“when children play, the world wins”
For our creative arts project, we decided to support the Right to PLAY charity that supported the notion that when children play, the world wins.
As a group, we thought this charity’s objective really hit home with early childhood’s philosophy of play, and children being active in their learning and in their childhood in general.
With that said, we wanted to promote more awareness of
“Sport incentive” amongst children, families, and the community. Having sport incentive, we felt can educate children on leadership, foster role models and promote peace and give children hope for the future.
Picture yourself playing a game of your favourite sport. What things come to mind? Some might say that we are engaged in competition, and fun or acts as a stress reliever. All those things are awesome components related to sports but also we forget about our differences in the world, such as our colour, religion, and cultural background- again we are merely there just to play the game and have fun!
This tolerance and understanding of gender parity among people, we learn to value that and ultimately makes us a better human beings.
Again, the concept of sport alone cannot ensure peace or solve complex social problems alone, but should instead, be positioned as a highly effective tool in a broader toolkit of development practices and should be applied in a holistic manner to achieve optimal results in children.
OUR BIG IDEA:
we want to support and facilitate children who are disadvantaged through the use of sport, physical activity and play to attain a specific development and peace objectives.
OBJECTIVE:
Flash Mob viral video, and stress ball
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| Storyboard on how we were going to shoot the Flash Mob Viral Video |
REFLECTION:
I found that our group did really well in that we were effective in communicating our stance and our big idea.
I thought everyone contributed key points in their parts that they presented, allowing each member to feed off each others points to allow our big idea to go further, and allow discussion amongst us and our peers in our group. The only thing that I think we could have done differently would be to maybe to actually design the stress balls that were apart of our “take-away: for the class.
Other than that, I felt we followed through with what we planned to do with our big idea!
As an Early Childhood Educator...i think its great to give children exposure to to diversity and social justice, but obviously introduced to them in a child-friendly way. During circle time, create a visual bristol board on a community issue such as one mentioned above. Get children to understand the issue, have children discuss what they have learned, and then formulate an activity that contributes and demonstrates their understanding of the foundations cause. Also bring in guest speakers to talk about their cause with the children!
In this project, Design was used to describe our position through the use of art, in this case a storyboard of our viral video. The design to demonstrate our concept was our overall composition. I feel what we intended to do with the storyboard, definitely turned out like we wanted it to look!
I thought everyone contributed key points in their parts that they presented, allowing each member to feed off each others points to allow our big idea to go further, and allow discussion amongst us and our peers in our group. The only thing that I think we could have done differently would be to maybe to actually design the stress balls that were apart of our “take-away: for the class.
Other than that, I felt we followed through with what we planned to do with our big idea!
As an Early Childhood Educator...i think its great to give children exposure to to diversity and social justice, but obviously introduced to them in a child-friendly way. During circle time, create a visual bristol board on a community issue such as one mentioned above. Get children to understand the issue, have children discuss what they have learned, and then formulate an activity that contributes and demonstrates their understanding of the foundations cause. Also bring in guest speakers to talk about their cause with the children!
Art Word of the Week: Design or Composition
Is the overall mark of success and the standard of achievement. Design or Composition may attempt to address whether the artist had accomplished what he or she intended to do. (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009).
References
Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J. E. (2009). Art & Creative Development for Young Children (6 ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar.
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