"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
- Maria Montessori
- Maria Montessori
We believe that when children engage in drawing intricate representations of the world around them, such as they have done with the Autumn leaves and trees, they are gaining a deeper appreciation of their world and seeing it again as if for the first time. In addition to this, they are engaging in higher order thinking skills that stretch them to reach results beyond their expectations.
Today the girls painted their beautiful Autumn trees. We revisited the ideas we had discussed
earlier about what colour tones they would need for the leaves, and how they needed to think about balancing out the different colours of the leaves around the tree.
The girls experimented with using the brushes to get different effects.
You can see from the concentration on their faces the level of engagement this work created.
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