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Academic Readings
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Kind, S., & Kocher, L. L. M. (2016). Encounters with materials in early childhood education. Taylor & Francis Group.

Atelier Raggio Di Luce - The wonder of learning - 2011. (2012, December 12). YouTube. https://youtu.be/_3iodP-fRKQ

Pelo, A. (2016). The language of art : Inquiry-based studio practices in early childhood settings. Redleaf Press.

Gandini, L., Hill, L. T., Cadwell, L. B., & Schwall, C. (Eds.). (2015). In the spirit of the studio, second edition : Learning from the atelier of reggio emilia. Teachers College Press.

Wave behaviors. (2022, September 3). Science Mission Directorate | Science. https://science.nasa.gov/ems/03_behaviors
Light energy - Knowledge bank - Solar schools. (n.d.). Solar Schools. https://www.solarschools.net/knowledge-bank/energy/types/light

Clay. (2022, November 29). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved June 15, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay

Nycz, J. (2019, February 5). Knowing where your paper comes from: Sustainability is critical. Woodland Paper. https://www.woodlandpaper.com/2019/01/where-paper-sustain/

36 adjectives describing light. (2016, March 5). Daily Writing Tips. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/36-adjectives-describing-light/

ACECQA. https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/acecqa/files/National-Quality-Framework-Resources-Kit/belonging_being_and_becoming_the_early_years_learning_framework_for_australia.pdf

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Color, dye, sky, rainbow, water, messy, wavy, splash, picture, these are the common words come when we are talking about paint.

Paint is carrying all the aspects along with it, socio-cultural through painting cultural background with society living in there such as old times pictures (aboriginal painting), geographical by showing lands, sea, earth, political content in the forms of pictures, posters, newspaper, frames, art on the walls, conveying messages for change, for better growth.

I wonder what will happen if I melt the paint in microwave ?
I wonder what will happen if I mix all the colors together?

POEM-

Paint, Paint your self

Paint the way, you want to show the world

Paint the histories, that are interconnected

Paint the culture, close to nature

Paint the ambitions,

Paint the hopes,

Paint the strengths,

Paint what it stops,

Paint the golden days, which you want to relive,

Paint the sky and  where you believe!

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I dipped the leaf into color and then pressed on to the paper. Leaf left its imprints on the paper with patterned and layered structure.

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I colored the sand with food color. I have noticed that dry sand change into wet and moisture texture.

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I used three colors, added little bit water to change its viscosity. I poured color together and then blow with straw, paint was flowing with external force and traveling like waves of water.

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I rolled, kneed, stretch, pulled,took some pieces and later add some to make tea pot set with a tray of biscuits. I enjoyed exploring the clay, love the dirt on my hand, feel connected to the native land and recalled my childhood memories.
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals.Clay is the oldest known ceramic  material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium.("Clay," 2022)

I wonder what will happen  if I Make a clay boat and it can float?
I wonder what will happen if  use bake clay as crayon?

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After looking at children’s explorations with paint, I can relate this statement with my experience from, Encounters with Materials that Each touch is much more tactile sensory input. It is a hearing-with, a seeing-through. (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al., 2016, p. 59)

Paint is the material which connects human and non-human bodies like paint with the brushes, with their hands, mixing together and become an assemblage.
I want to continue this paint experience to see their creativity and then will display and document children's work to tell how children speaks the language of art.
Paint helps children to develop sensory skills, learning about colors, learning about textures, hand and eye coordination, language development and last but not the least social development, as they are participating in a group, sharing the ideas and exploring the paint with enthusiasm and curiosity. A paint is the one where any one can express their imagination, it like saying something without verbal interaction. I can see the connection of outcome 5, CHILDREN ARE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS - “use language and representations from play, music and art to share and project meaning”. (ACECQA, p.43)

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Shine, bright, glow, sunlight, bright, glare these are some nouns which represent light.
If we ask a child what is light, there answer will be - red light,Yellow and green or sunlight.
Light energy is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Light consists of  photons which are produced when an object's atoms heat up. Light travels in waves and is the only form of energy visible to the human eye. ("Light energy - Knowledge bank - Solar schools,")

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With this picture I can recall the Adjectives of Light- Radiant, Transparent, Gleaming, Luminous, Fluorescent, Illuminating, Opaque, Glossy.

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As light have properties of waves, travels in a straight line. When light is passing through opaque object, the object blocks the light hence the result is making shadow of that object.

I put dinosaur in the sunlight and when light travels from sun and passed through dinosaurs, created shadows of the dinosaurs.

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Twisting, Molding, Rolling, kneading, adding water to make it sticky, shaping, baking that all techniques I used to make key holders.
I think clay is one of the mediator to hold our feeling, love and messages and I can see how this material is moving around and let us moved around, as first we are bringing clay from somewhere ,then refining it,manipulating it and then displaying it.

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Light weight.

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Paper is made from softwood or hardwood trees, but 85% of the wood pulp that makes paper comes from softwood coniferous trees. They have longer fibers known to produce stronger paper. The primary trees in this category are pines, firs, spruces, hemlocks, and larch. Hardwoods used for papermaking include aspen eucalyptus, maples, birch, aspen, and oaks. (Nycz, 2019)
Earlier, paper used to use for printing, packaging and writing purpose but now with its properties, this material is capable to use in many other ways like drawing, wrapping, crafting ,dining, featuring wall and in Electronics etc.

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I wonder what will happen if I can hold the light?
I wonder what will happen if light has only one color?
Light transmitted, reflected, absorbed, refracted, polarized, diffracted, or scattered depending on the composition of the object and the wavelength of the light. ("Wave behaviors," 2022)

Light interacts differently as compared to other material and with children, they have a different corner for sense and sensory play. They using their visual senses and exploring the lights in an open-ended imagination.

Children are innately receptive to the possibilities that materials offer and interact with them in order to make meaning and relationships, explore, and communicate. (Gandini, L.,et al., 2015, p.64)

In my daily practice, I have noticed that by turning off the lights, they are aware that now it is time to relax and by turning them on, is the time to do some work. One day, When I put disco lights, immediately they came forward and were ready to do some moves, jumping to catch and touch that twirly lights. While playing outside, I have seen them comparing the shadows by size and infect looking at the sun light from inside the room, they can actually feel it whether they want jumper to go outside or it will be hot. There is a great connection of children with different material.

As it has shown on the video from a link https://youtu.be/_3iodP-fRKQ, that how children can see the different color when they watching from transparent, translucent and colorful material and how they get to know more about themselves by making shadows by their bodies and spatial awareness. With the concept of light and dark, they overcomes their scare from dark.
I can relate my understanding to outcome 3,CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF
WELLBEING- demonstrate spatial awareness and
orient themselves, ((ACECQA, p.35)

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ATELIER RAGGIO DI LUCE - The wonder of learning - 2011

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Clay transforms itself over and over as it comes into friction with things, and with us. Clay never stays the same. (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al., 2016, p. 66). Each material interacts differently, but I can feel that clay is more manipulative in all the way around, we can mold the way we want to, like in paper sometime I found it very limited ideas with paper but with clay I can do whatever I want to.

I still remember those olden days when we  used to have clay bowls for foods and clay glass to keep water cold. But with the time it has shifted a lot, there are so many different forms of clay which are used in engineering, construction, medicinal etc.

I noticed  beautiful reaction when I gave clay to children. I observed one child who have some behavioral issues. He looked at the Clay, like others he touched it, feel it, squish it and then again flattened it. He noticed a dirt on his hand and washed his hand, again came and touched the clay.  I noticed that how with the sense and touch of clay, he found himself calmer and more focused. Looking at other children also that how they are focusing and trying to make something special with it. They were showing their hand eye coordination, learning about 3 d shape  and developing their fine motor skills.Upon completion, they wrote their name next to their creation. This reminds me of the Outcome 1. Children have a strong sense of identity - Children recognize their individual achievements (ACECQA, p.22)

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Paper, o paper, you are not just a piece of paper,

You are as vast as ocean is!

You are moving along with us

You are holding all of us

All the histories, all the knowledge, by Newspaper

You have shared with us

Now, Tiny hands are holding you,

Exploring you, and throwing you up to the sky

Paper, o paper, you are not just a piece of paper

You are vast as ocean is!

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Paper is a versatile material and my thinking was only limited to its uses for printing, writing, Decorations, Graphics, Packaging, Cleaning and dining etc. But after exploring paper and after reading content from my study, I can see how simply and amazingly it is connected with our body, mind with our growth.
To check Children’s imagination, I gave paper to them.  First thing I have noticed is that children started moving. I focused that How with introducing one material to the children, effected their movements, they are moving to get paper, to get scissors, glue and colors. As it says from the article that when we take paper into the studio to pay close attention to it, we find that nothing about it is static and everything is in motion. (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al., 2016, p. 31)

Some of them rolled the paper and said, “Look, a telescope "and then some made plane by folding the paper and once it was ready, they breathe in the flaps of plane and then throw steadily in the sky. They were running along it, again picking from the ground and throwing again.

Looking at them I was questioning myself

What if I use the paper to make paper hats?

What if I use the cardboard paper to make Runway to land the plane

As an Educator, Whenever I am setting my room, I always set and stock up the paper and last thing is sweeping the paper and this setting reminds me of that how paper plays an important part in our daily lives.

The way children explored paper it reminds me of the element from outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners, that children use play to investigate, imagine and explore ideas. (ACECQA, p.34)