On today after a few children had already arrived to school the teacher had materials set out on the table. She told the children, "were going to make playdough." There was one boy and two girls their to help create with the teacher. The materials present were oil, salt, flour, boiling water, large mixing bowl, spoon and water color bottles. The teacher allowed each child to scoop either the flour or salt into the mixing bowl. After each scoop they also stirred the ingredients the poured into the mixing bowl. At first the teacher counted out loud while the children were pouring the scoops and then a child started to out as he waited for his turn to come. After trying to add the red and blue food coloring to make purple playdough the teacher said, "I'm not going to use this because it's going to make black again, I'm going to use the water colors." The children was done putting the ingredients in and watched the teacher as she added the color and poured the boiling water into the mixing bowl which had all the ingredients in it. A child responded, "We can't touch that, it's hot." Then the teacher said, "It's very hot." The teacher stirred and stirred the materials together. When she was done she gave each child a portion of the their own to explore with. Another teacher put the bucket of tools to roll and smash the playdough but the teacher who made the playdough with the children told her its not a good idea because the playdough is fresh and its going to stick to the tools. So they removed them from the table.
The developmental skills the children were using was math, science, turn taking, communication skills, motor skills, and cognitive skills.
To further the development or interest of the children as the teacher I would, tomorrow I would set out the playdough and add the tools to the table because they it helps them develop their motor skills and use their creative minds when creating with the playdough. I would also explain why we couldn't use the tools with the playdough the following day.
Making playdough can be so messy but its so much fun to all the children. The children are able to explore the texture and so much more.
ReplyDeleteSounds good, they didn't get to play with the tools to create different shapes since the playdoh was fresh and I'm glad that if you were the teacher you would give them a reason as to why they didn't get to do it the day before and they will be satisfied. There were many developmental skills required to make the playdoh, its awesome how they can have so much fun and learn at the same time.
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