What’s On Our Table
Last Thursday I promised to share a new Friday feature and here it is Monday already! More about that in a minute. Last Friday we went to Slate Run Farm. If you are not far from Columbus, I highly recommend a visit to this 1800′s historical, working farm. They often hold programs here too so be sure to check their schedule.
As often happens in the Spring, babies are born on the farm-a few sets of twins even!!
So back to my new Friday feature— What’s On Our Table. As I said last week - I love to strew and leave interesting stuff around for my kids to play with. When I taught pre-school this was one of my favorite things to do; set up the environment for the kids. I have a small table in my dinning room that I like to leave stuff out on for the kids to find. I usually change this every Thursday (when I clean). I try to change it up as much as I can. So one week it may be a game or magnets or a card making station. I never put anything messy here. It’s usually something they haven’t played with in a while, an interesting book, things that wouldn’t normally go together or something that has a connection to something else in our world. Here is a wooden marble game the kids played with at the farm.
And here is What’s On Our Table this week.
Strewing is a great way to expose your kids to different ideas and activities. Things they may or may not find interesting. By no means are my kids expected to read these things I leave out or they must solve the puzzles etc… My only hope is that they find it fun or interesting. Who knows what will catch their eye and then they will be off looking for more information or a different way to do something. Sometimes these things spark an interest and sometimes not. I am always leaving interesting stuff all over the house but I make a conscious effort to change this table up once a week.
My hope is to post What’s On Our Table on Friday’s—feel free to share what you have strewn at your house too!
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But I think I’ve found a solution. A serving tray, filled with strewed stuff, and it can be moved to a kid bedroom, or the counter when we need the table, or wherever the baby can’t get it at the time…..
Anyway, I look forward to your feature, and to the ideas it may bring forward to our family, and if it’s okay with you, I might even use the same idea on my blog to try and share some of our weekly strewing with other families. ….
come on over and check out my blog if you want… canadiangranola.wordpress.com
Anno
I’m happy to hear you and your family enjoyed your visit. It’s a wonderful place to spend time with children. My daughter and I started volunteering when she was five. She’s 13 now and still loves going to the farm.
I can see from above that you’ve found the farm’s page on the official metroparks website, http://www.metroparks.org.
You might also be interested in a new website that was started by the volunteers group, http://www.friendsofslaterunfarm.org
It has lots of animal pictures, monthly articles written by the farmers and volunteers, baby animal updates, the latest schedule of activities, lots of photos, etc. I also write a blog “The Back Porch Blog”
Hope you get a chance to come back and visit soon!
Farm Lady