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The first regular newspaper was made in 1447 by Johann Gutenberg it was the Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, appeared in Germany. The first English-language newspaper, called the Weekly Newes was published in England in 1622. Narrowing it down, the first newspaper published in Australa was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, which began n 1803. They were about four pages and appeared on or two days a week, initially featuring woodcut engravings and in the nineteenth century black and white photographs began to appear.

Poem by Uma Anandane 2012

Coming together

to raise more people

to understand

important history

to public

will inspire forces

kick-start believe share

great heritage

showcase sense of pride

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We use paper for almost everything but one thing that came to mind was newspapers, it is the most unique and informational usage of paper. Not only is paper used to create any different art with different colours but they also carry information. It is also one of the easiest way to create art and a cheap way as well. I then added an image made by an organization where they cut out bits of words from different papers and try and make proper sentences out of them, this activity creates a new way of thinking, I would definitely love to carry out this activity with children and see how their brain works in joining the words together. I have added my stop motion video to show another way in which paper could be used. According to Pacini Ketchabaw, Kind and Kocher 2016, to know paper is not just to describe its properties or attributes, but to learn how it moves and to describe what happens to it as it shifts.

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“In general I believe school do not attach importance to the aethetic dimension in learning because they consider it to be a pleasurable aspect but fundamentally superfluous, not strictly necessary.” (Gandini, Hill, Cadwell… 2015)

According to those authors, it is mentioned that it is necessary to go beyond what teachers or educators have already introduced into schools, for instance the types of materials and the use of certain materials and methods to use them.

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The Empowered Educator (Jade 2021)

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In this particular inquiry it somewhat takes me back to the days I was a child and exploring the environment me, I remember at school we had huge trees and its roots are so huge that they use to be spread out all over and instead of being inside the soil it would be on the ground instead. The branches had different patters and shapes and we use to play with whatever was there. My friends and I we loved to play cooking, so we use to add water into the tree branch which seemed perfect as a bowl or a pot, and we use to add the sand and stones and use sticks to mix the ingredients and I recall it being so fun and engaging although now it may seem ridiculous. At home we used to have a store room where we store all our old house stuff and somehow, I used to like playing there although it was creepy with all the bugs and insects, but I spent a lot of time gong through scrap to find something I can play with.

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According to McMinn 2021, While working with clay, children are building skills in language development, problem-solving, fine and gross motor development, social skills, mathematical concepts (i.e. size and weight), and praxis development (the ability to practice and process theories).

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Developmental growth:

Manipulating (squishing, squeezing, pulling, pushing, etc.) a piece of clay helps develops the child’s large and small muscles – improving dexterity

Fosters eye-hand coordination.

Builds a child's ability to focus/builds attention span

Mathematical Understandings:

Fosters beginning pattern making

Builds an experiential understanding of 3-dimensional shapes

Tactical experience of size and weight differences

Literacy growth:

Builds vocabulary – pound, pinch, roll, flatten, poke, tear squeeze, coil, stretch, squash, twist, and bend

Creative storytelling with clay pieces

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As an adult, when I got my hands on the clay and had a go at experimenting with clay, I had a lot to learn. First off it was not easy to shape and wanting the clay to look like what I had in mind, I had to put in a lot of effort and time. This is definitely a very important way of bringing play for children and they get to improve on a lot of skills and use their brain to think, plan and act. As we can see according to McMinn, the benefits of clay making and how it allows children to explore their capabilities and enhance their hand-eye coordination and so on.

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It is easy to take light for granted. It is everywhere around us, looking at lighting in nature, where we enjoy the first ray of sunrise, the midday sun beating down, bonfires or campfires in front of us with its many different colours and even to fireflies, light works in very different unique ways. Moving on to artificial light where we are exposed for the majority of the day when we use our phones and laptop. Hence it will be important for children to properly learn and explore why some lights seem different then the others and to play around with light (MK Productions 2018)

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The amount of different coloured lights there are, by using LED lights and how they twinkle in many different ways, the technology of it will never fail to amuse me. Moreover, light itself has a very significant use, and sometimes I wonder how we would survive at night if Thomas Edison had not invented light, we would have an huge stock of candles and matchsticks. Other than that, there are more to it that that, the physics of light and how it can be reflected, refracted all comes into existence is extraordinary.

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Overall, through this unit, I was really amazed at finally zooming in my focus on the materials I can use in my teaching. Sometimes children have to learn it the hard way, they have to go out an explore and observe for their own and learn from that, and we as teachers want them to get the best learning experience they can, and allowing them to play around with different materials and being in a different environment itself will help them. Playing with junk/loose objects really opened my eyes that it is not necessary for kids to conform to a particular routine everyday but should be given the chance to expand their minds with different and ore challenging situations and environments.

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Anandane, A 2012, Newspaper Poem, Rhythmus, My World! My World! Viewed on 15th oof March

R H Y T H M U S : Newspaper Poem (umaspoembook.blogspot.com)

Booker, Ellis. "Extra! Extra! Newspapers Paperless." Computerworld, July 20, 1992, p. 30.
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Newspaper.html#ixzz6pITD9e12

McMinn R, 2021, The Importance of Clay Play, viewed on 15th march 2021

https://lowermanhattan.macaronikid.com/articles/5c3d19133fd7b3604fefbf49/the-importance-of-clay-play

MK Productions, Lighting up our lives: why light is so important to humans, viewed on 13th march 2021

https://www.mk-illumination.com/article/lighting-up-our-lives-why-light-is-so-important-to-humans/#:~:text=Bright%20white%20lights%20glaring%20off%20walls%20create%20a%20clinical%20atmosphere.&text=Low%20light%20keeps%20our%20emotions,control%20our%20behavior%20is%20important.

https://www.poemsearcher.com/topic/newspaper

Pacini-Ketchabaw V, Kind S, Kocher L.M., 2016, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education, last viewed on 15th march 2021

ProQuest Ebook Central - Reader

The Empowered Educator, 10 easy ideas for sensory sand play, viewed on 15th march 2021

https://www.theempowerededucatoronline.com/2015/04/10-easy-ideas-for-sensory-sand-play.html/