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.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

COLORADO EVENT

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I want thank Janiece Kneppe Walter and Kathleen DeVries, the EC faculty at Red Rocks Community College in Denver, for doing such a wonderful...

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Monday, April 22, 2013

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT

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For those of you who follow my blog in the Denver area, I will be speaking there this Saturday at an event hosted by the Early Childhood Ed...

Saturday, April 20, 2013

BIG BOX INCLINE-WARDROBE BOX

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This past summer, we moved my uncle from Florida to Minnesota. The moving company has a type of big sturdy box that is called a wardrobe bo...

Saturday, April 13, 2013

OOBLECK PLATFORM

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What is an Oobleck Platform? A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Pegboard Platform . Whereas the Pegboard Platform handles a dry medium li...

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

PAINTING SNOW

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The second week in February we still had a good bit of snow in Minnesota. In fact, we just got rid of most of the snow on the ground the la...

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

FACEBOOK

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A couple of months ago I got an email from an Australian fellow named Alec Duncan from Child's Play Music , an excellent blog about brin...

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

WHY?

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When I look over pictures and videos I have taken of the children working in and around an apparatus at the sensory table, I often ask: ...

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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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