Scenario
Dominica, aged three years and ten months, is playing at a low-level sand tray in the garden. She is alone and focusing intently on her hands as she squeezes sand through them. The sand is fine and dry and there is nothing else in the tray. She raises her hands and lets the sand trickle through her fingers.
Next she lifts a handful of sand and throws it out of the tray. She takes another handful and throws it up as well as out of the tray. She rubs her hands in the sand that has fallen on the ground, inspects the palm of one hand and removes some grit from it using her thumb and forefinger. Her attention returns to the sand tray, where she begins making a line through the sand with her left-hand index finger, working right to left.
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