march 2025
The children have continued to show a strong interest in their educators’ clipboards. We (the educators) had initially thought the children’s theories were around letter and number recognition. While that interest was certainly there, we were also wondering if there was a deeper level to this interest: could it be the clipboard itself? Were the children connecting with the idea that the clipboard was important to the educators? Or was it HOW the clipboards were being used? Were the marks on the paper important?
Did the children know that those marks on the paper were about them? The children had been asking to have their names printed on the paper, so that sense of identity was definitely there. During the many discussions about clipboards a question came up: what if the children had the opportunity to draw on a clipboard with a pen?
Well this is fairly new for them as they have observed us (educators) quite a few times using ballpoint pens and writing down observations on a clipboard, so they wanted to explore the same.
Smriti Bhoray ECE BEd BA in special education, Don McMahon RECE, Madhuri Bhalodia BA BEd
