Check out Salt & Pepper, our lovely guinea pigs. Our children really love to feed them food and brush them keeping them healthy. Looking after the animals helps them to learn the correct way to interact with them and most importantly, children are so interested in them!
"Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and therefore the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child, who lives as a rule for the passing moment and without care for the morrow, so much as this."
Maria Montessori
The Discovery of the Child, p. 73
