CHECKERS (4 2/3 YRS OLD)

Last night, S played her first "real" game of checkers. Of course, there were many times where momma made it easy for S, by asking questions, like "What's gonna happen if you do that?." But it was the first time where she played and got the concept of jumping, blocking your opponents, and capturing your opponents. In fact, she won the game!

Several months ago, at the end of summer, momma tried teaching S the game, upon her insistent, but she was too impatient to learn and got too frustrated. But, momma thought to try again since she saw that Sarah was mastering Tic-Tac-Toe sufficiently. Momma notice that S was applying some strategy to her games of T-T-T. S would purposely block her opponent on T-T-T or have a plan in mind of where she wanted to go. She was also learning that sometimes you don't always win and play and play again.