Nature Play On Vancouver Island

Nature Kindergarten On Vancouver Island

Everybody has their own method of  teaching  art. In Kindergarten we do a lot of different kinds of art and for this age it more about the process then the product.  Once the skill has been taught we usually do  quite  a few projects with it. Some examples of different techniques that we used this year are paper, collage, box, beading, nature, water colour painting, clay and pastels. When doing the followup projects I begin with table talk to generate ideas, have a few different samples on hand and then ask the students to make their decision. Then I open my store. The children loved doing leave art with fresh leaves in the fall The store is a round table in the centre of the room with the collage materials on it. I also include  materials specific to the technique. For example we have been working on habitat as our year long inquiry. Most recently we have been looking at birds and as a wrap-up we compared animals that hatch from eggs with those that do not. Today the s...