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, November 30, 2013

TALL CARDBOARD TUBES AND ROPES

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Back in June of 2011, Juliet from  Creative Star Learning  in Scotland, wrote a piece about using real ropes in a post she called:  A rope t...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

COMBINING APPARATUS

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I want to thank all those who attended my presentation this morning at the  National Association for the Education of Young Children(NAEYC)...
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

BIG BOX

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I am in the process of finalizing my presentation on sand and water tables for the National Association for the Education of Young Children(...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

CARDBOARD CHUTES-CLOSED EDITION

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 CARDBOARD CHUTES - CLOSED VERSION I am in the process of...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

PROFILE PICTURE

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I am in the process of finalizing my presentation for the National Association of Young Children Annual Conference for the third week in No...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

WELCOMING---A SEQUEL

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Last month I wrote a piece about children  feeling welcome  in the classroom. It was mostly about what we as staff do at school to make fami...
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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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