Journal entry #6#Praxis&Play In the Beatte lesson during Friday's class, we focused on the exploration of materials through using tissue paper. The students were given an assortment of tissue paper in a variety of colors to explore with in their sketchbooks. During this lesson I witnessed students laying the tissue paper down flat, crumpling them up, and layering the tissue paper on top of each other to create different colors. While also watching the students view the tissue paper colors bleeding through onto their paper, and mixing into new colors. This whole project is an example of play and Praxis through materials, the students had a whole class to experiment with how the tissue paper reacted to the watered down glue, the use of other tissue paper, and the glueing down to the sketchbook paper.
This experience for me showed the importance again about having time for students to explore their materials. For the start of projects its good to give students time to utilize and play with the materials before they start creating their final projects. It connects back to the idea of Praxis and play that I really enjoyed learning about in the last semester's class, where we created projects solely on the play surrounding materials. Watching students interact with materials and creating what they want, while also watching the students learn what they can and can't do with the material. I think that from this practice with the tissue paper first, when they start to work on the final project of creating and adding to a tree, they can reflect on what they did. Did they crumple the paper up to create texture and add that to the tree for leaves, maybe they will use it to create texture on the tree, or around the tree. These are the things the 3rd and kindergarteners will learn from after the Praxis or the materials. In my next phase of teaching i'm definitely going to allow more time for exploration of materials in the sketchbooks so help them think deeper about the materials, and maybe effect the way they create the final project.
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