| By Mira Tanna |
It’s Wednesday in the story room, and there is some calming music playing in the background while twenty toddlers are hard at work.
一个女孩用滴管挤有色水到咖啡过滤器。她在练习她的钳形抓握时，她开始写这将是有益的。“艾娃”还建设了科学推理的能力，看黄水变成白色的过滤器很浅的黄色，然后看着滤波器转微红的另一部分 - 惊喜！- 看到其中的两种颜色渗入对方变成橘红色的区域。艾娃的母亲在附近徘徊，确保艾娃不转储在地板上颜色的水，并帮助她通过把管道清洁剂在中间打开一个已经彩色滤光片成蝶。
Other kids are matching painted clothes pins to corresponding paint chips from the paint store. These children are learning to match and compare, honing their powers of observation as they differentiate between cerulean blue, azure and blueberry.
The most popular table has sandboxes—five plastic bins filled with sand. Using common kitchen utensils like spatulas, strainers and ladles, kids dig up painted pasta, buttons and other surprises buried in the sand. Children are using problem solving skills:How can I separate the colored pasta from the surrounding sand? Which tools work best to accomplish this task? And wow – that shower of sand raining down from the slotted spoon is sure cool!