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Working with Clay

June 2, 2021 | Sossi Essajanian

This week children explored with clay. Clay come from nature, it is a work of soil. It is made up of plant life, minerals, sand, and silt that have been broken down into very fine particles.

Working with clay…

  • encourages self expression
  • provides sensory stimulation
  • promotes self confidence
  • develops fine and gross motor skills
  • supports problem solving skills
  • helps with hand-eye coordination

This week the children first took a smaller piece of clay and explored.  See what they discovered!

Look, I made shapes and it made what I wanted!                         It’s a big carrot!

Next… ball, slab, and coil

Stay tuned!

Sossi Essajanian

Teacher, Sky Class

Sossi Essajanian is excited to continue her teaching and learning journey at the Mustard Seed School. She began teaching at the United Nations International School where she worked with children and colleagues from around the world. This inspired her to take a primary teaching position abroad in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she lived and worked for two years.

Ms. Essajanian has a passion for supporting children’s social/emotional skills and learning through a loving and caring classroom community. These are built on creating shared understandings and opportunities for children to identify and express their feelings and of those around them. She believes in creating experiences through pair and group work where learning blossoms through social experiences.

Ms. Essajanian also enjoys reading and talking about books and continues to pursue her second passion: editing. She’s worked in various editorial capacities in newspapers, magazines, and books. She was recently excited to serve as the development editor of a children’s book about engineering and is looking forward to leading some tinkering investigations of her own with her students!

In her free time Ms. Essajanian runs, swims laps, and likes to take long walks to explore the world around her.

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