1/4/2024 0 Comments Light table manipulatives![]() When children build at the Block Center they explore with their imagination while recreating ‘The First Thanksgiving’. Take a look at what your little one is learning by playing in our classroom centers this month! The classroom mailbox is located at this center as well! This center has different, fun writing utensils and a new word wall! The students can practice writing new words or writing letters to friends. This center allows students to put parts together and create different objects. There is currently a superhero theme in the tower! There are many books, superhero cars, action figures and more! This center resembles a home environment and lets students use their imaginations to take care of baby dolls. Students can read books or listen to them on tape in our comfy library center. It really brings out the students’ imaginations and creativity. There are many forest themed animals and different natural blocks to use at this center. Taylor made pumpkin scented play dough for the art center! Students can make shapes and prints in the play dough. Students can practice identifying their letters and forming words on the light table. We have changed out our centers in the preschool and kprep room for the month of October! Here are a few of the centers below. We practiced writing to letter Z in all different sizes! We used circle stickers to make the letter Z. We used magnetic fishing poles to catch a fish and read the number and color on the fish. We went fishing for number fish in small groups. In small groups, we worked on our fine motor skills and placed marbles onto a suction cup fish. In our sensory tub this month we have sand, shovels, buckets, and shells that allow children to play, scoop and build. They can use their imagination and build with the blocks or try to recreate one of the structures in a picture. This month we have the light table in our room. The block center contains loose parts including pool noodles, blocks, animals, and seaweed that allow children to use their imagination and build. ![]() We finished learning about our last letter in the alphabet- Z!Ĭreating an ocean scene at the block center. We started our unit with learning all about oceans and the animals that live in oceans. Throughout the month of May we are learning about oceans and ponds. We have been talking about classifying and sorting objects by different attributes (color, shape, size, number of sides, etc.) What I was witnessing was the children taking what they had learned in small groups and applying it to their other classroom experiences. Today as I walked by our light table I overheard a child saying, “Let’s count the squares! While the other child responded, “I’ll count the diamonds then we can count them together!” They were referring to various translucent geometric shapes that had been placed on the light table for the children to manipulate. After researching the various ways these could benefit preschool age children in their learning process, we decided to get one for our own classroom. Every classroom had one and I began to wonder what they were all about. The first time I saw a light table was at a Reggio Emilia inspiried preschool in New York City. These should be great experiences for your children and ones that they will not soon forget. Here are some of the activities that may take place at our light table this year: building our names and sight words with special translucent letter tiles, exploring and creating colors with color paddles, using various stencils, using the light table to trace our letters and names, manipulating shapes to become more aware of spacial relationships through the use of translucent geometric pieces while discovering the basics of geometry, viewing x-rays of various types of animals and shells, and finger painting on parchment paper (just to name a few). In the coming months we will be using the light table for a multitude of activities as well as free choice play with ever changing manipulatives. Our light table allows children to experience everyday objects in a whole new way. Every classroom that we visited had one and I began to wonder what they were all about.
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