Art response

I just completed my art response and it was good looking at all the things I had learnt and thought about over the course of the semester.

It has shown my emerging philosophy and how I view every child as capable and confident. It also displays my understanding of place thought and how it had been imbedded in my practice during placement.

What has your art response made you realise? What did you learn? Has the assessment given you a better understanding of your emerging philosophy?

Reflection

What was the most interesting part of this semester, what did you learn most about?

I learnt most about place thought and really getting to know our surroundings.  I didn't think I would but enjoyed teaching this concept to younger kids.

Best learning experience at placement

Tomorrow is our last session at placement and a couple of days ago I was thinking about which learning experience worked really well.

Last week another girl and I made a sand foam activity where you mix clean sand and shaving foam together which creates a really fun sensory activity.

We also hid dinosaurs and horses in the foam as that what the children were interested in and they had lots of fun.

I asked the children if the foam was hot or cold and what it felt like so we could build up a list of describing words.


Looking back on your placement so far which activity was most fun for you/ the children and why?

The use of natural and open ended materials at placement

Curtis and Carter, cited in MacNaughton, G & Williams, G (2009)  state that open-ended ended materials that are placed in various areas will facilitate creativity within children and allow them to use their imaginations as they rearrange and put materials together for inventions and explorations.


Some examples that I have thought of so far is water play and a painting station that includes natural materials to paint with instead of brushes (we did this at placement in week 8). Leaves, branches, bark and many more natural materials can be used to paint/ stamp with. Next week (week 10) another educator and I will be creating a sand experience that the children will help us to set up

What are some natural open-ended materials you think you could use or have used in your placement so far that relate to the 3 lenses?





References:
MacNaughton, G & Williams, G 2009, Techniques for teaching young children; choices for theory and practice, 3rd edn, Pearson Education Australia, NSW.