Transporting Schema ....

 

Realising the Ambition: Being Me 

Lets take a look at the Transporting Schema ...

Transporting Schema  - Children enjoy repeatedly collecting things and moving resources around, from one place to another. They may carry them using their hands, baskets, bags, wheelbarrows, prams, boxes, pockets or other such containers and vessels.

What might the children be learning? 

• Children may be learning distance, routes, routines, mapping, direction, how things move or travel, body/spatial awareness or where things belong. 

How can i support this schematic play? 

• Ensure you provide plentiful amounts of loose parts to transport such as pine cones, buttons, shells, bobbins, pebbles, bottle tops etc..
• Provide a variety of containers and vessels such as boxes, buckets, pot and pans, bottles, jugs, baskets, bags etc..
• Remember to provide resources indoors and outdoors. Outdoor areas could include resources of a larger scale if space allows. 

Have a look around your setting... what resources do you have available for children to support their Transporting Schema? Is there anything you could add or enhance? 

If you would like further guidance on observing and supporting schemas in young children please get in touch.

[You may also like to take a look at my previous post  - 'What are Schemas?']