Tess loves puzzles right now. She can do a 24 piece puzzle by herself after doing it with us many times to learn it. I'm really interested in how she sees puzzles. She really can't see the shapes. I have tried numerous times to teach her the concept of the edge and the corner of the puzzles, but she can't see it. She works from the pictures, and she's becoming more perceptive about color connections on the edges of the pieces.
She has a block puzzle with 16 pieces that we do together sometimes. There are 6 puzzles total--each side of the cubes have a different puzzle. But what's interesting about this puzzle is that 12 of the total pieces have a border on them. Each time we do the puzzle together, I try to show her that the border has to touch the wooden edge, and yet she still can't grasp the concept. Today she seemed closer to understanding it than I've ever noticed before, and so I tried reinforcing the idea over and over as we worked on the puzzle. She quickly became frustrated, and I think it's because she still can't see what I'm talking about.
It's so interesting to me that she can't see what I see. I'm really curious when it will click.
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