home. First under the watchful eyes of an adult, and then alone in a setting that adults may have created partially for our safe use (yard, garden, play area), we dig, break sticks, pick up leaves, watch insects, climb trees, and create river systems in the sandbox.РBackРtranslateРText StudyРPre-ReadingРAfter-ReadingРPara. 1c We learn what the world outside is made of; we learn how we can manipulate it to satisfy our questioning minds, our sensing fingertips, our excitement-seeking emotions. We play at now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t, at first through peek-a boo, and then by running ahead in the park and bouncing out from behind a bush, then by playing hide-and-seek with our friends, and, finally, by creating a secret place (cubby, den, hideout) which our parents may not ever know about.РBack