Clara's class learned about oceans the last few weeks of school. They were tasked with choosing a sea creature and creating a shoebox biome telling all about their animal. Initially, Clara chose dolphins but when I reminded her about the sea turtle documentary she had just watched, her eyes lit up with excitement.
She had so much fun making this with me. We brainstormed ideas and she was very unhappy every time we put it away to work on later. If you can't see, there is a crab and sea gull that are trying to get two baby sea turtles on the beach, a momma sea turtle laying eggs, a raft of seaweed with babies floating on it and another sea turtle eating sea weed.
Now you may be looking at this and thinking I did it all myself, but that is not true. I got her to recall some things that were on the documentary and helped her brainstorm how she could illustrate them in her biome and then helped with the hard parts (the beach, hanging stuff and cutting out her drawings). She did the drawing, painting, making sea anemones, play doh, and gluing with minimal assistance. I thought about being almost completely hands off, but I'm not sure how she'll learn to do some really creative stuff unless I help her at this early age. It's not like a teacher can assign a project of this magnitude to a kindergartener and expect them to do it all by themselves. Right? Please tell me if I'm delusional and whether you would have made your kindergartener do the whole thing themselves. I really do want to know because I don't want to be one of those parents who does all their kids' projects for them. Now when she's in 3rd grade? Yeah, she's on her own for the most part.
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