In the last session we went to the Chatedral and than the Design Museum.
Philip gave us a paper with excercises and ideas in it, how can we go to the musseum with the children.
This is really important to bring the children to museums and teach them, how interesting could it be.

My favourites were the little figures, which were in random places everywhere in the museum.

4. session - Comicbooks

This lesson Philip told us some interesting thing about belgian comic books. There is a famous story about a flemish boy and his dog - Nello and Patrashe. The original story is a novel by an english author but now it's better knowed in Belgium, and has been adapted into many films and animes - even in Japan.
In Antwerp there is a sculpture about them.

In the other  part of the lesson we made our own comic books together with little "sculptures".

We worked in 4-5 goups, every goups had a big paper but after every excrsice we had to go to the next group's paper. We had lot of tasks with it and finally we arrived to our first paper again -but it was totaly different. It was a really funny activity I want to try it with children at home!!

And my own "comic book":

3. session - How can we use media in the classroom?

We got some really good idea in this lesson.
At home the oldes teacher don't really like when the children use computers or tablet - because they don't know these stuffs. But this new generation (includeing us) can use the new technology to learn lot of new things - if we know how to use it. So first of all, we as a teacher have to teach them how to use the computer, tablet or phone in a good way.

These progammes, apps are good examples what we can use in the future.
My favourite was the Photodanz, so when I went home for the Easter holiday I showed this app to my younger brother and sister and my best friend Anna, and they made lot of funny gifs with it.. :)

I show you some of these:

To this session we had to choose one painting and we had to create an activity with it.

My activity:

- the painting:

(Szinyei Merse Pál : The baloon)

- with 10-12 years old children
- I plan this project for a week
- first we can talk about baloons, about flying; what they know about it, is there anyone who already has some experience with ballons or airplane, ....
- make a stop motion video whith the childre like they are flying (PHOTOSPLASH)
- finally we can made balloon with papier maché

2. session - about puppets

In the first part of the lesson we were drawing while everybody arrived. I've never drew like this, and I really liked it! We put a branch on our paper and at first we just drew it around and then decorate with painting with our fingers. It is a really good idea for those people, who always "afraid" of the empty paper - like me. I really like to draw, but when I have an empty paper, I never know what can I draw on it. But in this way  I had something on my paper and I could work with it.

The second part was about the puppets. 

We made a puppet with papier maché, and sculptuers from clay. When we made the clay scalptures, there was again a really good idea for those pupils who never know what to do with the clay - there was no time to think about what can we do, Philip told a story and we just had 10 sec to do it, it didn't matter how does it look like. And I still remember the story, what we heard when we made our sculptures! :)

My puppet before:

And after:

Philip told lot of interesting things about the puppets, how famous thing it is here in Belgium.
Now I would like to write some  interesting thing about how we can use it in primary schools or kindergardens in Hungary.

We have puppet classes in our university, where we can learn how can we use the puppets in kindergarden. This is a very good thing, because the children really like it, you can teach them with puppets.

Honestly I don't really like puppets yet, but I know how good could it be for the children.

The first who came into my mind about this topic was my mother. She is a primary school teacher in Hungary, she teaches in the first and second grade (6-8 years old children). Oppositly with my opinion she always use puppets when she is teaching, and she do puppet shows with  the children every year and they enjoy it so much. 

I asked my mother to tell me what does she think about this theme. I don't want to translate the whole, because it is a bit long but I try to write down the important parts. 

She told me that in a puppet show "everything can happen". The child can hide behind a panel, he/she can change to another person or animal, through this he/she can play out his/her real feelings. When they make puppet shows in small groups, the children learn to work together, and they can create something new together and then they can show it to the others - they always adore it. The closed children become braver and the others can learn lot of important things with it. 

Usually she uses puppets what she bought, but sometimes they make it for them selves. I have some photo about puppets what we made with my mother and her husband for a puppet show:

This is a bis dragon's head what we made with papiet maché

This is a "firebird" - the children can play a game to collect the feathers

And this kind of puppets they use in the school and in the kindergardens. We also have small ones, and lot of other caracters and animals too.

There are some photos, what we took in the Art class.

Upside down

 Guess, where is this..

Pictures

For the weekend, I went to Paris as you can see!

Oke, no, I'm just kidding.. ;)

First impressions

The first class was so exciting for me. I'm always a bit shy and self-contained in new situations. I felt it in the first moment that this is something different.

In my school we always sit behind the tables it doesn't metter how creative you can be you just have to execute which is obviously not good.

The games what we played in the beginig were usefull for me, games, what I can use at home when I'm teaching. I knew that we are going to learn many new things and I really like it.

I looking forward to see what we will do next time!

The discussion what we had at the end of the class just showed me how important to creat your own things than sitting behind the table, It's more undying.