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Providing young children with an enriched early learning environment will vary, as I believe all educators have a different opinion and ideal structure. Therefore I am going to outline how I would structure my learning environment for my students and why.

First of all the most important aspects is to provide the children with an enriched literacy and numeracy early learning environment. The use of Technology, toys, blocks, paint and educators cognitive output is elements, which will have an impact on the child literacy and numeracy learning. I also believe that by including family members into the environment as much as possible will enhance there ability as to how they can have an influence upon the child’s early learning of literacy and numeracy out of care hours. I as a future educator feel that the teaching technique structured around play, and for the focus of activities to be child driven.  I strongly emphasize the children driven play with guidance of educators as I believe children are a lot smarter than what many think and we often can underestimate a child’s thinking. I will provide the children with guidance through setting up the environment suited for what my aim is for the day or session. I will then let the day lead itself in regards to the children. I will provide the children with a lot of options and suggestions in order for them to enhance and explore the use of literacy and numeracy. The children’s work and informative posters I will have positioned around the room to help create a fun environment and to also show family members the children’s creations and it will help create the environment I am wanting to achieve. I as an early childhood educator also believe that the early learning of a young child’s numeracy and literacy can be significantly enhanced by having an opened mind and allowing the young children to interact with both themselves and other children. This will help to develop the child’s early numeracy learning through the development of communication skills and exploring others features, which can help the children to identify what they look and feel. Things like texture of their skin, hair, nails, there facial features and a child’s actions can spark another child’s thinking, which leads to numeracy and literacy learning.