Children Need Stimulation

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Four year old Natalya wanders into the block corner where three other children are building. She takes an armful of blocks off the shelf and dumps them on the floor. She starts to pile them, one on top of the other, until the structure gets too high and falls. Natalya leaves the block area and ignores Tommy when he says, "Hey, you didn't put the blocks away and they're in our way!" She wanders into the house corner where she sits on a small rocking chair and looks around. When Dwayne returns the doll carriage, Natalya takes it and pushes the carriage around the room. She then wanders over to the table toy shelf, selects a puzzle, and dumps the pieces out on the rug. Unable to make the pieces fit, she pushes the unfinished puzzle under the table and gets up. Natalya's next stop is the art area. She picks up a paint brush loaded with paint at the easel and makes a series of dots on the clean newsprint. Natalya fills up the paper quickly, then leaves the area. Running into the teacher, she complains, "I'm bored. ...