Week in Review
September 22-26th
Exploring the sand
Over the past two weeks, the children have shown a great interest in the sand. The children have developed several different ideas about how they can manipulate the sand. Diego, Ivan, Victor, Rayan and Lauren started to develop strategies about how they can build with the sand. While Lilly, Jenna and Ibrahim were interested in creating pathways in the sand.
Ms. Mehl provoked the children's thinking with clear plastic cups. As the children explored the plastic cups in the white sand many of them were focused on filling and dumping their cups. While in the wet outdoor sand the children enjoyed filling the cups up and turning them upside down. When they pulled their cups upwards they noticed a tall structure in the sand that resembled the shape of their cup.
We wanted to build on this idea of pathways so we placed a small amount of white sand on the blue art trays and offered the children combs, toothbrushes and paintbrushes. The children observed as the paintbrush and/or comb created positive and negative spaces on the blue trays. They noticed how the paint brush created large spaces, while the comb created small lines.
