Experiencing Glue

Playing Outside

Here is a wonderful website from an Australian  preschool where the learning is play based. I just think that it looks like
a childhood that will sustain a child through life. Check it out and it might inspire us all to find more ways for  our children to play outdoors.

http://progressiveearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/

Miss Julie

Bamboo Brushes

YD painted with watercolor and bamboo

branches. They loved swishing the brushes

in the watercolor and onto the paper. They have adjusted

well to my visits.

Nature

The Twos joyfully work on projects together. They are building

skills of patience, manipulating new materials and

cooperation.

Gourds

Kindergarten and Pre-K drew some gourds that I sucessfully

grew this year. We talked about the basic shape(round circles)

and looked at the spots and other details. They will keep these in their

sketchbooks.

Mixing colors after the printmaking project.

Red and Green

The children are learning the ways of the studio. We
squeeze a lot of creativity into their relatively short
time that they visit. This week we looked at a basket of
vegetables guessing what they were. This is a nice thing
for you to do at the grocery store or local open air markets.
We proceeded to use potatoes, tiny green tomatoes, peppers,
onions, and okra into prints. We began with red paint learning to
move our arms in an up and down motion(instead of side to side)
to create our marks. Some tried to guess which veggie made their
print. Then we added a little green paint to see what would happen.
They were all amazed to see that they made varying shades of grey,
brown and dark green. It then turned into a color exploration.
Some of them talked me into using yellow. which added another color.
It was a fun and successful project.

Java Dough

The YD classes helped me mix up "Java Dough" This was thrilling for them.We mixed dried coffee grounds
flour, water and a pinch of cinnamon together. The children helped me mix and as it transformed into a dough , we placed it onto the table for them to squish and pinch.
The activity gave them some pleasure and they were all very happy. Their teachers shot some photos as my
hands were very messy to do photos.