So Relatable: A Freewrite

Those are the, the climate resilience playback that that you are referring to there, Jessica Howard.How would the educational materials develop to to be age appropriate?Good question. So we have a a number of expert specialists who we've engaged with over the years around the national curriculum framework and age appropriate materials that would.

Land in an ECD center that would allow children to talk in a practical way, not a kind of overshooting and making it too complicated, but also bringing the the realities that we know children are experiencing like drought, you know, and so.One of the pictures is is of a piece of sand that looks like really, really dry. And that could be an interesting question to to the the group. You know, let's let's talk about what happens when we haven't seen rain for a long time and then what happens when it rains and.We've developed a number of age appropriate questions and activities that can happen at ECD level with groups and individually for children to kind of make stories up.

Yeah, patterns matching, for example, what do you wear in on a hot day? And then we have a number of clothing items that would be relevant for a hot day or cold day. So really making it fun and engaging with items that are relatable.Yeah, fun and engaging seems to be an important aspect of what you do at the Duval .

Last year it was Mandela's day of play. Yes, there is a focus on on climate change this year, but also through the vehicle of play. That's that's important. Jessica, it sounds like Sure, absolutely. I mean, learning through play is a globally.Acknowledged vehicle for learning and and change as well as innovation.