Flowers

On Tuesday we did observational drawings of flowers. Again the children first drew a picture of what they thought a flower looked like and then we went out and actually looked and drew our observations. This time the children were very quick to try and alter their first drawing. Some of the children also became quite obsessed with the insects that were on or around the flowers and these have been drawn too. The children reflected upon their own drawings and were quick to provide postive feedback to a buddy.

Vida

Tyra

Thomas

Gemma

Eva

Claire

Caitlyn

Gemma

Claire

Eva

Vida

Thomas

Tyra

Caitlyn

Campbell

REAL Drawing Skills: Trees

Today we started looking at how we draw things as drawing is considered a very valuable tool in sharing our understanding within the Reggio philosophy. Today I began by asking the children to draw a picture of a tree, once they had done this we went outside and looked at a tree. We talked about all of the different parts and shapes we could see. The children then sitting around the bottom of the tree drew another picture of a tree using their observations. The children were very pleased with their observational drawings and even praised each other for different aspects.Campbell

Claire

Gemma

Thomas

Tyra

Vida

Caitlyn

Eva

The Parrot Tico Tango

We read the story today about the naughty parrot Tico Tango and then we painted pictures of him.

The Earth - Our Drawings

After our earlier discussions I asked the children to draw a picture of themselves and the Earth.

Caitlyn: I used a telescope to see the thing. The earth is all the way up there. (Pointing to the sky).

Campbell: Earth is up in space. It is made of circles. I think it is black. People can see the earth, they have to climb up there.

Claire: The earth is up in the sky and those are all the planets and some earths. There are 29 planets. The earth is hot. I have a telescope and I am looking at the sky in my outside bath.

Eva: They are the colourful stars. The earth is up in the sky. There are planets in earth. I think earth is blue but I don’t know. I have seen it on telly. I was a watching planet on earth.

Thomas: The earth is up in the sky. There are stars
Miss Bell: Why the is the earth blue and green?
Thomas: The blue is the water and that is the grass. There are trees on the earth. They have cars on earth. The stars are making pictures of a car. The stars look like a tree.

Vida: This is the Earth, I’ve seen it on a movie. The green bits are the earth and sea bits are blue that is where the water is. The black bits around it are space. Earth is in space, we are on the Earth.

Vida said she had misunderstood what I had said so I asked her to do just a quick pencil drawing again to show what she meant.

Where is Earth?

Today I sat down and read a book to the class called 'Michael Recycle'. The story is about a town where the people are wasteful and lazy. They are visited by a superhero called Michael Recycle, who helps them clean things up. This discussion began when I read the page, "A green-caped crusader stupendously swooped, descending to Earth with a great loop-the loop."

Miss Bell: Where is Earth?
Campbell: It is up in space. Up in the sky
GW: Do you think Earth gets hot?
Miss Bell: We could find out.
Claire: How do we find out?
Eva: Look in a book.
Campbell: We could get a big ladder and see.
TP: We could get a telescope to look.
Eva: A trampoline to jump up.
Vida: Does anyone have a long ladder.
Thomas: I have a long one.
Campbell: I have a really, really long one.
Vida: It would have to go all the way to the sky
Campbell: The Earth is hot.
Claire: I know there are lots and lots and lots of moons and colours and there is a yellow one that has a circle with lots and lots of rings around it.
Campbell: Broken bones hurt. Ow ow ow.
Miss Bell: What do you mean Campbell?
Campbell: If you fell off the really long ladder your bones will break.