Who knew you could have so much fun and learn so much with bubbles? During science exploration, students learned how bubbles are made and practiced using their mouths to create them. We discussed and explored spatial relations and directions. Children predicted the direction the bubbles would move and observed together as the wind carried them away! Students listened to and engaged in several exchanges of conversation with others about their discovery of bubbles!
Fine motor skills are the first steps in helping our children prepare for writing. Here a student practices squeezing an ice cream scooper while working with foam shapes. Students participated in several learning activities with the shapes including pattern building, sorting, counting, and imaginative play.
While working with a peg board, this student is reinforcing his fine motor skills and the manipulative movements involving object-handling. These skills along with left to right movement are important in developing pre-litercy skills. Students can develop the routine of building left to right. This student arranged the pegs in order of size and created towers in a growing pattern (smallest to biggest). Later while describing his work, he used seriation terms (tall, taller, tallest, etc.) and communicated the concepts that he learned.
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