If you have an infant, you have probably used similar links to hang their toys off of a stroller, for example. BUT, they can also be used for preschoolers. These 3-year-olds sorted these links by color and shape, made patterns with them, and used a large “pocket cube” to work on their turn-taking skills while playing a game whose goal was to have them complete a pattern…
I first learned about #magicnoodles in my 20s while teaching preschool, thanks to one of my favorite teacher friends, Cheryl Pinckney. Until just recently, I had forgotten about them but wow 😮 have I been missing out. What’s so special about them? You dab them with a damp cloth and they stick together, like magic, making any structure possible. In this case, we used the noodles to represent the brain…
So the last time I did this with littles, I was teaching Pre-K4 @adamerrittk8center in my 20s. It’s clearly been a while, and I also completely overdid it with the amount of shaving cream used. If I had used a palm full to cover the @webergrills pan instead of the exorbitant amount pictured here, it would have been more of a literacy activity than a sensory one. That…