mr. Fred Rodgers

"We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there."
-Howard Gardner

Each child is unique in the way they learn and how they explore and understand the word around them.

As teachers, we introduce and model different learning strategies. This allows our students to experiment and explore so they can discover which methods work best for them.

When children feel that they have a choice in how they play, examine and investigate, they become more motivated to learn.

Further reading:

Learning through Play (a brief article examining Vygotsky, Piaget, and others' views on how children learn)

https://www.cyrus.net.nz/musings/23-learning-through-play.html