Collaborative Watercolor
May 26, 2021 | Sossi Essajanian
Finally the time had come to let their birds fly and soar!
This week the Sky Class children worked together to paint a sky using watercolors. The sky will serve as the background for their birds to fly high above the class tree.
This work helped them foster their collaborative skills.
Collaboration helps children learn from each other.
They…
- Discover each other’ strengths and interests
- Effectively communicate
- Learn to cooperate (the ability to balance one’s own needs with someone else’s)
- Make decisions and solve problems
- Practice taking turns, sharing, and empathy
- Understand different perspectives
- Work toward a common goal
- Negotiate and compromise
To paint a large space, the children needed to use different brushes.
What do you notice about this brush?
It’s blue, watery.
I notice that it’s big and soft.
Then it was time to work together to fill the space.
The children began working together…
I’m going to do the bottom and you can do the top. Yes.
We can work together on this part.
Look for white spots so we can paint those spots.
Let’s work together! How about I go first? Ok.
He said its too high for him so I got it.
This blue sky is going to look awesome!
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