Jan 3 • General discussion
Play schema
🌿✨ SCHEMA SPOTLIGHT — LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL LEARNING IN ACTION! ✨🌿
In this video, you’ll see a child carefully spooning woodchip from a container to “feed” a dinosaur… and while it might look like simple fun, there is so much deep learning happening beneath the surface.
This moment is a perfect example of multiple schemas working together — the brain’s natural way of building knowledge through repeated patterns of play.
🌱 Transporting Schema
This is the most obvious schema at play here.
Children in a transporting schema love to:
• Scoop
• Pour
• Transfer
• Move materials from one place to another
Every spoonful is strengthening:
✨ Coordination
✨ Focus
✨ Cause and effect
✨ Early maths and science thinking
✨ Problem‑solving
✨ Purposeful movement
🌱 Enveloping / Enclosing Schema
There’s also a beautiful layer of enveloping/enclosing happening.
This schema appears when children:
• Put things inside other things
• Cover, fill, wrap, or hide objects
• Create boundaries or “homes”
• Contain materials in purposeful ways
By placing the woodchip into the dinosaur’s mouth, the child is exploring:
✨ Inside/outside
✨ Containment
✨ Boundaries
✨ Spatial awareness
✨ The idea of “feeding” or “caring for” something
🌿 And then… the story
On top of the schemas sits the magic:
✨ Imagination
✨ Role play
✨ Empathy
✨ Narrative thinking
Schemas build the brain.
The story builds the soul.
This is why outdoor play matters.
This is why child‑led learning matters.
This is why understanding schemas transforms your practice.
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