Showing posts with label symbolic play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symbolic play. Show all posts

Monday, 9 January 2017

Winter celebration of light

Despite there being so little light through a European winter, Indy and I are still finding enough to photograph light through glass. We are working our way through Nana's incredible glass collection! And playing with our distorted glass lenses. Look at the beautiful colours we are seeing and the effects of the distorted glass.


Indy's started learning how to process photos - contrast/ sharpness/ exposure/ colour temperature - using the simple tools you get when you open a photo on the Mac: Preview-Tools-Adjust Color. Indy moves slider while I hold click. And we've been noticing how this simplifies the image.


We're discovering that there are so many possible variations when changing these parameters.




Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Loose Parts - Inspiring Play in Young Children

Today we received a wonderful gift from the lady who was really our Reggio mentor and massive inspiration in Singapore. It's called Loose Parts - Inspiring Play in Young Children. It is not only wonderful because it conveys its message predominantly in photos, but because the authors create a really useful framework for loose parts play with many mini case studies, interpreting and categorising children's intentions when they play with loose parts.

Here is their framework:

Senses

Colour
Texture
Sound

Creativity

Art
Design
Symbolic Play


Action

Movement
Transporting
Connecting/ Disconnecting


Inquiry

Construction
Investigation
Correlation

Monday, 3 October 2016

Symbolic play

Indigo creates a bed and pyjamas for her new horsey friends to take a nap with her collected finds today.