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Bringing brain development 101 to kids who miss preschool [SCPR.org]

 

In a small room at the Pico Union Library on a recent Friday morning, Marissa Gonzalez and her 3-year-old squished gooey, green blobs of colored shaving cream onto big swaths of paper. 

Gonzalez is mother of three and she gave up her job as a special education teacher to be at home with her young children. She has been trying to get her youngest child into preschool, but while she waits for a spot, they spend a lot of time together at home. Gonzalez joined this group at the library, called Book Sprouts, as a way to get out and meet other parents and children.

Along the way, she’s also learning some cool projects to help pass the time at home with her son.

“I try, but as a mom what I do at home is different,” Gonzalez said. “I never would have thought to use shaving cream. I mean, wow!”

But the activity was not meant simply to pass the time: more importantly, the painting exercise showed Gonzalez and the other parents that children as young as two can grasp simple color-mixing theory. Squirt some red food coloring with some blue food coloring, add some shaving cream and glue, and presto: purple paint! Squishing the paint onto the paper required fine motor control. And as the children painted, the facilitators pointed out the learning going on.





[For more of this story, written by Deepa Fernandes, go to http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/...to-kids-who-miss-pr/]

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