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.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

PROFILE PICTURE

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I would like to explain the picture I chose for my profile.  The picture does not speak directly to sand and water tables, but rather my vie...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

THINGS FROZEN IN ICE - EXPERIMENTATION

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Experimenting with  things frozen in ice highlights the unique characteristics of ice. First of all, there is the elemental change of state...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

TRAY AND THINGS FROZEN IN ICE

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It Minnesota it is cold in the winter.  Things can get frozen in ice easily.  That may be where the idea came from to freeze things in ice a...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

A QUESTION FROM A CONFERENCE ABOUT HOARDING IN THE SENSORY TABLE

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This past weekend, I gave a conference presentation on ways of expanding play and learning in and around the sensory table.  During the pres...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

CARDBOARD CHUTES-CLOSED-EXPERIMENTATION

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Experimentation with closed chutes in some ways looks like the experimentation with open chutes.  For that description look at the post from...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

CARDBOARD CHUTES - 2 - CLOSED VERSION

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If you look at the DIMENSIONS in the right column of this blog, the first CARDBOARD CHUTES posted in this blog (November 26th posting) fell ...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

A REVISIT TO THE DIVIDERS: FLOW OF PLAY

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Here is an attempt to show the flow of play in and around the dividers. Note that there are no limits on the number of children at the ta...
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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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