This is week is the last week of placement. My placement group got moved to a temporary site in Sunshine Library because of some difficulties with our original site. Being able to come to a new site opened my mind on a lot of things that I saw. The way they enagaged children with place at their placement is a lot different to mine because we had limited of resources and restrictions. Though they weren't able to do the nature walk outside, they decided to collect mint leaves and bark to make a little rainforest in a cardboard box using the Bartja and mayila puppet set. I found this quite interesting because kids were able to smell and feel what its like to be out in a rainforest. I want to take upon this idea and broaden it in my next experience of placement by creating a mini rainforest with sounds of the rainforest in the background so it can really capture the experience children can of the rainforest and its surroundings.
I wonder if there are any other ways that i can link place-thought to without having to go outside...
I am glad to hear that this change in placement gave you some more options when it came to an engaging with place activity. I think playing bird sounds and other audio is a great way to enhance this experience. You could expand on the activity by maybe introducing more native plants and objects into the activity allowing for more variation.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few things you could do without going outside, you could try discussing what was their before the buildings and the car parks and all the modern things, what would they expect to see, animals, plants or people. Get them to draw it, describe it to you, tell a story or let them use another method to express their opinion.