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, July 27, 2013

RUMINATIONS ON A TRAY

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Two weeks ago I wrote a post called  Ruminations on a Bucket .  A simple, five-gallon bucket had a profound effect on my practice and the fl...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

BUCKETS AND PAILS AND TUBS, OH MY!

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Last week's post was called  Ruminations on a Bucket .   Twenty-five years ago I realized that by placing a bucket next to the sand tabl...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

RUMINATIONS ON A BUCKET

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Three years ago, I started blogging about the apparatus I build for the sand and water table in my preschool classroom.  In this...
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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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