We love our sand

Specifically in the sand tray...and that's where we're trying to keep it. Our classroom sand try is actually a mix of color sand and some salt. The children can practice forming letters and numbers in the tray with their fingertips.There's also a small dish with a cloth to wipe the extra sand off their fingers and I've really been trying to make sure they're only using their fingers, not their whole hand to ensure that the sand tray actually stays full of sand.

Making numbers has been especially popular. C especially loves to go through the entire box of sandpaper numbers, forming each one in the sand tray and then giving it a gentle shake to clear the sand before making the next number. Hopefully I can get them excited to start writing letters in the tray as well, it will making learning to write later that much easier if they have the muscle memory already. Until then we'll keep on plugging away with the numbers, especially 0, the current favorite number in the class.