October 18th

I feel like my first couple days of leading art went really well. Especially yesterday. All the children seemed to be engaged with the playdoh and some of the children really surprised me. For instance, Joey stayed at his seat the entire time we had art and never once tried to get up. I was happy that the activity was able to hold his attention the entire time. I have seen this before, but the pasta roller might be the biggest hit of the entire activity. The children loved using it, and I sometimes had to get them to take turns because multiple children wanted to use it at the same time.

I felt like today was good too. It was a little harder to manage groups of 4 and 5 opposed to groups of 2 and 3, but the typical children seemed to like the activity. Observing what they were doing for the most part, I think that the first group was much more interested in the glue than anything else. Some of the children would pile on the glue, and not stick anything to it. Looking back, I think that glue sticks weren't the best idea because they kept coming apart or just didn't really work. I was also really pleased with how many of the children used the scissors. I had not really observed the children using scissors too much before, and I wasn't sure how that process would go. The first group used them a lot, and the second group used them before I could even tell the children to cut the hay. The only downside was that the second group seemed to be more interested in cutting the hay than anything else. However, it was a good process for them to practice with scissors and glue, and thus far I have been pleased with the way that everything is going.