“I’m making a park!” - Saul, 3.6 years On Friday, Saul and Audrey each had the idea to create a playground for their collaged creatures/monsters. Saul used images of lollipops to collage a lollipop playground, while Audrey used paper strips to create (paper bridge) slides for her monster Kiki and it's lovie. Remembering that we have a lot of knowledge about paper, we decided to create paper sculpture playgrounds. We were able to draw on our past paper explorations, the techniques that Maren shared with us, and, of course, our imaginations.
What did we bring? What is our plan?
Revisiting and sharing our paper knowledge“I need this to stand up.” - Giacomo
“A curl!” - Saul, 3.6 years You can also curl your paper if you need any sort of loops or twists. - Elyse “Curl? Can you add it to mine?” - Saul I can’t add it to yours, but you can make one. “I’m going to curl one too. See? Curling." - Saul We can work together. - Naama {offering to hold the pencil for Saul] “That’s good.” - Saul Are you working together with Ima? It looks like Giacomo is working with his mommy too. - Elyse The parents have been the best partners in our virtual classroom. Everything that we do is possible due to collaboration with our parents. Here, Saul and Giacomo were both working with their moms to develop their ideas and accomplish their end goal/idea (e.g. curls). With Naama's help [scaffolding], Saul was able to create a few curls. A few minutes later, he picked up the pencil and resumed his work without any assistance (final photo on bottom right). “I’m making another one. It becomes a little curl. I made a curl! I’m going to use them for Gecko. Gecko the frog is going to jump into the park and walk, walk, walk, walk. You see. He’s happy because he has a nice big park, and he likes to hop in it.” - Saul “Well, I just crumpled some paper [...]." - Giacomo, 4.2 years
Saul's Park
Documenting Saul's work from homeGiacomo's Playground“Mommy, I’m making a playground for Gecko (points to Saul on screen). It’s silly. At night he kind of hides. Maybe he’s just hungry. And in a few days I get him.” - Giacomo
Sharing across the screens and playing gamesDistance and communicating over zoom does not alter our desire to be with each other and share our work. Saul and Giacomo seem to connect well despite our distance.
“You want to play hide-n-seek with me now?” - Saul We can try. How can we do it over zoom? How can we play hide-n-seek? - Elyse “No, we need to find Gecko! Ready? Go! Find Gecko.” - Saul I cover my eyes and count. Ready or not Gecko, here we come! Is he in the tunnel? - Elyse “No! I found him!” - Saul “Wanna do it again? 1..2…3… [counted to 11].” - Saul Ready or not Gecko, here Saully comes! - Elyse “Can you find him?” - Saul Hmm… is he on your playground or Ima’s playground? - Elyse “Ima’s playground!” - Saul So he’s on Ima’s. I don’t think I’ve seen Ima’s playground yet, so I don’t know where to look. - Elyse “He’s hiding in his place. Under here. That is Gecko’s hiding place. He’s watching TV.” - Saul No way! There’s a TV on your playground? - Elyse “No, but there’s a TV on Ima’s playground! He’s watching it because he does’t want to be on his own.” - Saul A few more process photos
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