Sensory activities

Here are a few things your child is learning when "playing" with sensory materials:

Sensory Development

(Sand, water table and other sensory materials)

Experiment with measuring tools and vocabulary

Awareness and conversation of volume, mass, shape, liquid, solid

Co-operation, sharing, turn taking

Vocabulary development and reinforcement (full, empty, more, less heavy, light)

Classification (sinks/floats)

Hand eye coordination, fine motor control

Creativity and design

Here are a few examples of the fun sensory activities we have done!

Our water table filled with the pumpkin seeds that we scooped out of our pumpkin. Can you guess how many we counted?

Our sand table with dinosaur bones sand molds.

Our water table with blue and clear gems with various sea and pond creatures!

A rainbow pasta bin. The children used clothes pins to pick up the pasta.  (great fine motor activity to strengthen their pincer grasp)

Bin filled with coffee grinds and insects. It smelled really nice too!

Here is our Halloween bin filled with black beans and orange lentils. It had bats and spiders, and small pumpkins to fill with a spoon.

Water table filled with 2D shapes and tweezers and baskets for sorting.

Mrs Desjardins, our ECE student, prepared an I spy Halloween sensory bin filled with fish tank rocks and various Halloween characters. The children had to find all the different characters following a visual list. 

(ex. 3 spiders, 4 skeletons etc.)