Children Know

Trusting Children to choose the work that is right for them, I roamed around the classroom the other day taking pictures of some of the work that the children were engaged in. I was struck by the many different ways that the children were practicing fine motor skills. Whether it was making cut out butterflies, coloring salt by grinding chalk into it, doing a metal inset or digging for dinosaur bones; these children were very absorbed in completing the tasks they had chosen. The children were all practicing fine motor skills and concentration but they were all doing it in different ways. If children can learn how to choose activities that challenge and interest them this will set them up for success later on.