V the planner.

  



V is using a black marker pen to draw his picture of the Conway castle, be begins this by drawing circles that represents the top towers of the castle. Then he add's more detail of the castle by drawing lines and boxes,which is the second level of the castle in which V decided that they were rooms for himself and his family. The wriggly line that V drawed further down the page is the bridge that helps him to cross from the castle to the other side.

In this learning of V, drawing helps him to extend upon his interests in construction but this time he is drawing the castle, where he discovers that he can be creative and expressive, in te whariki it says that children learn the "skill an confidence with the process of ....drawing...(Ministry of Education, 1996, p.80) this shows evidence that V is building upon another skill that links to his interest in construction.

 Another learning is that as teachers we should respect space as this allows children to grow and for V it allowed him to go at his own pace and to appreciate the work that he has produced. This is one of V, 8th drawing on different buildings in the world and by collecting his work it helps him to re look at his progress in his drawing. It says that "the teacher plans to offer the children their drawings to revisit the thinking...." (Pelo, 2007, p.108). That is the learning process that will help V to do recalling and building on a culture of inquiry.

In V picture he used familiar shapes to create his castle and there are mathematical concepts that he understands through his drawing so there is maths concepts being developed through his drawing and "children learn maths through making their own discoveries and using ....tools to help them" (McNaughton & Williams, 2004. p.22). It is true that children develop "a perception of themselves as "explorers"...." (Ministry of Education, 2004, p.4). By supporting his work, I have linked his work as part of the construction project, where it shows now individual work process in drawing buildings, but this time looking at it from a book and trying to create a portfolio where his work and other children's work can be shared and displayed to his friends, families other parents and staff. In Smorti it says that technology the importance is the process not the product (Smorti, 1999) and I believe that this is what makes learning fundamental is collecting data from the children and to extend on their interests.

References:

MacNaughton, G., & Williams, G. (2004). Techniques for teaching young children: Choices in theory and practice (2nd ed.). Frenchs Forrest, NSW, Australia, Pearson Prentice Hall.

Ministry of Education. (1996). Te Whariki: He whariki matauranga mo nga mokopuna o Aotearoa. Wellington: Learning Media.

Ministry of Education. (2004). Kei tua o te pae assessment for learning: Early childhood exemplars.

Pelo, A. (2007). The Language of art: Inquiry-based studio practices in early childhood settings. Yorkton, Canada: Redleaf Press.

Smort, S. (1999). Technology in Early Childhood. Early Education, No.19 Autumn 1999.