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Creative Art

Creative Art – Mahi Toi 

 

Learning objectives:

 

  • Heightens awareness of shape, form and detail in the wider world.
  • Teaches conservation of natural resources and recycling of waste product.
  • Affirms experimentation as a valued strategy for learning.
  • Children use their meta cognitive skills as they create what they know not what they see
  • Opportunity to express ideas and feelings
  • Extends imagination and creativity
  • Growing ability to plan work and demonstrate persistence
  • Develops an understanding of artistic perspective such as the same object can be represented in diverse ways. And that this concept can be applied in other situations such as social interactions.
  • Builds an understanding that results can often be based on input
  • An open ended resource suitable for all ages
  • Using diversity of tool and equipment for their intended and alternative purposed
  • Supports the development of artistic appreciation
  • Develops motor skills
  • Experimenting with ideas and material develops creative confidences.

Play dough and Clay

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  • An open resources with no set way of using it
  • Supports motor skill development
  • With additional props and use of imagination, dough promotes links to real life experiences such as cooking
  • Provides a sensory experience that extends imagination and creativity
  • Vocabulary increase with use of descriptive language
  • Preparing dough encourages active participation in decision making and planning for centre
  • Allows creative risk taking with no fear of failure
  • Learning about the malleability of dough
  • Introduces real life math skills such as weighting, quantity.
  • Leaning to take turns and share equipment
  • Provides for a diversity of social interaction. Ranging form solitary observational i.e. children can settle in, while observing what else is happening, to cooperative group play.
  • A safe area where no predetermined skills or abilities are required
  • Learning to use tools for intended and alternative purposes
  • No predetermined skills or abilities required
  • Satisfying and fun

Cooking – Tao​

 

Learning objectives:

 

  • Promotes literacy and numeracy as children make sense of symbols representing information
  • Experience based learning increase comprehension of the technical language used
  • Encourages children to try new foods they prepare
  • Children learn that cooking is a process and requires a systematic approach
  • Learn about nutrition
  • Relationship skills develop as children can be the teacher or the learner.
  • An increasing sense of autonomy develops as children learn practical life skills
  • Self esteem is increased when children make contributions to family or centre meals
  • Learning about relevance of maths in real life e.g. measurement, quantity
  • Cooking develops all 5 sense
  • Understanding about conversation, using only what is needed
  • Develops concentration as instructions are followed
  • Relationships grow as they cook and share with others
  • Science concepts are explored e.g. yeast – the interaction of ingredients
  • Using tools and equipment develops mastery skills
  • An opportunity to learn about customs, traditions and cultures from around the world.
     
     

Painting – Waituhi

 

Learning objectives:

 

  • Developing a sense of enjoyment in painting for self and others
  • Spatial awareness
  • Learning about properties of substances and using different materials
  • Develops imagination
  • Experimenting with colour mixing provides wonderful opportunities to lean about quantities and measuring and the real life application of these skills
  • Encourages creativity
  • Investigation of abstract concepts
  • Develops hand eye coordination and small motor skills later required for writing
  • Helps develop artistic appreciation
  • Develops important cognitive processes such as knowledge translated into a visual representation as they often paint what they know and feel rather than what they see.
  • Encourages children to express themselves in non verbal ways
  • Opportunities to use a variety of tool and mediums
  • Learning about colour, texture, shape, design, patterns, perspective and other pre-maths concepts.

Messy Play – Kori Paru

Learning objectives:

 

  • Children will develop motor skills required for literacy.

  • Messy play helps develop a sense of rhythm and timing, skills used in other areas such as music and writing.

  • Children will learn to enjoy the opportunity for quiet, individual or observational play

  • Math’s strategies develop such as children learn to divide up equipment, counting is involved as they count who has how many objects.

  • As children explore with messy play movements are encouraged and expression and creativity explored.

  • Messy play encourages relaxation and enjoyment of the process rather than the end result

  • Messy play is a sensory experiences where children will learn about different textures such as smooth, silky, slimy, rough, hard and sort.

  • Messy play provided for a range of social interaction such as parallel or cooperative play.

  • Interacting with messy play affirms individual and self esteem as children engage in original and spontaneous play without preset ideas.

  • Children learn relationship skill and strategies for the equitable sharing of space and equipment

  • Interacting with messy play also come with learning safety and hygiene practices.

  • Scientific experimentation with the interaction of substances such as mixing of colour and mixing of ingredients.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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