This week in Caledonia, finding textures meant finding possibilities. While the children were being introduced to the clay, they began thinking about how they could explore their everyday camp space (their classroom) and make their own discoveries, unique to them.
The children asked,
“What about the lego?”
“What about the chair? Will that have a texture?”
“What about the beads?”
And suddenly their observations became even more meaningful. Not only did the children notice different textures– smooth, rough, bumpy– but they revealed what they noticed, what caught their attention in the room, and what was important to them.
The observations simply became contagious, and one discovery gave inspiration to everyone else.