The change I made in my classroom was to the sensory table. It previously had caps and lids from various containers. The children loved it when it was first brought in, but then after a while they got tired of playing with it. I decided to take the caps out and add paper that was shredded into the sensory table. I included 3 buckets of various sizes with the paper. After 2 days of the original set up, I added scrap pieces of colored construction paper so the children could rip up the paper and add it to the pieces of white paper to make it colorful. My main intent for this change was to respnd to and enhance an emerging insterest. The children in my classroom have been interested in different textures. They love playing with and exploring materials with unusual or new textures. We have been playing with playdough, slime, floam, and used puffy paint. The puffy paint dried raised from the paper and when they touched it, it was spongy and squishy. The principles I used to develop my Invitation were exploring/sensory, building and constructing, and dramatizing. I picked exploring/sensory because …show more content…
I made the arrangement orderly and beautiful while offering suggestions on how the materials may be used. I suggest that the buckets can be used to scoop up the paper, or used to make structures. I also suggest that the colored paper can be ripped and be added to the small pieces of white paper or bigger colored paper could add to structures. I include attention to size, scale, and levels in my arrangement through the use of different size buckets and different sizes of colored paper to encourage more creativity in their expiereinces with the paper. On the third day of them I repositioned the materials to spark a new interest. The repositioning included adding the colored paper to the
I try to add in the theme lesson plans an activity the child leads through being creative and with all sorts of materials available. I have observed when you allow a child to be hands on and leading the process they become more interested in the information, and excited to ask questions even to share with everyone what they made and how it fits with the lesson.
I was very pleased with my picture in watercolour pencils but the collage didn’t turn out to well. After this I made a page of leaves drawn in 2 styles two in pencils and two in rubbings. I was pleased with the leaves done in pencil but the rubbings didn’t look that nice as you can only get a single colour and no shading. Next continuing with the vegetation theme I made a picture of Monet’s water lilies. I was pleased with this as it allowed me to experiment with pastels and enabled me to create a strong colourful picture. Next we made a copy of a picture of Jesus on the cross in acrylic this painting was done by Gauguin. This enabled me to experiment with a new style of painting with its simple lines and bright colours. The next piece of art is the piece that I’m happiest with out of my entire book. It was a copy of a print of black and white natural objects shaded with dots and lines. This was a completely new style of shading for me and it is one that I like a lot. Then I started developing my final art piece for the year I took a section of my garden and drew and shaded it in black pen after this I did 2 or 3 more pictures of this section of my garden one in pencil one in collage and one in acrylic.
At an age when my friends’ floors were strewn with toys, dirty clothes, or video-game cartridges, mine was smothered in paper of all sorts — books, magazines, reams of white and college-ruled, paper bags, paper airplanes. This pattern has survived, and it is representative of the way I live. The house of my life is built on a foundation of paper.
Before I enrolled into SAC, I was a non-fan of sports, nervous, young man, who heard about SAC from a friend in Upper School and has tons of hopes for Grade 9. Something was hold me back to go to SAC. , although that "something” terminated after I knew that everyone were Andrean Brothers and that's why I'm currently aiming to perfect the role of a well-rounded citizen. As they say, “Friends are the most ingredient in the recipe of life”. Friends, like Daniel Zhao, who told me about this school changed my whole life. Once I stepped on Andrean soil, I knew that I was part of something special. In addition, I never had "fun" in sports events because I thought I might get hurt. Yet when I joined SAC sports teams, I was afraid
My freshman seminar class hitherto has been good. In this class I have been learning about various topics. These topics fall into helping us for high school and preparing us for the future. These topics was important and necessary because they helped us to avoid from not being successful. One of the topics we have recently accomplished was budgeting.
So, it was a nice and sunny day at Lakeview Elementary School. It was lunch time and all of the kids were outside playing on the playground. I was playing a game of tag with quite a few friends. Things went well for the first few minutes. Everyone was having a good time laughing and tagging everyone. Then things got heated. One friend at the time, Josh Randall, pushed my other friend, John Hill, to the ground. Boy was I fired up. I ran at him with a full head of steam and planted Josh right on the ground. After the hit I helped up my good buddy John. About a second after he was on his feet Josh came out of nowhere and planted his knee right into my testicles, and before I knew it I was on the ground hunched over in pain.
It’s no secret that American education is of very low quality. As a victim of public schooling, I have been observing my environment for as long as I can remember. Through my observations and the fact that I’ve been exposed to new ideas, I have formulated ideas that could drastically improve public education, and thus our future. These ideas are as follows: use the same standards, stop using standardized tests for punishment, begin letting students fail, and use more standardized tests.
This experiment is about the improvement that the color of the paper can bring to the learning capabilities. Some colored paper represents meaning; such as, green represents positive and can negate negative effects on your brain, and yellow means mind and intelligence. These colors are light and it is very attractive to our eye and our brain. Having colored papers will trigger a part of our brain that it will be more attractive and be more curious about the content of the paper.
Change. Change is a simple word but its action can pack a big punch. Looking back on to when I was young I have faint blurred memories of my childhood.
Several things have struck me as powerful lessons in the six weeks since I first entered this class. Though I have always known that I had experienced privilege throughout my life, I never realized how truly engrained that was in me until writing the first assignment. During that experience, I struggled with identifying ways that my heritage had impacted my development and approached it from more of an internal standpoint rather than an environmental one. Sitting in class and listening to my classmates’ experiences, I was struck by how much different their lives have been in comparison to mine. Being able to put myself in their shoes even for a moment was a much-appreciated exercise in empathy. This is an example of our sixth learning objective:
Within my kindergarten classroom setting, we have a variety of diverse learners. I have four English Learners; two who do not speak English and the other two are at the immediate and advanced level. I have a student who is an all-academic I.E.P and 504 who is also on behavioral intervention plan as well. I was informed of two homeless students who are in my classroom as well. This is not where the diversity ends though. We have four struggling readers and quite a few students who struggle with writing their letters correctly. My mentor teacher accommodates each student's needs to raise their success rate as students. Being placed in a diverse classroom has opened up my eyes to the different circumstances a student comes into the classroom with.
My mind was empty and full of boredom, and the only way to satisfy this void was to draw. It was midday at my house, and my four-year-old attention span was not able to handle not drawing. I scurried around my parent’s office looking for the holy grail of colors and found it in the waxy smell of Crayola crayons: a magnificent, bright, and vivid pack of 12 colors. I began my search for the last piece of the puzzle--the white copy paper to draw on. Searching for what seemed like forever (most likely a minute), I gave up and began another exploration. I scouted for my mom, who I found talking to someone on the phone and too busy to help me. This dilemma became a devastating blow. With no one to help me look for paper, I needed to take action and
Collage and Craft Materials – This offers a number of art supplies for any collage or craft projects, including craft sticks, feathers, pipe cleaners, yarn, glitter, stencils, and much more.
I will come around to each table group and give them the materials they need based off what they have agreed upon in the group discussion. Other than the cards with the pictures, the students have the glue, pencils, and scissors in their desks.
Make sure to have a variety or art materials such as paint, markers, crayons, glitter, and fabric ready for these learners to use.