Provide opportunities for hands-on investigations. Encourage children's suggestions and solutions. Allow children to find their own solutions. Use literature as a springboard. If it doesn't work, they may give up in frustration.
Fours have more patience and are able to try out multiple solutions to a problem.
Developing language skills enable fours to share their ideas and approach problems cooperatively. Every day, you can hear the voices of children facing and solving problems throughout your classroom. As children confront these seemingly small issues, they're developing and applying important thinking, social, and emotional skills. Kindergartners are much more likely to be able to withstand a period of frustration as they confront and work though a difficult problem. By kindergarten, children become more adept at thinking about a solution to a problem without actually trying it out.