ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the paperwork that has been developed as a way of recording some of the teaching cycles that occur thousands of times each day in a setting where children are initiating their own play. In the simplest terms, the children are all initiating their own play and the adults are interacting with all the children, teaching next steps as often as possible. For older children, the focus of the teaching might be very different, but the teaching cycle is the same. Whenever anyone is observing child-initiated play, it is important to have a member of the staff team with them in order to point out the progress being made and the “teaching” that enabled the progress to happen. Within an enabling environment and with all this wonderful teaching, the children will start to do things independently and when such moments are observed they might be referred to as “Wow!” moments.
