Concentration: cultivate through
(a) providing environment and material that foster exercise of spontaneous interests in handling, examining, experimenting, constructing;
(b) avoiding interruption when child is attentive to an action, unless for important reason such as physical regimen, danger of fatigue or satiety;
(c) Correlating interests into an organized play, e.g., building of a doll’s house; playing store; telling or dramatizing of a continued story, lasting for days or weeks (after two years);
(d) Giving a direction, request or command only once, and requiring attention and prompt response.
Æsthetic Appreciation: Rhythm acquired through hearing of rhythmic songs, music, chanting of nonsense or poetry; and through rhythmic plays, marching, dancing
Taste for good songs, music, pictures, color combinations, simplicity, orderliness, harmony, cultivated by good examples in housekeeping, furnishings, decorations, clothing, books, toys, music in home
Experimentation with color, modeling material, rhythm, musical sounds