Students Embrace Imagination through New Play Materials
Students Embrace Imagination through New Play Materials
Transitional Kindergarten students at Angell are enjoying their new learning materials supplied by the Berkley Education Foundation. Teacher Laurie Ovies submitted for a BEF Innovation-Grant earlier this fall and was awarded the grant for a Rainbow Pegboard.
In her grant application, Ms. Ovies shared, “The Rainbow Pegboard will be available for play each day during our workshop/free play time. Playing on a vertical space is integral to children's development. Vertical play helps develop children's shoulder and elbow stability, bilateral coordination, crossing the midline, establishing hand dominance, wrist extension and pencil grasp, visual attention and hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and core strength and posture. This is important work in an early childhood classroom.”
Every day, students in TK have the opportunity to explore the classroom during workshop/free play time. The Rainbow Pegboard is a student favorite. When the Communications Office visited this week, students were making a rainbow flower, sorting the pegs by color, creating shapes and objects by lumping the pegs together and noticing what happens to the pegs when you shine a flashlight through them.
