Studio workplace is design to work as same as a classroom but it is more in depth where it is connects with each child with according to their skills, interest and ability.

Ideas through materials for mini studio look alike classroom:

There are some centres which are highly inspired by Reggio inspired Atelier style and studio work space style. It is a same way in which children are encountering with materials such as paint, paper, colours, clay, natural materials, wires, light, cables, tool, recycling materials etc. It also includes child's individual and group of children's skills and ability with their imaginations, creativity and voices for storytelling and poetry.

I encountered with paper in my week 1 class and discovered that there were ways which paper can be use to do artwork, even without drawing or paint on it.

In a book, Encounter with materials, it mentioned and I quote "So often, paper is regarded as a surface that we use to hold messages, lists, marks, meanings, drawings, paintings, stories, news". (pg 24)

Reflection on paper:

While, encountering with paper as a source of artwork, I explored that paper a versatile material that can be used in different ways. For example I used recycled paper to fold, bend, tear and crumple as my artwork etc. Paper has some various commercial and educational purposes, When we talk about children, they can develop fine motor skills, imaginations, creativity. These skills are essential for learning and cognitive development.

When I used paint in my class session, I used different colours to create some patterns to narrate my story. I used waves and curves for the sea, lines for the rain drops and dots for the sand. I painted a beach by using my imagination.

According to the author, Pacini-Ketchabaw in her book Encounter with materials, "The paint assemblage becomes a world of powerful affects and intensities. Here, becoming competent or familiar with paint involves blurring the gap between the manipulations required to use paint in a developmentally focused early childhood classroom and those required in the classroom conditions where this project took place"(pg 51).

Reflection on paint:

When I used paint in my artwork, I felt that I want to become more creative and artistic with my imaginations. I used paper, paint and brush to create a beach and later on I started to mix and rub colours together to see the change in patterns, design and colour combination and most importantly I wanted to see what and how it will look like afterwards. The attached photos shows that both artworks are done on a same paper with same paint colours but different in design once colours mixed up together. Paint can be use on different materials apart from paper only. For example, fabric, wood, plastic, utensils, blocks, glass, mirror, leaves, barks, hand, body and many more. It is a good source to enhance skills and be more creative and artistic.

I used paint my another assessment where I used paper, pencil and paint to create and design UZBEK clothing and relate with my traditional outfits.

There are so many benefits when we use paint for children. It gives children confidence, self esteem and imaginations through paint strokes, colour mixing, blending, pouring, sensory touch and visual expressions.

In a book, Encounter with materials in Early childhood education, I read and explore how the clay was used in different places and how it reacts differently by the children and educators such as clay used in Atrium Studio, clay used in the forest, clay used at the river.

According to the Stengers et al. 2009, pg 4) "Clay acts/demand/lives differently in the atrium, river and forest, thus each clay ecology obliges us to think through the 'middle' through the milieu".

Figure 5.1 on pg 55 explains that "how clay acts and interacts in ecologies".

Reflection on Clay:

I would like to reflect on working with the clay because this was the first time I had touched and used clay with my hands. I felt so happy and excited about it whilst moulding, rolling, pressing, punching, squeezing, folding and pinching the clay. I made different faces emotions, flowers and tree by using clay. Water did an amazing trick by keeping clay nice and smooth. It also reminds me of my childhood where we used clay pots to cook and water jar/pot to pour water in it and drank from it, used clay pots at my home back in my country.

Children surely like clay as much as they love to play with the play dough. It gives children an opportunity to connect and experience in sensory play, hand and eye coordination, muscle strengthen by pressing, pinching and squeezing it, exploring texture and shapes, use of imaginations and creativity, and most importantly clay is reusable.

I also used similar idea to create the artwork as my assessment 2: Stop motion. I encountered with three materials a paper, paint and pencil.

As an educator, I would love to show these amazing pictures and share with them about my visit to the Victoria National art gallery. I can share my story with the children that why I am so connected with this Uzbek fabric printing and how it reminds me of my culture and tradition. Children will like to create and engage in the experience of doing paint on a paper to make something like this. We can also use any plain or recycled fabric material to do printing or painting.

During a class, I explore about light's frequency, distance and what light is capable and incapable of through discussion and readings.

• What is light capable of?

Light can expand, it can bend and move in all directions.

• What light is incapable of?

It has a certain distance and limitation to go how far it will go and move.

• How does light respond to other materials in its environment?

It can form into different colour of objects it contact with.

It will give the shadow and reflection of that colour.

It also go in different with water, how deep and how shallow water is.

Reflection on light:

light is another important material when we talk about experiments This attached video was done in the class in week 3 while exploring and learning about the light. I did this experiment with light and shadow. I made a blurry and close shadow with my hand by bringing my hand near to the wall and taking it far from a wall. Light had effected the hand shadow in both close and far distance.

Light can explore more widely in the childcare settings. It can be done by both natural and artificial light through play, learning, discussions and science experiments. Children love to do experiments and observations with light. I personally engaged children of age group 3 to 5 in different science experiments based on light for example: sunlight and table light with rainbow blocks, shadows exploration, torch light reflection and use of candle lights.

light is a great way to give children with some curiosity and investigation, develops cognitive development and inquiries and children's agencies.

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