Today there was a great example of: perseverance, thinking things through and problem solving. There were 3 boys doing a stamping story work ("The Cat on the Mat"). This is where they read the story and use stamps to re-create it. The goat, for one of the boys, would not stamp completely on the paper. He persevered and kept re-stamping it to no avail. So the other two kept brain-storming what he could do differently to get it to work. After many tries of different ideas (keeping it on the pad longer, moving it around on the pad more, etc) and one of the other boy's getting theirs to work, they figured out the best way. We tend to forget how important problem solving and discovery is for the children - many times feeling like we have to provide the answer. This was a great reminder for me to let them discover and problem solve and to not jump in unless asked!
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