Even though things look a little different this year, we are still learning, discovering, and enjoying school! Valley Forge Kinder House has implemented several daily health and safety measures to keep students and staff safe in the classroom.
How We're Keeping Students Safe
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Resources
Hammering It Up!
There are many tools we use for learning activities in our classrooms. A toddler favorite is the Clay Hammer and Tee Tray. This is an excellent exercise to practice and develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. The children love it!
The Importance of Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor ...
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Screen Time Article
Our primary teacher, Mrs. Gwynne Peters, has spoken both to the Parent Group and at the Coffee and Conversations about our children and Screen Time. Mrs. Peters found this article and shared it with me. We wanted to share it with all of you. I think we are all guilty of over use of screen time in ...
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Sandpaper Numbers
The purpose of this material is to learn to write the symbols that correspond to the quantities the child has learned.
The numbers 1-9 are cut out from sandpaper and mounted on a thick piece of wood or masonite. Zero does not get presented at this time. Also present are a little jug, basin and a ...
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The Brown Stairs
Ten wooden brown prisms are all the same length, but vary in breadth and height.
Brown StairsThe student scatters the ten prisms on a mat and then proceeds to place them in their right order of graduation upon the same mat. These kinds of activities help the student to develop a trained eye ...
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The Sandpaper Letters
The sandpaper letters are one of the key materials found in the language area of the classroom. They are the letters of the alphabet (lower case script) cut out and each mounted on a separate piece of wood. The consonants are mounted on blue wood and the vowels on pink.
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Water Pouring
Through this exercise the child gains a wonderful sense of left to right eye-hand coordination and concentration.
These exercises consist of a small tray, and two or more vessels – one of which holds liquid. As a child is guided through the various levels of progression, they are taught proper ...
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Pink Tower
This material helps children develop visual discrimination of size in three dimensions.
The Pink Tower is one of the first materials that the child experiences when working in the Sensorial area of the classroom. The tower consists of ten wooden pink cubes that vary in size from 1 cubic cm to ...
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