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.

Friday, July 31, 2015

THOUGHTS ON TANGENTIAL

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Axiom #7 on the right-hand column of this blog states: Children will always devise new and novel activities and explorations with the materi...

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Saturday, July 25, 2015

PEGBOARD PLATFORM 2

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In March of 2013, I introduced the Pegboard Platform . This is an apparatus made with a piece of pegboard the corners of which are embedde...

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

SNOW SAUCER SANDBOX

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In Minnesota, we have a fair amount of snow in the winter. One of the great winter activities is sliding down hills on all kinds of apparat...

Saturday, July 11, 2015

MAKING SENSE OF AN APPARATUS

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The last two weeks I have written about the same apparatus: Piggyback Inclines . Here is the apparatus. This is what you need to know...

Sunday, July 5, 2015

A NEW FEATURE TO KEEP DOWN THE MESS

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Piggyback Inclines are two large chute-like boxes taped together and set over the sensory table on a pitch. I could have aligned the boxes...

Saturday, June 27, 2015

PIGGYBACK INCLINES

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The Piggyback Inclines apparatus is a variation on the Big Box Incline and the Big Box Incline with an Added Element I do not...

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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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