9-15-11

Today I added cotton balls to my sensory table along with the feathers. I wanted to see if the mixture would generate any different responses among the children. There were both atypical and typical peers here today, so I tried to take time to be at the sensory table even though there were a lot of children I needed to spread my time between. I did not use the whole container of cotton balls because I felt that there would be too many materials in the table at once, so I only put about half of the container of cotton balls in the table. For the amount of time I spent at the sensory table, I felt like the children spent less time at the table today than they did yesterday. Bodhi and Karson definitely had a lot of interest in the table, as did Drew. Karson wanted to have another tickle fight, and took a few feathers around the room with him. One of them separated the balls from the feathers and asked what they were. Personally, I think the combination of the cotton balls and feathers are so soft and comfortable that the children would enjoy them. I hope to see more activity around the table tomorrow