The ECEs always tried their best to prepare the children for programming, getting their zoomies out with a dance party or letting them go a little wild outside. During my site visit I introduced Artasia and the theme for this year. The children had just come back from their Canada day parade so they insisted that Canada was their city, we narrowed it down to Ontario and finally Brantford.
Week 3 really stood out to me for this particular site. The children really enjoyed that week’s program, they were pretending to take pictures with their view finders using it like a camera. We started off by saying what we notice when looking at something, different shapes, different colours. What surprises us? “The sky can surprise me! With sunshine, with clouds and rain.” The children noticed some interesting things around the gym, outlets that they never cared to notice before, a poster that was once on the door but got peeled off leaving only a bit of tape behind, piles of toys, their water bottles all lined up, and a few colourful dodge balls trapped behind a hockey net.

The children noticed the absence of something, not just the presence of items around them. The children were curious and observant, noticing what interests them in the mundane and curating beauty from it