tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745241807539533199.post4469360133952837704..comments2024-03-28T16:50:21.790-07:00Comments on The Honorable Mention Preschool Blog: What if my preschool classroom set up isn't working?Barbra The Bloggesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05865022092066354784noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745241807539533199.post-50540748766901034282010-08-31T11:31:23.938-07:002010-08-31T11:31:23.938-07:00@ Dan
I like this idea! Appealing to the 5 senses....@ Dan<br />I like this idea! Appealing to the 5 senses...awesome!Barbra The Bloggesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05865022092066354784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745241807539533199.post-6988478126060589262010-08-31T11:29:30.397-07:002010-08-31T11:29:30.397-07:00@ Jenni
Good points Jenni! The only way to know in...@ Jenni<br />Good points Jenni! The only way to know in the beginning of the year how kids will interact with materials is to expose them to them...then we start to realize how kids play with materials. I have seen kids that know what to do with toys but will follow the crowd who doesn't. Either way, group dynamics plays a big part.<br />I have seen it work both ways with clean up. Only a handful (in my experience) loved cleaning without my help. But how the room is set up will also show kids how to clean up. At least the goal for me is to get them to take the most initiative...much of the time it does involve working with them during these times to help accomplish the goal.Barbra The Bloggesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05865022092066354784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745241807539533199.post-77798522326637762192010-08-30T19:01:19.838-07:002010-08-30T19:01:19.838-07:00Good points. Another idea: offer activities for di...Good points. Another idea: offer activities for different modalities: visual things, auditory things, movement things, touchy things (play dough), tasty things, etc.Dan Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628603380292404658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745241807539533199.post-61390993333462707282010-08-30T15:59:19.904-07:002010-08-30T15:59:19.904-07:00Are children taught HOW to play with the toys? So...Are children taught HOW to play with the toys? So many teachers just assume a child will know what to do with a shelf full of blocks. They don't, they need to be taught what to do with them.<br /><br />Are children made part of the clean up process or do the adults take care of it? If it's adults only, the children will always dump everything and leave it. I solved the "but I didn't play with that" by having clean up time in small groups. Each small group (each adult in the room had an assigned small group) were responsible for cleaning up specific areas in the classroom; this way, they quickly learned that it didn't matter if they were the ones to make the mess, keeping the classroom clean was everyone's job!Jennihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09315829092172760748noreply@blogger.com