Why Are Sensory Activities Important? Sensory activities are all over the internet, including Pinterest and many terrific kids activity blogs. But what’s the real advantage to setting up sensory activities for kids, other than a way to keep them occupied? When a child takes in information via touching, tasting, smelling, and hearing different things, her brain is creating new neuro-connections and pathways. These same pathways are then used for learning other things like reading and solving…

Canadian photographer Todd McLellan makes visible the inner workings of everyday products by dismantling, carefully arranging the components and photographing them

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Sandringham Primary School consists of a number of refurbished flexible learning spaces across all year levels. Through our school’s shared vision, we aim to create a learning community which provides students and families with a smooth transition through the various stages of school. SPS provides a stimulating and secure learning environment, with a wide variety of effective resources to ensure seamless transition through and connectedness to school. These photographs remain the property of…

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I must admit. I am sooooo lucky. I work in a school where my colleagues are striving to bring amazing educational environments. Jennifer Dean, a kindergarten teacher, has created pure magic in her classroom. I just had to share! Let's go take a peek. . . Loose parts in the Math Center -- I love how beautifully Jennifer presented these. Here is a view of the math center and the table with the loose parts. A math activity tray. Weight. Jen did the coolest thing with her light table. You can't…

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Tinker table Credit: Havenview PS - Tasmania

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I’ll never forget the excitement I felt the first time I disassembled a telephone. I was eight years old, on our back porch with just an old screwdriver and a pair of pliers, but seeing what was inside this everyday object was a discovery akin to unearthing a dinosaur. The sudden knowledge that the

Tinkering table

Every man my age was once a boy who wished he had a pinball machine of his very own. I'm not a pinball wizard by any means, but the main reason that I stop off at Zesto's for a burger every now and then is that while I wait for "chef" to cook it, I get in a couple rounds on my favorite Fun House pinball machine, which I did a few nights ago on the way to a meeting. Yesterday, the children were playing with our marble run and right beside them stood our super sized marble paintings (as…

Children need to discover their own challenges and then solve them.