The emphasis is on choice, decisions, process, and not product. Open-ended materials are especially important because they allow many approaches, thus reaching students of varying interests. They stimulate long engagement, increasing focus and attention, and enlarging the capacity to learn. Primarily, students focus their learning by working with art, sensory play, nature/ outdoor play, math, language and emergent reading/ writing, music, yoga, and woodworking.
"I like to fly in the helicopter. (He made a large helicopter with his friends that they could get into and fly around the playground) Playing in the class, stacking blocks on the light table. I like to make a huge, giant dragon on the light table."
-Fitch, age 3