28/03/2008 by James.

faded packet and rabbit skull…

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25/03/2008 by James.

By expanding the choice of materials offered to the children this week, we hoped to see whether their individual interests and ways of working that they have displayed so far, would cross the media boundaries and show themselves again.

We also aimed to give them access to materials that they may be able to find themselves and use in the future, whether in 5×5x5/pre-school or at home, so that they can continue to learn by exploring creatively and confidently outside of our session time.

As the children are getting more confident with working (playing) with me they are also getting more used to talking about their investigations and the thinking behind them… several times today spilling into story-telling and narrative as twigs became trees waving in the wind and a plastic tube acted as a man cutting down a hedge.

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18/03/2008 by James.

This week we introduced clay and smaller scale recycled materials (plastic tube, lolly sticks, stones, fir-cones etc). We aimed to allow the children to combine their earlier interests in mark-making/sensory investigation with the later focus on tubes, inside and outside spaces, wrapping/enveloping and measuring - linking learning experiences and extending/translating technical skills into new media.

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13/03/2008 by James.

Figures using materials, colours and imagery that reflect their culture and/or environment.

Australian Aboriginal Painted Figures.

Ah Xian - Chinese born artist living in Australia.

Julie Arkell - figures of folk origins made using domestic materials.

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12/03/2008 by James.

Another session using and exploring tubes and a range of scrap materials - this time with some plastic plumbing pipe and connectors to extend the children’s experience of connecting and exploring pipes and tubes, investigating length, height and measuring, developing new ways of creating sound and working together to solve technical problems.

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10/03/2008 by James.

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10/03/2008 by James.

A day of working with 5 to 7 year old children using drawing, rubbings, clay impressions, photos and discussion to explore the shapes, colours and patterns in the plants and structures of the school’s ’secret garden’.

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06/03/2008 by James.

Working with Key Stage 2 children, using and discussing recycled and natural materials, designing and creating a mask or head-dress based on a favourite animal.

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06/03/2008 by James.

This week the tubes became the key focus for the group… I had added more plastic and cardboard tubes, string, ribbon and elastic to enable them to take their explorations in connecting, posting and exploring inner and outer space even further… One boy found several ways to produce different sounds from one tube, calling down it, tapping and banging it and scraping it against the floor… others explored their length and height or clustered them together, carefully wrapping and ‘nesting’ them with unfurling receipt rolls and lengths of elastic.

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