Thursday, July 10, 2014

Tower of Babel 1 Year Old Ideas



We read a version of the this story in different children's Bibles daily.  Even on our busy days when our schedule is thrown off, I try to make it a point to read to the babies.  During this story, we focused on building/construction.  We built with several types of blocks and items including cardboard blocks, foam blocks, play dough, sand, books, cups, etc.Displaying 20140624_131830.jpg


I also focused on teaching numbers and counting 1 through 5 both in Spanish and English to reinforce how they spoke different languages
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For sensory play we tried to build bricks with sand and play dough.  J loved having sand indoors!
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We built with MegaBloks.
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We played outside in the sandbox!
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I let them pretend to be construction workers.  I think they enjoyed the hat more than playing with the blocks.
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For an art lesson, we made our own Tower out of construction paper.  They painted clouds using cotton balls.  They finger painted the green grass, and then I allowed them to glue on the bricks anywhere they wanted with as little of guidance as possible.  I used glue stick to make most of the paper sticky so that they could lay down the papers anywhere they wanted.  It took a few days to finish these.  I don't push the boys to do anything they don't want; therefore, if they get tired of doing 'work' we stop for the day and do something else.
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