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| February 2014 |
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| February 2014 |
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| February 2014 |
Our sensory exploration started with us making sensory tubes: oil and water; feathers; food coloring, water, and baby oil. One of our youngest infants interacted most with the sensory tubes. This led to more water and sponge play. The first time, january, we introduced the water and sponged only one infant dared the water table. This time around, more children interacted with the sponges and the water table. Children interacted, communicated, splashed, and learned about water. Through water play children are learning about temperatures (warm and cold), capacity, gravity, water ways, filling and emptying.
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| February 2014 |
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Next we moved on to finger painting... As we touched the paint with our fingers and toes, one child did not want to touch the paint with her hands. She looked at the paint and placed her hands on her chest as she shook her head side to side. As she shook her head side to side, we showed her a paintbrush. She reached for the paintbrush and began moving the paintbrush side to side in the paint.
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| February 2014 |
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| February 2014 |
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| March 2014 |
In one of our areas in the classroom, we have a bucket with different sensory materials... cotton, soft material, rough material, etc. Children use these materials to touch them to each other's faces, in between their own toes, and on our hands. After seeing children explore these textures, we added feathers to our classroom. We added loose feathers and tied feathers to our mobile. With these feathers children touched, blew, and threw the feathers.
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| March 2014 |
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| March 2014 |
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| March 2014 |
Our last sensory exploration was sand play. We took the entire group of students to the art room where we explored sand. Children huddled around the sand table. Children touched and squeezed the sand. They lifted the sand up and let it fall back into the table. Some children smiled, while others were hard at work (very serious). One children reached both hands and arms into the sand; another gently touched the sand with her fingers; and another used one hand to life the sand and let it fall down onto his arm.
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| March 2014 |
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Throughout this six week sensory exploration, we also explored relationships with each other, problem solving, fine motor skills, communication, we are developing our individual approach to learning and we are building concepts.
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