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.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

TRAYS IN A BOX

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I do not always plan out what I am going to build before I actually start building. I often have a general idea, but only when I start the ...

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

MULTIPLE TRAYS=MORE PLAY

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Last week I wrote a post on Multiple Trays . In that post I enumerated all the different physical levels on which the children could and di...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

MULTIPLE TRAYS - MULTIPLE LEVELS

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Back in September of 2010, I wrote about a set of apparatus called Multiple Trays . In that post, I included the following apparatus. (I...

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

GIANT SPONGE - NEW AXIOM

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This is the time of year I bring out the Giant Sponge. What is a giant sponge? It is a piece of foam cut from a foam mattress to fit into ...

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Friday, January 27, 2012

PUT IT IN THE BUCKET

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Back in July of 2010, my second post on this blog was called: 5 GALLON PAIL . The gist of the post was that there is always a bucket next ...

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

HORIZONTAL CHANNELS REVISITED

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One of my favorite sensory apparatus is the Horizontal Channels. This apparatus is a large box that is long, flat, and narrow and has one...

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

TABLE COVERING WITH HOLES: USING A NEW MEDIUM

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I specifically built the Table Covering with Holes out of wood because I also wanted to use it for water play. Since I still wanted to co...

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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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