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10 • • • • Thinking • • • • Thinking emerges while babies are using their senses to discover the world. Encourage babies to explore. Create an environment that promotes natural curiosity. Support babies’ growing memory and ability to understand new ideas. • • • • contributor to the group. Celebrate and value cultural, religious and community events and experiences. Provide opportunities for young children to see people and things beyond their classroom, including the activities of older children. Share pictures of children’s families, friends, pets or favourite people. Talk to children about their friends, their families, and why they are important. Challenge students’ thinking by asking questions. Encourage them to describe what they see around them and what wonders they have. Use a lot of sensory activities to define change. Encourage students to explore objects and toys in different ways. • • • • • • themselves in their home language. Encourage students to develop positive relationships with community members, such as fire fighters, nurses. Provide ways of preserving memories of special events collecting pictures, drawing and writing. Define the rationale and practice for learning to think critically and apply critical thinking skills to learning. Prove with evidence: Test viewpoints by providing convincing evidence. Claims with criteria: encourage students to make claims about the topic or ideas. Relate: Make