Nina Mani LDC B and families welcome to our week 7 and week 8 blog.
Learning Intention 1: To continue to develop children’s cutting and pasting skills using a range of natural and manmade materials.
Why:
- Cutting and pasting activities for kindergarten children have many benefits. For example, cutting and pasting can help the development of fine motor skills. They can cut images, shapes and drawings and paste them into various shapes
- Cutting and pasting activities can also be used as creative channels for children’s self-expression.
- Cutting and pasting is an important first skill to master for children to then be able to design, ideate and successfully create artwork and objects.
- Cutting and pasting is a necessary skill for many school-based activities and will support school preparedness for children.
Here in LDC B we take pride in saying we are a very creative room. This is certainly the biggest interest of learning we have! We are always creating wether its drawing, painting, making play dough, herb cutting or craft gluing we always have something set up.
Stemming from this interest we wanted to take a few steps back and focus on LDC B children’s ability and skills of cutting and pasting. Although this may seem like and easy task for some, we wanted to make sure all our children understand the concept and safety behind these objects and techniques.
While we offer making on our art table throughout the day we wanted to make sure all children were ready to have these resources available to them at all times. Whilst this area will always be supervised, the children have continued to show their abilities with these resources every day over the past two weeks as they approach their imagination and creativity bringing their creations to life! Children engaged in a educator led discussion about how to be safe in this area.
Children’s voices:
“No cutting pants” – Tyler
“Lid on” – Winnie
“Don’t move the scissors” – Sofia
“Ask teacher for help” – Niya
“Share glue” – Philip
Areas of learning and provocations we did over the past few weeks:
Using herbs to practice our cutting
Using recycled boxes and materials to practice and create
Different medias such as paint and tissue paper to practice gluing different textures and lengths
Visual Group times on how much glue and how to use scissors correctly were done regularly
Visual art provocations provided in both our indoor and outdoor environments
A spontaneous inquiry with hot glue ( children were taken into small groups so educators were able to discuss with them – what it was, how to use it safety and what to use it for)
If you have any recyclable materials at home we encourage you to bring them in for making provided they have not contained egg or nuts!
Bookmaking
Spotlight Term 3:
‘What’s your book about?’ – supporting children to choose Themes for their stories and encourage writing
Well well well. The past few weeks of this term the LDC B team have been absolutely blown away with the results and how far our children have come with our spotlight for term 3. Not only have children created themes for their books and started to write! We also have publishers on our hands too. Earlier this week and the start of last week a few of our children were super brave and publish their books at group time. This is a huge step for LDC B in our book making journey and we couldn’t be prouder. Allowing children to have their own minds and voice in their publishing is super important for their writing as authors and we are so happy that some of us are already there and we know it will only be a matter of time until the rest of our children will be publishing.
Seeing children working along side each other on creating their own stories with words, themes and reason has been an absolute blessing to see. As a team we are happy to say that children have achieved our spotlight for term 3! For the last two weeks of the term we will work towards this spotlight still and focus on strengthening our children’s ability and confidence to write in their stories as well as publishing too.
Some other areas of book making we have looked at over the past two weeks have been:
Library visits ( encouraging their love for reading and books )
Visual book making boards ( although it is not a paperback copy of their books, children can still be authors using this provocation to tell their stories)
Our home corner ( working towards their communication and role playing different characters and scenes )
Small world play ( using their imagination and creative mind to create a different world, with characters, vocal expressions and dialog)
Although all of these areas of learning look like they are working towards book making and literacy – we can see with the information above that it is and book making / mark making isn’t always in paperback form.
Specks of gold:
