SMARTY-PANTS

Last week we were doing a weather theme in Playschool. One of my 3-year-olds was playing a board game with me and two other children. You had to spin to see how many spaces to move. As you went around the board, you landed on spaces that indicated one of four types of weather - sunny, rainy, windy or snowy. Everyone had a set of playing cards representing those four types of weather. Each time you landed on a space, you had to turn over the card that represented the weather of the space you landed on. This one child had only one card left and he had figured out how many spaces he needed to move to win, so he spun the spinner and it landed on the wrong number. So he spun it again. Still not the number he needed. The third time, he just turned the spinner to the number he needed and won the game. His dad was watching him and thought that he shouldn't cheat like that. I was just stunned at how clever he was (at THREE YEARS OLD!) to figure it all out!