We’ve been working hard at fostering independence, perseverance and a sense of community in our classroom by encouraging each other to try things on our own and/or to ask friends for help or ideas (rather than going straight to a teacher.) There are so many small things that we, as grownups, take for granted. One of the gifts of working with young children in ways that allow them to discover on their own is that we get to revisit a variety of small things that we assume we al