Children in this Kinder room range from the age of 3.5 to 6 years old at Goodstart Early learning Centre Moonee Ponds. The Educators in this room remain similar every week, the teacher who has been teaching for about 10 years, the Educator that is second in charge, and two other Educators that help out the teacher and second in charge Educator who can change everyday. 

I was surprised as the children were helping each other when trying to build this fort. At times I wanted to step in and help, but I am glad I didn’t as it is important that the children learn from each other. 

This made me think how differently each child can learn as all children of different ages, personalities can learn. It also made me realise how children are able to help each other effectively when learning through repetitive movements, how can we use communication to further a child’s learning. 

While observing the children at the centre I have seen that children are constantly copying each other, and if a child does make a mistake it does not necessarily mean that they are doing anything ‘wrong’, they just are learning and they therefore can learn in different ways. When children build relationships with other children and educators how are they communicating and talking to other students and teachers in order to learn through making mistakes? 

Other children who are not as willing and open towards criticism, then they may not have a stronger relationship with each other and they are therefore not able to learn through trial and effort and repetitive movements. It is important that children listen to each other to build relationships and be open to constructive criticism. This follows the pedagogy of listening as each child listens in different ways and can hear in different ways, I feel as though it is important to listen to the child so that I can encourage this behaviour. 

The VEYLF’ relates to the observations while observing at the centre, the observations relate to ‘Communication, Children are effective communicators’. This outcome explains how ‘children’s wellbeing, identify a sense of agency and capacity to make friends which is connected to the development of communication skills (Department of Education and Training, 2016). This outcome links towards my placement as in the first observation as the children who were building the fort were friends and have built a strong relationship with each other and if they did not build a strong relationship, then they were not able to help each other to learn. 

In this section I want to further my thinking about what other learning there is. These examples not only describe how children are capable emotionally and physically to learning through trial and error, but also how emotionally and physically they are able to build relationships with each other. 

As teacher, I would like to encourage children to make mistake, to communicate by talking about what they learnt, to encourage children children to be honest about their mistakes and to always be calm and patient with children as they react better towards a calm Educator.