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, April 28, 2011

BOX TOWER - DINOSAUR MOUNTAIN - PLAY

›

What kind of play would you expect to see with a dinosaur mountain? Dinosaur play, of course. Dinosaur play can be boisterous. What...

7 comments:

Thursday, April 21, 2011

BOX TOWER - DINOSAUR MOUNTAIN

›

Last October I wrote about BOX TOWERS here , here , and here . I finally got around to making my yearly BOX TOWER a few weeks ago. I hav...

8 comments:

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Horizontal Channels and the Infectiousness of Play

›

Play throughout the classroom can be infectious at times. Sometimes you can see clearly where it starts and how it quickly progresses. Som...

Thursday, April 7, 2011

HORIZONTAL CHANNELS AND PLAY

›

This horizontal channel apparatus that rests on top of the sensory table lends itself nicely to play with cars and trucks, especially cons...

3 comments:

Thursday, March 31, 2011

HORIZONTAL CHANNELS

›

A few years ago, our site ordered a new easel. Though it was nice to get a new easel, I wanted the box. It was a large flat box. The ques...

4 comments:

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

VERTICAL TUBES IN A BOX - OTHER NOTES

›

There are a couple of additional notes to go along with this apparatus . 1) If you change the material in the table, you change the activit...

2 comments:

Thursday, March 17, 2011

VERTICAL TUBES IN A BOX - MORE EXPLORATION

›

If you look at last week's post you will see two boys making accommodations so both can play in the same space. They were not cooperat...

2 comments:

‹

›

Home

View web version

About Me

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.

View my complete profile