Geo-Boards in Kitah Gimmel

Rubber bands…. A terrific (and fun) fine motor activity.  For the first time this year, we brought out the Geoboards – pegboards.  Add rubber bands and it not only stretches their imaginations but also strengthens their fine motor skills all at the same time.  The yeladim were using their small motor pinzser grasps to stretch, pull and loop over the pegs.  It allowed the yeladim to create linear designs, spatial design, problem solve and to just create!  They could create with 1, 5 or “27!” rubber bands! One child even “stretched” his imagination by connecting 2 boards together with simply a single rubber band. 

Some rubber bands went flying across the table but mostly the yeladim were very focused and busy on designing and in some case redesigning the shapes and stories they created.  This simple board also allowed the yeladim to create stories about machines, gardens and spaceships just to name a few. Actually, these are there own words…

“A spaceship – it travels above the moon to Mars!”,  “It’s a drum, and it can make a cool trick too!”,   “It’s something for counting number!, ” “It’s a trianguly thing.”, “A machine, that makes all kinds of drinks!”, “It’s a monster truck – they tip over things!  They trip over trash cans because their tires are so heavy, they can’t believe it!”, “It’s a musical instrument and listen to it sing!”, “It’s a circle inside of a rectangle.”, “I made lots of lines going up and down and now I’m going to make a lot of lines going side to side!”, “This reminds me of a garden, look at the flower!”