This week we gave the children many opportunities to explore and discover how Hashem (G-d) made each person unique, and how our face can tell people what we might be feeling!
Self discovery is an important key to a child's success later on in life.
While self discovery is a core component to our curriculum all year round (in that we are always posing questions to the children allowing them to make their own discoveries and understandings), this week we zoomed in to allow each child to discover themselves through a different lens.
During Circle time, each child had an opportunity to make a facial expression, and we took a picture of each child.
Later, we gave each child their printed picture, and asked the child what they think the picture tells us about themselves? The children also were given crayons to draw what they see in the picture.
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| BL said she is "Starring." This is her representational art of the picture! |
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| "I am wearing pants!" |
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| "I am wearing a Blue Hat and socks" |
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| "Sigh" (notice the sigh coming out of her mouth in the drawing!) |
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| "A Challa" |
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| "Angry" | | |
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| "saying Uh oh" Notice the fingers drawn on her cheeks in the drawing! |
It is fascinating to see the levels of development as the children grow. As they enter the 4 and 5 year old age group, they will describe emotional attributes, in contrast to the 2's and 3's who describe the physical attributes.
Another day this week, we put mirrors out at the art table, and different mediums for the children to create FACES of themselves!
Using paper slips with each child's name on it...the children placed their names in the correct column on our "eye color" graph.
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