Yesterday, Tai pulled me aside to tell me something important: "Camille, I have a bike with training wheels and it's really fun." So today we explored what it means and how it feels to ride their bicycles. Here were some of their thoughts:
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| Brainstorming chart |
Jeffery - I like to go fast from way up high
Orin - I like doing wheelies, jumps and cartwheels
Tai - I like going super fast, it makes me happy
Alexis - I like to ride at the playground
Pippa - I like to go to the bike cafe
Pauline - I ride on my deck with a helmet
Lysander - I go so fast I can fly, I love it
The Children's Bicycles
For thie artwork we used two circles and one triangle. The children know their shapes and they can identify that the wheels are circular, but some disagreed with my choice of a triangle as a frame. The process takes precedent so that the children can feel free to describe their creation to me.
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| Orin - there are four seat..the bike transforms into a race car. |
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| Alexis |
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| Tai - My bike turns into a spaceship |
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| Pauline - jets in the back make it fast |
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| Lysander |
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| Pippa |
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| Jeffery - My bike has wings so it can fly |
At the very end of our time, the children wanted to play, so I stood back and watched something amazing. A few children gravitated towards the locktagons- a construction toy. The built bicycles- flying bicycles! The cognitive leap from conceptualizing something on paper and then creating what they imagined, is quite an accomplishment! The children are developing their visual-spacial processing during their impromptu play. This lead me to ask...are jets and wings the only way to make your bicycles go really fast? Perhaps we will explore this tomorrow ...
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| Orin showing Jeffery how to make the wheels |
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| Orin flying his bicycle |
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| Jeffery's bicycle |
The child's mind is a creative wonder!
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Oh yes, Buzz Lightyear, said it best ....to infinity and beyond !
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