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Sand & Water Play
Our classroom is small and it does not provide enough room to
support a sand & water table. So we solved our problem and purchased a supply of large dish pans.
The children can place the dish pans on top of tables.
When
I Play with Water I am Learning: *That some things sink and some things float.
*To observe changes as water takes different form in different containers.
*About different temperatures.
*About
wet, dry and Evaporation.
*What happens when you add soap.
*Eye-hand coordination as I learn to pour.
*Concepts
of empty and full, volume and weight, mathematics.
When
I Play with Sand I am Learning:
*To exercise my imagination.
*Concepts of size, shape and
volume, empty and full.
*How to use tools.
*Concepts of warm and cool, wet, damp and dry, heavy and light.
*How
to play socially with others.
*To create systems for classifying, ordering & arranging-skills used in math.
*To
create my own patterns and symbols, skill used in reading and writing.
*To observe changes, a science skill.
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