Parents often ask what their child will do for 45 minutes. The honest answer is: the same experiment a scientist would, scaled to a five year old. Here is a typical Tinker Tots session.
Minutes 0 to 5: gear up
Everyone gets a lab coat and goggles. The teacher shows the question for the day on the board, this week it was 'why does a balloon rocket go faster with more air?', and each child guesses out loud.
Minutes 5 to 35: the experiment
Each child has a station with a string, a straw, tape and three balloons. They build the rocket, launch it, measure how far it went with a tape measure, and try again with more or less air. The teacher moves between stations asking what changed.
- Every child does the whole experiment, not a turn each.
- Mistakes are the point: a rocket that doesn't launch gets fixed, not replaced.
- Measurements go into their own lab notebook.
Minutes 35 to 45: what did we find?
The group compares distances and works out that more air means more push. The teacher links it to real rockets in one sentence, and everyone takes their rocket home with a challenge: can a longer string make it go further?
That is the shape of every class, whatever the age. The experiments get harder, the shape stays the same.
Easier to see it than read about it
Book a class for your child's age group, or walk in any day for AED 139 and see how they take to it.