Express Yourself: Reflecting On Our Learning

For the past several weeks the children have been exploring The Joy Of Picking Flowers and have expressed this in a variety of ways.  I made a web and recorded our past experiences  . . . 

• they listened to the song English Country Garden and reflected on the idea this song evoked
• they listened to Rossini's William Tell Overture and recalled how they moved liked wildflowers
• they recalled the feelings that arose in them as they acted the story of The Gunnywolf

Today they expressed their thoughts and ideas about the joy of picking flowers through painting. 

At first I heard some children criticize another's painting so we stopped and had a look at the many painting styles they can think about and Googled flower images. Some of the children's painting was similar to abstract and some similar to pointillism.