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In a message dated 5/29/2002 8:09:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Some of our greatest successes here with just leaving things out has been a
> visitor (adult or kid) who knows something cool to do with or to explain
> about the thing (puzzles, magnets, building stuff, prism, magnifying
> lenses,
> whatever it is) and whose contributions change everyone around them! That
> knowledge is added to the richness of that item, for the next time it comes
>
> out.

I told about digging out the pattern blocks. THis reminded me of when I got
them out some years ago -- they were new. My kids and dh and myself played
with them all evening and had a GREAT time. The next morning a friend was
here - a 9 yo friend. He started playing with them in an ENTIRELY different
way - building 3-dimensional things. We'd ALL been stuck in the level of
building flat things - not one of us had built upward!!!!

--pamS


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