Levin used my own daughter’s experience at daycare that day as an example. At the time, she was one and a half, and was finger painting in her class. That activity not only involved her ability to create an image on paper, Levin said, but the sensory feeling of the wet paint running down her arm, the visual learning of the colors mixing as she moved her fingers around the paint, the spatial learning when she moved her arm off the paper and the paint dripped onto the floor, and the social learning when she flung paint at another kid and they cried, and the teacher told her why that wasn’t cool
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