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, June 28, 2014

TRAINING IN THE UK

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I have finished my training tour in the UK. I must say that I have gotten a little tired of hearing myself talk. What I did not get tired ...

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Saturday, June 21, 2014

IN THE HOTEL IN EDINBURGH

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I did not think that I would do any original building posts on my trip to the UK and the Netherlands. I did a building workshop up in Aberde...

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

THE NORTH SEA

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What does the North Sea have to do with Sand and Water Tables? This blog, Sand and Water Tables, has brought me to the North Sea. I am in...

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Saturday, June 7, 2014

BOXES IN BOXES - BRIDGE REVISITED

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Next week at this time I will be in the Scotland at the beginning of three weeks of presentations in the UK and the Netherlands on sand and ...

Saturday, May 31, 2014

CLOSED CARDBOARD CHUTES - EXPERIMENTATION

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In June I will be traveling for three weeks to the UK and the Netherlands to do several presentations on sand and water play. At this point...

Saturday, May 24, 2014

CLOSED CHUTES REVISITED

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In June I will be traveling for three weeks to the UK and the Netherlands to do several presentations on sand and water play. For the next...

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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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