Simone's topic of interest is blossoms.
She likes the pink and white ones and when she looks at them she feels surprised.
The children listened to a Japanese song called Sakura, which means cherry blossom. The children listened and then reflected what feeling the song evoked in them and wondered what feelings the artist was feeling. Most of the children felt scared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI
Simone chose art as a way to express her thoughts and feelings about blossoms. The children were inspired by this picture and an interesting discussion took place as they noticed that everyone's representation of the cherry blossom tree looked different. Is there a right and wrong way?
We looked at different artists representations of trees and noticed that they were all very different, especially abstract art.
Everyone has a different perspective and that's amazing.
The hot air popcorn maker brought up many stories of making popcorn at home and the overall feeling was surprised - perfect for the feeling some of the children wanted to portray in their picture.
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This is so fun, Wendy. Thank you for paying such attention to Simone's interests and for acknowledging that each piece of artwork is special. We sometimes struggle at home when Simone's picture looks different from mine, so it is helpful to have others also support differences. Stephanie
ReplyDeleteIt was wonderful to hear Simone and Julia's language change from critical statements about some of the other children's paintings to words of acceptance. Esme covered her whole paper in brown before adding the blossoms. Simone and Julia exclaimed "That must be a really big tree"
ReplyDeleteThat is excellent to hear they changed their responses! Thank you for sharing that. Stephanie
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