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, March 23, 2019

March Madness II

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March Madness is in full swing in the USA. The big tournament has begun that will crown a college basketball national champion. As I ment...

Saturday, March 9, 2019

March Madness

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This time of year in the USA, there are a lot of college basketball games on TV, all leading up to a national championship. It is called Ma...

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Enhancing play and exploration

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I am spending some time these days going over my digital pictures and videos to tag them. I have over 30,000 images so it is quite a task, ...

Saturday, February 9, 2019

Classroom rules

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I am rule-adverse. I never set about making rules when something happened in the classroom that I did not like or when there was a conflict...

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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Water level - depends

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A colleague asked me recently if I had ever done a post on the ideal level of water for the water table. My answer was: no. However, that ...

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Monday, December 31, 2018

Picture of the year

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Every year I designate one of the pictures I have taken as my "picture of the year." Since I am not in the classroom anymore, I h...

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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Conference thoughts part 2

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This post is a continuation of my last post . Recently, I wrote that when practitioners go to conference sessions, they often look for acti...

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About Me

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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