Here are some boxes to help teachers. You can get yourself organized by utilizing the boxes. The box can help to promote all the basic concepts integral to the early childhood learning environment. The box ideas described below offer opportunities for growth in the areas of creativity , self-esteem, independence, organization ,responsibility ,cognitive and physical development and so much fun. Here are some boxes for fun that you can make.
- CUBBY BOXES- on the first day of school, each child brings in a shoe box which is transformed into a private cubby box. A recent picture of the child is taped securely to the box top. A name card with large, clearly printed letters is taped to one end. Then the children decorate their boxes with stickers and drawings. You may put anything in your box that you want to keep private and safe.
- NESTING BOXES- a set of nesting boxes is an easy to make addition to an early childhood classroom. Small boxes of descending size make a very good discrimination game which incorporates small motor activity. The children must put the smallest box inside the next largest, those two inside the next and so on. Finding the correct tops as they go along. Finding the right boxes to make such a set is a learning activity in itself.
- THE REFRIGERATION BOX- Our classroom is small and full of activity .We need a place where a child could find solitude or two children could play quietly together. A refrigerator box did the trick. First, the children decorated the box with drawings and paper cut-outs. They indicated where they would like me to cut out windows, doors, peepholes and a small slot. Then ,we put the box out in the hall near our classroom door, where it could be seen from the room. The children could bring just about anything into the box from any area of the room. It can be a nook for reading a playhouse ,a secret hiding place .
By: Juvy Cruz | MT-I | Orion Elementary School
