A Thousand Pardons for the Delay

After a month of forgetting to post, I'm back and I'm here to make it up.

Many of the following posts will not be observations of the class so much as an analysis of outside sources to enrich the course.

But until then, let's catch up on some important points.

Before Spring

Before all the kindergartners went off on spring break, they finished up their creativity unit by all painting, drawing, or otherwise creating works of art.

For someone who's taken three semesters of psychology, what particularly interested me was that in the dead of winter, all these children drew pictures of blossoming flowers, greening trees, and blue skies. They were ready for spring and summer again!

After they were done creating them, all the pieces of art were hung up in the hallway. The children were then brought out one-by-one and were asked three questions:

1) What do you think it means to be creative?

2) What can creative people do?

 

3) What is your favorite painting? Why? What does it remind you of?

It was a fun experience, and a good way to leave off for the Break.

What follows

In order to add some color and outside influence to my learning, I and my sponsor have decided that I ought to read, analyze, and apply some outside articles on teaching and teaching method. That is what I'll be doing for some of the following blogs.