Teacher Lotty and the creative art work~

Do you remember I had introduced one of the teacher in Sri Suria, Teacher Loty? She is a very nice teacher that full of patience and creativity. Yesterday afternoon I went up to the classroom to take some pictures of the children and teacher's work. I found that the art and craft work that they made are seriously creative! Although some of you all may say that it is imposible that the children of the age 2-4 can done these, neither do I. However all these works are done together by the children and teacher. The ideas of the work is created by the teacher, and it is the hardest part that the teacher have to plan how to let the children fully participate and as well they learn during the process of working on it.

Here are some pictures of the lessons being conducted and some final result from the children and teacher.

Teacher Loty introducing the project that the children are going to do. Can you guess what is the project about?

Yes! A cow! besides doing art and craft, the teacher as well introduce the name of the body part of a cow.

Semi-done project~

Final product! Absolutely look like a cow! Right? Do you know the name of the body part? There are some tags on it.

Here is another project that working on by Juaner. Do you know what is it?

Life cycle of a plant...from seeds to baby plants, then to an adult plant, coming with blossom and maturing. Can't see it? The children might know it!



Some other projects...
Octopus! Cute right?!



Bird on it's nest...


Life cycle of the frog...

A cat? Nope, its a tiger!


Some sharing from Nic...
Children are very interested on art and craft. A well planned art and craft project can let children of different age group learn different skills and knowledge of their own stage. In Sri Suria I request the teacher to plan project for a mixed age group of 2-4 years old. Some of them might ask, "How can a mixed age group children can learn in a same project?" Yes they do, but only with a good lesson plan. For example, during the project of cow, a child of age 2 might only learn simpler knowledge such as the name of the animal, cow; he as well can practice the skills of pasting and coloring. These are the skills to develop their fine motor skills(the skills and the strenght of fingers), it is very important for the future pencil grip. For a elder child, he can learn and practice more advance things in the project. For example, he can learn the name of the body part of the cow, he can learn the living habbits of the cow, or even he can learn how to spell and write the word of 'cow'. As a conclusion, a well planned project may let a group of mixed age children learn lots of things. If parents that have time may try on it. Its fun and meaningfull! But remember, try to use recycle materials =)