As you visit our studio over time, you will notice how our play spaces change.  We use the environment as a third teacher, meaning we believe in the power of place to inform learning.  The physical environment, both the structure of the space and the materials within it, guide learning experiences, challenge children’s thinking, and help extend their understandings.  Our work is to provoke learning as we shift spaces.  How can a new material challenge children?  How might a new focusing question help children learn new skills, new ways of experimenting?  Keeping materials out for extended periods of time allow us to envision new possibilities.  Children naturally search for ways to add complexity to their thinking and teachers guide this process too!