Child Workshop
Successes:
-Declan was able to use his athletic target practice skills.
-Declan learned different techniques of breaking balloons and taught his brother how to use one of them
-Rylan continued to keep trying even if the balloons couldn't quite break the balloons
-We created a feeling of connectedness by getting Declan to share his hockey stick with Rylan and when Rylan and I worked on breaking balloons with our feet
-Rylan told me about how he wanted to try baseball and then he practiced his throws.
-Declan spoke about his hockey tournaments.
-Both kids were able to express stories with detail about what they wanted to do or had already done
-Declan is trying to understand himself and his relationships with others so when he tested authority with me I decided to maintain our family relationship status and so I treated him in a respectful and silly way as we chose to make compromises.
-As we made our superheroes Declan showed a great understanding of symbol use, planning, motor skill with cutting, he cut out a heart for me which he used from recall from his art class, and he helped Rylan with cutting
-Rylan made his own character discoveries by acknowledging that a snake superhero cannot live with the bird an pterodactyl superheroes.
-Declan chose to look up on the computer what wings would look like and asked for help.
-Declan chose to combine his other interest in dinosaurs into the piece which is the Dewey concept of relating the work to the student or allowing for those opportunities to take place.
-Rylan would often recede into his chair and say he couldn't do it which just meant that I needed to offer him suggestions of help and with the classroom atmosphere remaining positive he felt safe and able to ask for help and questions after a while
-We took swing breaks so that the boys could release active energy.
-Though Declan was sick of the project he still helped me get to the end by using some pre-cut shapes and eyes and told me where he wanted to glue everything. this was exciting for me because it showed that he understand spatial awareness and was able to create a balance tri-fold.
-I learned how to make the project flexible and also that the time limits need work
-I learned about other things that Declan is excited about such as dinosaurs, paper airplanes, coloring, and trying out coloring tools like my smudging sticks.
-Declan and Rylan still wanted to colour and make art when the project way over
-Declan was able to visually represent himself as a superhero which is one of the Language Art requirements which is the ability to express yourself with the means of different media
Non -Successes
-Rylan had trouble with aim and with breaking balloons and was upset even though he continued to try
-Declan did not use the pre-cut shapes unless he was disinterested so I felt like I should have had more faith in him
-It was super messy
-Rylan was no where near using symbols and often decided he would rather tell me stories and got upset when he couldn't cut things out nicely. I think that next time I would take Rylan away from facing his brother at the table and he and I could have sat on the ground and colored in a background for the monster. There was so much white space that Rylan could have used for experimenting with marks. This way he would have stopped comparing himself to Declan and then when Declan was gluing on our superheroes I could have helped Rylan to pick pre-cut shapes to stick onto his head.
-I think that I will need more time next time to create such an in-depth project.
I think It would be fun to work with Declan in using Tri-folds that we have painted and make them into backdrops then we could make dinosaur masks which he loves so much and then we could work on video taping him and I as dinosaurs. we could make a story line to involve Language Arts and he could even use science to explore two dinosaurs that we would be in the story. Then after making a lesson plan I would sen him home with the video footage and then he could make it into a movie with his dad. I say this because his dad is and I.T. guru and would love to help Declan with this and the project is active which would suit him and he can work on learning how to make art for different functions and how to use digital media. Plus his dad is a specialist in Mac programing so Declan could work with a specialist to learn about the technology side. I would also make up a lesson plan to use for the computer program in Imovie so then that way I am not just passing off the assignment and he will be involved with family at home.
-Declan was able to use his athletic target practice skills.
-Declan learned different techniques of breaking balloons and taught his brother how to use one of them
-Rylan continued to keep trying even if the balloons couldn't quite break the balloons
-We created a feeling of connectedness by getting Declan to share his hockey stick with Rylan and when Rylan and I worked on breaking balloons with our feet
-Rylan told me about how he wanted to try baseball and then he practiced his throws.
-Declan spoke about his hockey tournaments.
-Both kids were able to express stories with detail about what they wanted to do or had already done
-Declan is trying to understand himself and his relationships with others so when he tested authority with me I decided to maintain our family relationship status and so I treated him in a respectful and silly way as we chose to make compromises.
-As we made our superheroes Declan showed a great understanding of symbol use, planning, motor skill with cutting, he cut out a heart for me which he used from recall from his art class, and he helped Rylan with cutting
-Rylan made his own character discoveries by acknowledging that a snake superhero cannot live with the bird an pterodactyl superheroes.
-Declan chose to look up on the computer what wings would look like and asked for help.
-Declan chose to combine his other interest in dinosaurs into the piece which is the Dewey concept of relating the work to the student or allowing for those opportunities to take place.
-Rylan would often recede into his chair and say he couldn't do it which just meant that I needed to offer him suggestions of help and with the classroom atmosphere remaining positive he felt safe and able to ask for help and questions after a while
-We took swing breaks so that the boys could release active energy.
-Though Declan was sick of the project he still helped me get to the end by using some pre-cut shapes and eyes and told me where he wanted to glue everything. this was exciting for me because it showed that he understand spatial awareness and was able to create a balance tri-fold.
-I learned how to make the project flexible and also that the time limits need work
-I learned about other things that Declan is excited about such as dinosaurs, paper airplanes, coloring, and trying out coloring tools like my smudging sticks.
-Declan and Rylan still wanted to colour and make art when the project way over
-Declan was able to visually represent himself as a superhero which is one of the Language Art requirements which is the ability to express yourself with the means of different media
Non -Successes
-Rylan had trouble with aim and with breaking balloons and was upset even though he continued to try
-Declan did not use the pre-cut shapes unless he was disinterested so I felt like I should have had more faith in him
-It was super messy
-Rylan was no where near using symbols and often decided he would rather tell me stories and got upset when he couldn't cut things out nicely. I think that next time I would take Rylan away from facing his brother at the table and he and I could have sat on the ground and colored in a background for the monster. There was so much white space that Rylan could have used for experimenting with marks. This way he would have stopped comparing himself to Declan and then when Declan was gluing on our superheroes I could have helped Rylan to pick pre-cut shapes to stick onto his head.
-I think that I will need more time next time to create such an in-depth project.
I think It would be fun to work with Declan in using Tri-folds that we have painted and make them into backdrops then we could make dinosaur masks which he loves so much and then we could work on video taping him and I as dinosaurs. we could make a story line to involve Language Arts and he could even use science to explore two dinosaurs that we would be in the story. Then after making a lesson plan I would sen him home with the video footage and then he could make it into a movie with his dad. I say this because his dad is and I.T. guru and would love to help Declan with this and the project is active which would suit him and he can work on learning how to make art for different functions and how to use digital media. Plus his dad is a specialist in Mac programing so Declan could work with a specialist to learn about the technology side. I would also make up a lesson plan to use for the computer program in Imovie so then that way I am not just passing off the assignment and he will be involved with family at home.
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