How do play schools go about achieving this goal? A play school  even helped mothers toilet-train their children. At this stage, children learn best by observation. At home, this kind of learning is not at an optimum level.  In a play school the supervisors focus on teaching children the age-appropriate  behavior through observation and imitation."  The school has a language and listening room, a motor skills room and a drama and theater room. In the motor skills room for instance, children are made to pour water from one tumbler into another and then repeat this exercise using a funnel.