Donato and Jorge were provoked with
pebbles. Together with the teacher they touched
and compared the different shapes and sounds they made
when rubbed against each other.
Besides touching and manipulating the pebbles,
the teacher wanted them to know how rich, creative and fun pebbles are to
create different shapes and even letters.
Through this activity both Donato and
Jorge practiced letter recognition skills, letter tracing, vocabulary as well as creativeness itself.
The teacher encouraged Donato and Jorge by modeling
with pebbles their first letters.
A pebbled letter D and J, directed their
interest to create
other letters with pebbles.
After exploring
with different letters on the carpet,
the teacher creates a dog motivating them to create different things with pebbles.
Donato creates…
A dog
A spider
A tall building
Finding similarities & Peebles
Two weeks after Donato and
Jorge were exposed to manipulate pebbles
in a different way, the teacher places them in the table
and André begins to manipulate them.
Spontaneously he begins to create things, first a bat and then a snake. From the snake André begins to build a family of snakes : baby,
mother, father and nanny.
A bat
One snake
Family of snakes
After a period of quietness and concentration Andre begins to make sounds with different pebbles as he says " Suena como madera” , “Ladrillo”, “Suena duro.” He intentionally begins to test and try out different sounds. At last he founds that two pebbles with a similar shape made a similar sound.
André also groups pebbles that had some similarity although with different shape.
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