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Kindergarten Science

Kindy this week.

Milk,  food colouring and dish washing liquid.

What's happening?

Eva: "I mixed it up. It changed colour. Cause the liquid did it. It's magic.

...love to wonder and that is the seed of science.  Ralph Waldorf Emerson

Jo Johanson

Cool

Observational drawing

Todays kindy update, its great to know what Eva gets up to when she is not with me.

Observational drawing.... By offering a variety of subjects for children to draw and as teachers draw attention to the finer details through this process, the children begin to notice different shapes, textures and colours.  This is when children begin to view the world through the eyes of an artist.

Eva noticed we had something different to draw with today.  Pastel  chalk and water.   As Eva was experimenting with these, I encouraged her flicked through the pages of our book which showed a variety of photos of people with clay painted faces and head pieces.  Please see photos attached, Eva's interpretation.

Art touches the soul... Art is communication... It reaches out from the canvas and passes through the eyes of the viewer right into his heart where it can leave an imprint of beauty that can make the spirit sing.  Nina Baldwin.

Jo Johanson
Kerikeri Kindergarten

Baking for Kapa Haka tomorrow

The window building

This was sent today from kindy, a daughter to be proud of.

Lilly:  "It's decorated windows"
Eva:  "we did it, it's beautiful"

I think this is the tallest and longest building I have seen built at kindergarten.  Eva and Lilly spent a long time working together to create this magnificent construction. Balancing the blocks was a little tricky but they worked together and did it!

Eva and Lilly showed many Habits of Mind....persisting - creating, imagining, innovating - taking responsible risks - thinking interdependently.  Essential life skills.

Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you don't know the answer.  It means having dispositions toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known. Costa and Kallick.

Jo.

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