I decided to make a salt tray for her to practice writing her numbers. So I went to our local Dollar Tree and picked up the supplies. As I was walking through the craft section, I noticed they had bags of colored sand! OMG! I got every color that they had left.
So I made a tray with sand and a tray with salt. She loved it! We practiced our numbers 1-20. She struggles with the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. She could write them perfectly in the salt/sand tray. I was so proud of her! It definitely helps to switch things up in the classroom and get away from the paper and pencil.
If you put the rice or sand in a pencil box, you can just close the lid and put it away...no fuss, no muss, nor pouring sand or rice from a bag or container into your pie pan. It worked like a charm for my kindergartners that really struggled and needed extra practice! (I always tried to pick up a few pencil boxes at clearance time after back to school shopping for just this purpose!)
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