SAND AND WATER TABLES

This is a blog for early childhood teachers looking for ways to expand and enrich play and learning in and around their sand and water tables with easy-to-make, low-cost apparatus. It may also be of interest for anyone who appreciates children's messy play.

Monday, October 7, 2024

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I will be presenting at the 2024 NAEYC conference in Anaheim, November 6 - 9th.  I will be talking about creating unlimited possibilities fo...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

Oobleck

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Because I am often asked what materials I use in my sand and water table, I am writing a series of posts about those materials.  I started ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Water beads

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Because I am often asked what materials I use in my sand and water table, I am writing a series of posts about those materials.  I started ...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Wood Pellets

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Because I am often asked what materials I use in my sand and water table, I am writing a series of posts about those materials.  I started ...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Corn

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Because I am often asked what materials I use in my sand and water table, I am writing a series of posts about those materials.  I started ...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Sand

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Because I am often asked what materials I use in my sand and water table, I am writing a series of posts about those materials.  I started ...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Sensory materials for the sand and water table.

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Because I am often asked what materials I used in my sand and water table, I will write a series of posts about those materials.  In a way, ...
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Tom Bedard
Early childhood education has been my life for over 40 years. I have taught all age groups from infants to 5-year-olds. I was a director for five years in the 1980s, but I returned to the classroom 22 years ago. My passion is watching the ways children explore and discover their world. In the classroom, everything starts with the reciprocal relationships between adults and children and between the children themselves. With that in mind, I plan and set up activities. But that is just the beginning. What actually happens is a flow that includes my efforts to invite, respond and support children's interface with those activities and with others in the room. Oh yeh, and along the way, the children change the activities to suit their own inventiveness and creativity. Now the processes become reciprocal with the children doing the inviting, responding and supporting. Young children are the best learners and teachers. I am truly fortunate to be a part of their journey.
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