Saturday, November 24, 2012

WORKING TOGETHER AND HELPING EACH OTHER


This is one of my favorite activities to do with children and is the first working together activity I do for our Community Building unit during the month of October.  Two or three children work together and help each other to make one thing out of play dough.  They need to pose questions and discuss what they will make and how they will do it while also making sure each person is participating.  The children really get into this activity and often make a few different things together.  Here, they are making snow people and caterpillars.  
This year, instead of two children working on one paper with two paintbrushes...two friends worked together with one paintbrush!  It was amazing to see the coordination and cooperation for this activity!!  Here they are painting together...

Dipping the brush in the water together...

Painting together....

Adding more paint to the brush together...

Painting together...

Adding more paint together...And later in the week...



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We worked together and helped each other make a person...again we used one pencil and had to cooperate and communicate how to draw the picture.  They came out great!!

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