"It is through others that we develop into ourselves." - Lev Vygotsky
Children are innately drawn to engage in social interactions with peers.
And while the beginning of a new school year is always an exciting time of meeting new friends and building relationships, this year seems quite different. After a time of quarantine and social distancing from the novel Covid-19, each conversation, each touch, and every interaction in our classroom seems so much more significant.
Our indoor and outdoor classroom environments at SVK provide diverse opportunities to develop and cultivate important relationships among friends.
The process of navigating peer interactions such as conversations, negotiating materials, and problem solving can all strengthen children’s relationships with one another. These relationships can help facilitate personal growth by helping the children better understand themselves as individuals in a peer setting while also learning to work together to achieve common goals.
It has been so beautiful to watch these little friends create and cultivate these new relationships in the midst of a global pandemic.
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