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The Dot
After reading “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds, we created our own dot artwork. This involved tamariki exploring shapes and creating their own dots. They trialled different ways; swirling the pen, or jabbing it at the paper were two successful ways of making a circle mark. Tamariki made their own mini dot works, which we stuck together to make a quilt-like piece of art.
We then used Kandinsky Concentric Circles as inspiration for some watercolour art and collage. Tamariki needed to consider their approach when beginning with watercolours. Through discussion, they found the best idea was, to begin with a dot in the middle. They then added different coloured circles around this moving out across the page. For the collage, they needed to sort their chosen circles and stack them in size order.
This involved using ideas and maths language such as smaller than and larger than, bigger, little, biggest, and smallest. Tamariki needed to alter their thinking for the collage. The best approach for this artwork was beginning with the largest circle and getting smaller. One of the things that Kaiako enjoyed over the week of Dots, was the encouragement tamariki gave to each other. The conversations generated around the art table as they worked on their own masterpieces and the various ways they had tried were lovely to hear and witness.
“The Dot,” has become a favourite story in our room.