Sensory Week

This week is sensory week at AoFC! We are diving in and getting our hands messy as we learn through play. Sensory week was kicked off with a fun cloud dough activity. Teachers were able to make a fluffy, cloud-like substance for our friends to explore by touching it, playing with it, and talking about what they see and feel. Tuesday was all about water beads. This one was a hug hit! The kids were able to feel the squishy beads through their hands. They figured out that the beads were wet and that they could smash them, bounce them, and squish them together. These beads were also multicolored so our friends were able to talk about what colors they see as well as what they feel. Our last sensory activity was rainbow spaghetti! The kids loved that they got to play with their "food." Although they understood they could not actually eat the spaghetti the kids were able to pretend and use their imaginations. The kids talked about how the spaghetti felt like skinny worms and that it was cold and colorful. All of these activities provided the kids fun ways to explore a really import sense... touch! Through touch, kids develop and grow their fine motor skills for writing, cutting, zipping, shoe-tying and so much more as they pinch, grab, pull, and pour. These activities go far beyond they sand and water table and help provide kids with fun and interactive learning experiences. 

So much fun getting our hands messy! We loved getting to hear what they thought about this activity.

Fluffy, blue, messy, squishy. So much fun figuring out how to play and imagine with this cloud foam. 

So many colorful beads to sink my hands into! How do the feel? How do they look? 

Learning through touch is helpful in developing fine motor skills. This will help when learning to use scissors, tie a shoe, zip a jacket, etc..

Can we sort by color? Can we make a pattern? How else can we play with these sensory beads? 

Have you ever seen such colorful spaghetti?! Here, we are encouraging kids to play with their "food" 

These kiddos were SO excited to squish this spaghetti around and explore the way it feels in their little hands. 

The bigger kids were really interested in sorting the spaghetti by color and pretending to serve the spaghetti to their friends and pretending they were bright, colorful worms.

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