With Building Blocks, Educators Going Back to Basics – NYTimes.com

An article to share – more of why I love my blocks….

Huddled together on the reading rug of a prekindergarten classroom on the Upper West Side, three budding builders assembled a multilayered church with a Gothic arch. Nearby, another block artist created a castle with a connecting courtyard. Meanwhile, a fifth toiled earnestly on a shaky tower, eliciting oohs and aahs from across the room when it came tumbling down.

via With Building Blocks, Educators Going Back to Basics – NYTimes.com.