Today the teachers tried a few new things to see if the designs of the yard would be different. We still had the photos of the yard in black and white and we offered the children colored marking tools. We still prompted them with questions such as:
“What would you like to see in our yard?”
“Would draw your ideas for the yard on this photo?”
Today, however, one of the teachers brought some of the photos outdoors. She brought out photos of the slide area, in particular. However, children did end up drawing on other photos indoors and outdoors that are of the other parts of the yard.
This Facebook post shows photos of their drawings and their words about the drawings. We will also post their comments below.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.604794866246994.1073741895.213823248677493&type=1
– “A tree house and a bird”
– “This is Mark” (one child wants Mark, the director, in the yard more)
– “A rainbow over our school and a machine that makes cake”
– “Kites, a rainbow, balloons, a rainbow bicycle… everything to be rainbow except the trees and the sky”
– “Change the color of the park to pink”
– “An aquarium”
– “Everything purple”
– “Everything blue”
– “Kites and volcanoes”
– “Change the color the sky”
– “Wet sand”
– “A swing”
– “A bridge”
– “Plants, flowers”
– “A scarecrow family with a sister and a mom, too”
– “The yard cleaned up” (it was clean up time)
It was interesting to see what the children drew today. The other element that was added was that children from Room 5 also drew on the photos.
We hope you enjoy seeing their plans.