Consistent with our philosophy to encourage participation in developing curriculum, we provide children the opportunity to contribute their ideas to any activity or theme introduced or in process. We asked the children if the wanted to "design" their own tiles for their parents to "copy" for the curriculum night project. What could we use? Friends thought "markers, jewels, sparkles, hearts, and buttons." We set out the materials needed and friends selected the colors and quickly came up with their unique master pieces for their mommies and daddies to duplicate on the tile pieces. Friends will be adhering the decorated tile pieces to our newly constructed Aron Kodesh at a later time.We asked them IF they thought their parents could do it. All of our friends thought "YES". Parents did not disappoint! The teachers grouped all the thoughts onto the lists of materials, without identifying, each child to their specific idea. Teachers take note, some friends said "mommy forgot the hearts, or mommy forgot the buttons." Clearly the children became invested in their creations and took great pride in them. Not to worry, situation resolved, mommy came in the next day and added the hearts. Situation resolved to everyone's satisfaction!!! Great job mommy!!!
I love how you describe your philosophy of developing the curriculum with the children and then actually show us how that happened with this project. And the idea of having the children leave instructions for the parents really adds an interesting twist- it must have been tricky for them to copy all of those scribbles and lines. Thanks for sharing the process.
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