The Ribbon Painting

This was a collaborative piece of work created over the first week back in term 3 by several of our children. Click on images to enlarge.

It looks Fantastic on the wall!

Abby.

An Enlightening 20 minutes about our Children's Future

This is an enlightening speech that Ken Robinson gives regarding our schooling system and children's creativity. He talks about children's creativity being just as important in this day and age as literacy, and that they should be treated with the same status.
Creativity is about having the freedom to explore ideas without judgement. It's about taking risks! - This is where problem solving, original thought and new ideas come from!
He speaks about the need to reassess our school curriculum's - to encourage creativity not squash it. We need to provide an education system that supports and fosters our 21st century learners.

Very Inspiring!

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” - Pablo Picasso.

Abby.

Fashion Designers

Gok, watch out! We have our own little fashion designers at Grasslands Kindergarten. The children dressed the cut out dolls using material scraps. They designed their own outfits. This activity allowed the children to design in their head then select materials, arrange and alter their garments and model them! As you can see they got very creative. Fantastic work tamariki!

There is some debate about whether we should use templates with children because one school of thought is that it can stifle children's creativity and originality. However as we have shown templates can be used to support the development of the children's own original ideas! We just need to think beyond the obvious and get creative as educators!

Jo