Beginning to Build Concepts: Problem Solving

Teachers help children hold their bottle, first. As we are helping children hold their own bottle we are also holding their hands at midline to encourage them to hold their own bottle.

Learning to hold her own bottle

Usually, we stick these magnets together or onto the door. Today, one child place the magnet on the seat of the chair and the magnet fell to the floor. Then she placed the magnet on the side of the chair, the magnet stuck! She placed another and another, then she place one onto the other. It stuck!

Problem solving by finding different places for the magnets

Magnet Play

After seeing children building on their problem solving skills, we added a string of different materials to the classroom. Using this string children would be able to spin the toys, and to move the toys back and forth; one by one or all together. At first, children were shaking the rope to make noise. When we welcomed a new child into our classroom, she moved each toy on the string individually from one end of the string to the other end. After seeing her do this, the other children began to do the same.

Building concepts and problem solving

Learning the the toys on the string can move from side to side

Spinning the toys