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MAKING  A BOOK

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The last material inquiry is about Art, literacy, story creation or book making.  I decided to make a book about Clay. In class we did a little activity. we had to pick 3 things. we got a stapler, a picture of a group outside and a word inside. We then had to make a story about it. Our story was about a class. They were deciding what activity they wanted to do inside and outside, one of the girls thought to do Scavenger hunt! It was a great idea. The leader of the group made a list to find and one of the things to find was the stapler.
I believe the book I made will be a good starter for children who don't know what clay is.

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What was the first book about?, Who made the first book? How else can you make a book?

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y # #5: A R T,  L I T E R A C Y,  S T O R Y  C R E A T I O N/ B O O K  M A K I N G 

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y # #5: A R T,  L I T E R A C Y,  S T O R Y  C R E A T I O N/ B O O K  M A K I N G 

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Pinch it, poke it, press it, shape it, throw it, scrape it, form it, lift it. Clay is incredibly versatile. It can be sliced, engraved, embellished, glazed, washed, carried, burnished, heaved, fired, dropped, shaped, sculpted, soaked, sprayed, hollowed, altered, polished, painted, pounded, flattened, carved, transformed. Clay moves, wobbles, weeps, sticks, shrinks, dries, extends, gestures, melts, trickles, sits, tears, breaks, collapses, rises, attaches, shudders, rests, accumulates.
(Kind, 2017)

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I can see a ball of clay with different shades of brown

I can feel soft, wet texture

I can hear gooey sound when added too much water

My body is moving by playing with the clay using my fingers and using my hands too add water on the clay

Where does the material come from? the grounds

If I fold it what happens? it folds but starts cracking

If I cut it what happens? it becomes into pieces and there is a different pattern once I cut it.

If I pour water on it what happens? it depends too muh becomes gooey and a little becomes soft and easier to work with

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How was clay made? who invented clay? Why did my hands go white while playing with the clay? what is the difference between clay and play dough?

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Our fourth inquiry was about Clay. This material inquiry was done at my place. As I was playing with the clay I can see my finger-print as I hold it with both my hands,  as I push down on the clay it spreads out, when I roll it it becomes fragile and breaks off. As I was playing with it, I realised the clay had a few different shades of brown. I decided to see how clay reacted to things so I grabbed the clay and decided to use it as a pencil and draw with it on the paper. Once I used it as a pencil I let it dry for a bit to see what it would do, while waiting for that I decided to make a lady with the clay then I decided to add water on it. I realised if you add a little of water to the clay it becomes smooth and easier to work with and if you add way to much water if becomes really gooey but soft. According to Encounter with Materials in Early Childhood Education (2017), clay needs to have some kind of liquid mixed with it, if not it dries up and cracks, which then it is hard to work with.
Once I finished the activity with water I looked back at the picture and it became really soft, but it went as a light brown colour. When I stopped playing with the clay for a bit my hands turned white where the clay was.

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #4 C L A Y 

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #4 C L A Y 

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As the children were exploring the light box I was wondering what why some things have shadows around them and others like fire, you cant see them in the shadows. How are shadows made? How can they make what we see? How was the reaction whoever made it? Why are some shadows different then the others? How are transparent things made?

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I can see different types of colours, shadows

I can feel soft texture and light materials

I can hear the cellophane scrunching up in a ball, children chatting about the shadow box and experience.

I can smell the cellophane

My body is moving by touching the different materials and putting them on the shadow box.

Where does the material come from? The material comes from trees.

If I fold it what happens? when I the cellophane there is a crease in it.

If I cut it what happens? when I cut the cellophane it becomes two pieces kind of becomes sticky.

If I pour water on it what happens? when I poured water on the cellophane the puddle stays still.

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Our third inquiry was about light, shadows and transparent. This material inquiry was done at my placement.  As the centre had a shadow box I got loose items around the centre and made faces with the children. We checked out the different shades on the face. We put a blue cellophane and it came out as light blue where as if the item was dark on the shadow box it was black. The children were amazed how shadow and transparent things worked. The children didn't know what transparent meant so I explained to them it was basically something you can see through.

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #3 L I G H T, S H A D O W  &  T R A N S P A R E N T 

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #3 L I G H T, S H A D O W  &  T R A N S P A R E N T 

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As my daughter was crawling through the junk and stuff, I was wondering and thinking what she could be thinking at this moment. Why did she choose the bottle lid and corks to play with?, how did it feel in her hands while she was banging it onto the bowl? what does she think the cork was for? As I was sitting down near the junk, my curiosity was running wild! why were the materials on the floor called junk? what makes them "junk" ?  How were the feathers made? were they from real chickens/birds?

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I can see different types of materials, cards, strings, corks, bottle lids, pegs, cotton wool, sticks and many things

I can feel hard texture, soft texture and metal

I can hear sticks clapping together, paper scrunching and wood tapping on a bowl.

I can smell the wood from the corks.

My body is moving by touching the different materials, swishing the ribbon in the air, tapping the corks with the bottle lids on and bending down to reach more materials.

Where does the material come from? The material comes from different things, mostly trees.

If I fold it what happens? when I folded the small match sticks it breaks.

If I cut it what happens? when I cut the paper it becomes two pieces

If I pour water on it what happens? when I poured water on the paper towel it became wet, heavy, the colour changed and changed shape

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Our second enquiry was about junk pieces. It had ribbons, paper that is teared in different styles, corks from wine bottles, strings, woven baskets, and wood sticks. I had my daughter today for class  and she was interested in the different types of materials that were on the floor. She grabbed the silver bowl and started tapping it with her hands. She liked the sound of it! Then she went and grabbed a piece of wood and started to tap it on the bowl. I looked at the corks and the bottle lids. Their was a different sound when put the bottle lid on the cork, It sounded like a horse galloping. I grabbed the ribbon and was pretending to be a ballerina.

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y # 2  J U N K  A N D  S T U F F 

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y # 2  J U N K  A N D  S T U F F 

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Pacini-Ketchabaw, V, Kind, S & Kocher, L.M, L 2016, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education, Routledge, Third Avenue, New York.

https://wipapercouncil.org/, Wisconsin Paper Council, date viewed 26th October 2018

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Paper flaps, floats, glides, hovers, soars, tears, rips, sways, flies, rolls, gathers, crumples, crimps,  accepts,  folds,  bends,  covers,  swishes,  flutters,  pauses,  bunches,  scatters,  yields. We breathe it in, we blow it out. We launch it, chew it, paste it, wear it, elevate  it, wrap  with  it,  read  it,  draw  on  it,  flip  it,  collect  it,  paint  it,  propel  it,  drape  it,  colour  it.  We  open,  envelop,  fill,  empty,  catch,  tie,  write,  arrange,  twist,  turn, rearrange, uncover, recover, unroll, wave, fasten, crinkle, tickle, clothe, amplify, circulate,  sweep,  undress,  redress.  (Kind 2017)

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While listening to the paper going through different situations I was trying to figure out how paper was invented. Everyone knows paper comes from trees, but I wanted to know how a tiny seed which grew into a tree become paper. So I researched it. Basically, to make paper from trees the logs are passed through a debarker, then they are cut into pieces, after that the wood is pressured-cooked with a mixture of water and chemicals, they then are washed and cleaned. Colour dyes and coatings are mixed in, the rest of the crude paper sheet is squeezed between two large rollers to remove most of the remaining water and ensure smoothness and uniform thickness.  The semi-dry web is then run through heated dryer rollers to remove the remaining water. The final step is then rolled into large rolls, which can be 30 feet wide and weigh close to 25 tons.  A slitter cuts the paper into smaller, more manageable rolls, and the paper is ready for use (Wisconsin Paper Council)

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We had our first material inquiry. This week’s topic is Paper. As this was my first material inquiry, I felt uncomfortable as I wasn't sure what our aim was suppose to be. At first, it was pretty hard to get out of my comfort zone and really go beyond into playing with the paper. Once I started to feel comfortable and understand I was exploring with the paper in different ways. I was tearing the paper, throwing it, scrunching it, folding it, blowing on it, walking on it and listening to the sounds of the paper when it went through different situations. my curiosity was running wild as i was trying to figure out why did it sound different and why did it feel different.   I now understand paper can go through different situations and every time it goes through a different situation it sounds different every time.

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #1 P A P E R 

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M A T E R I A L  I N Q U I R Y #1 P A P E R 