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Promoting Creative Thinkers
July 18, 2012
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-Groucho Marx
-Groucho Marx
"From birth, young children are learning about the world around them and attempting to make sense of what they see and experience. They need adults who first and foremost protect, love, and meet their basic needs, and who are genuinely interested in what they think and do. What makes working and living with children so fascinating and rewarding is our ability to delight in the everyday discoveries that enchant a child: to listen, probe, reflect on, and stand back or respond in ways that show them their ideas and interests matter to us.
"Watch a scientist at work as a toddler places an acorn on a slide, runs to retrieve it, and repeats the experiment over and over. Find out what is behind the thinking of a preschooler who groups a pig with a cup in a classification task. When she replies, “Well, I’m not really sure if a pig gives milk, but if it does, it needs a cup to put it in,” you have a starting point to help her extend her knowledge. The more we convey our genuine interest, the more likely children are to share what they think and to become confident, creative thinkers."
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Displaying 1 CommentInternational consultant and Artist
Leominster, MA, United States
Similar creative stories that I think are profound was the first, a four year old girl was having tea in a beautiful garden with her mom and myself in London, England. A ladybug which in England is referred to a 'Ladybird,' flew into her little hand. She walked over to another patron who was sipping tea, as she held up her hand with the ladybird for her to see, asked? 'Do you think she knows she is a ladybird?'
The next story after my hands-on workshop ‘Stonework in the Making’ at the Global Collaborative International World Forum On-Design for Children in Berkeley, California June 26-29, 2012, At Otisco Lake, near Syracuse, New York, four american children made stonework on the deck facing the water. My great niece wrote after seriously gathering the stones and then placing them how she wanted wrote to tell about what she did. She named it "The Sun of Different Colors and Weather' ' In the middle of my sun is two hearts, representing care and the red stone represents that everybody is different and the little rocks on the outside in between the big one is rain. So I made rain and the sun together. I made lots of red rocks on the outside of the little sun because of thunder and lightening." Maddie lives in Kentucky and is 9 years old.
The other child who is from California and 8 years old after finishing her stone piece wrote'The Happy Sun' Once there was a happy Sun. The happy Sun decided to go for a walk. On his way he met a parrot. The parrot said ‘you are so hot’ to the Sun. The Sun said, ”thanks.” The parrot said, “would you like some mango smoothie?’ The Sun said “Of, course, thanks a lot.” Then they walked to a bar in the rainforest. The Sun said, “How much do they cost?” The parrot laughed. The parrot said” They’re for free because I work here.” The Sun liked that place and the parrot said ”Would you like a job here, because we have one more slot. And so he did. And they lived happily ever after. The end.
For more information on how to do 'stonework' with your children check out 'Five Birthday Cakes" on Youtube, read the comments and you are welcome to write one yourself.
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