Using Flannel Boards in Early Childhood Education

What is a flannel Board or storyboard? This is a valuable and versatile educational tools for teachers and preschool children. Storyboard has become an integral part of the pre-school curriculum. It is completely covered with flannel Board storytelling or felt material with a toddler teacher can use the Visual story with photos, storyboards and forms a variety of other Manipulatives that are made from flannel or felt cut-outs (flannel sticking flannel) to tell. Flannel boards can come in different sizes and can be mounted on a wall or a small table-top style with a donkey which can easily be folded to get rid of.

Table styles are great for small groups of children and encourage more participation and interaction and can be easily stored. Larger wall-mounted style are more permanent and better for large groups such as the classroom environment. Flannel boards or story-boards can be bought commercially, but it's very easy to create your own. Some boards have purchased commercial magnetic side on the downside for use with magnetic Manipulatives and some Whiteboard can have in the back.

The story is a retelling of expertise are important in developing language skills and memory with toddlers. Pre-Literacy is important and even toddlers will benefit from listening to and watching the children play. Young children are always learning by observation and modeling of the older children. Most preschool institutions had a population of multi-age, age overlaps to different groups, like most of the family.

Promotion of a child for re-tell a story or sequence numbers or identifying colors and shapes is an independent activity as well as the great pleasure of partners. Retelling reinforced learning and abstract concepts. Toddlers will draw it anyway if the materials are left on the Board for their use. They will also have their own story creative use of flannel boards form playing in a free environment for makeup. Children enjoy the touch and feel the gentle form of manipulative.

Ancestors is a flannel Board play independent activity is great for quiet moments like waiting for the doctor's Office, long car rides or just before going to sleep or NAP time. Flannel boards are also great for rainy days of indoor activities for kids. Teachers love to use it for everything from the story; ABC kids games, theme lesson plans, educational rhymes and songs, finger plays.

Flannel Board set are soft, colorful feel clipping shape, color alphabet letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, or characters and props. Commercial sets can be found for fairy tales, nursery rhymes, popular literature, safety lessons, maps, calendar, season, Beast (Zoo, forests, agriculture, pets, etc.), special holidays, dinosaurs, multicultural ideas, Biblical characters, games, transportation and many more early childhood themes. They can buy a pre-cut or teachers and carers on a budget can create their own designs feel.

Flannel Board of fun activities for families, preschool centers, head start centers, home day care provider, homeschooling families, early childhood education setting, Sunday school teacher, special education classes, librarian and school teacher in the values that are lower than the base. Even teachers in higher rankings can make good use of the flannel Board to teach the country or geography, map, or find math lessons. This utility is almost endless.