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The transportation schema allows practitioners to witness the
advance of learning. Nicole Weinstein shares her advice on supporting
it.

Young children love to push trolleys and wheelbarrows and to move around natural materials like sand, water and stones by hand.

Providing a wide range of equipment that allows them to gather and transport materials to different areas of the nursery will not only help satisfy the two common schemas -transporting and assembly - but will also help develop children's understanding of quantity, capacity, number and distance.

Early years consultant and author of Understanding Schemas in Young Children - Again! Again! Stella Louis says, 'The transporting schema is such an important schema: one that needs thoughtful resourcing coupled with supportive practitioners who understand a child's need to freely move around and mix together natural materials and take on board themes that will stimulate all their senses.'

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