“ Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold” - Joseph Chilton Pearce The children have been busy running our Vet Hospital this week as they engage with a range of children playing together. Items such as x-rays, dress ups, phones, keyboard, clipboards, teddies and stethoscopes are provided as provocations to the children to use in their play. In dramatic play children have the opportunity to: - develop their receptive and expressive language skills (listening and speaking). - build their attention and engagement capacity - learn how to negotiate other children and their own thoughts, strategies and ideas - develop their social skills; entering play, leading and following in the play, sharing ideas in their play - develop abstract thinking skills - pre numeracy skills and understandings such as (classifying, counting, sorting etc)