We ask the children to use the tablet to document their work, ideas and the process of their working during morning and afternoon experiences. As we sit and review the pictures at the end of the day, we find the perspective of the photographer intriguing. Framing is a big piece of capturing a moment with a camera. What is intriquing to the photographer?
"The photographers problem is a simple one: what shall he include, what shall he reject? The line of decision between in and out is the picture's edge." The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski
I Wanna Take Me a Picture by Wendy Ewald shares her experiences as a photographer working with children all over the world.
"When two people tell stories about the same event, what they remember and choose to tell is different."
"Framing is perhaps the most difficult and important lesson in teaching photography. As Westerners, we are used to seeing our world framed by devices such as televisions and computer screens, and, of course, picture frames. Yet we rarely think about how our way of experiencing the world has been constricted by these ubiquitous rectangles."
Please note that all pictures were taken by the children. However, each child choose a photograph (that they may or may not have taken) to explain their own work with the material.
Zack: You are suppose to do the red first. It makes it harder.
Cal: Yeah you have to figure out where the yellow goes. It easier to start with the yellow but we like making it harder. It is a math puzzle because there are shapes. Random and cool shapes like a diamond, square and a para something (parallelogram)
Samuel: I like riding the bike when I first get to school because sometimes I am really tired and when I am really tired I wake up. It makes me feel like I am riding my real bike and that is one of my favorite things to do.
Eve: I built the fairy house and Annabel came over and helped build it and then we both decided to come over and build a little town close to it. We used blue pebble for the lake and things that looked like glass for the water. We used colors that are pretty colors. There is a garden with grass and a path with blocks. We used pine cones that looked like roses. I try to make it look like real life. I think about all different houses and then I make them. I was trying to make it look like my best friends house because it has an upstairs and a downstairs.
Lorelai: We were making a house. I made a gate at the front door. and then you go up the ramp into the front room with some furniture. There is a basement too. It was kinda hard to use the materials because sometimes it would not work and then other times it would. Sometimes they would not stick on to each other.
Charlie; I made a tunnel house. We wanted to make them longer and one for Scarlett. We wanted the tunnel house to have a curve. Scarlett was a puppy and I was a baby kitten. It took like an hour to make it and I did not want to take it down. We built a slide out of it. We slid out of our house.
Scarlett: We played in it. We did not have owners but we were friends. It was hard to take it down. It was sad. We would leave our house and play in the field.
Julia: Well first I just got a pattern. I started at the bottom and then went to the top but on the second I started on the top of the pattern and went down. It was hard to decide which card to do because there were so many. It was also hard to find the right color because they were on top of each other. Patterns are when you keep doing the same colors in the same order all over again..
Penelope: What I did here was I tried to sound out each letter of the picture of the pen and pig. I was trying to match each letter that I did with a "p". When we were in circle Mary said that we need two blues and one red. We were making a letter pattern. It was really hard to figure out the last letter.
Bryce: I did these materials too. I sounded out the word pen and that is how I did this. I knew that pen started with the letter "p". I figured out the second letter the same way I did the first. You have to find the letter after you sound the letter out. They are lower case letters.
Annabel: I was trying to make a house but it kept falling so I asked for some clips and then my house was stable. I like to make these houses because they are fun to go inside. I make a bed inside my house and I lie down on my bed. I make the houses wide and not skinny. Sometimes if it is too skinny you can't go inside of it. It is touch to make the fabric stay there and clip it on.
Zoey: I took this picture after I made it. This is a meteor heading to Earth. It is after the dinosaurs died. It would break everything down except for the baby dinosaur. They gave birth which then they gave birth and it kept going on. We are suppose to take a picture of our work but I did not get it that well because I didn't get the whole meteor passage like it went so fast that it is still there in the sky.
Shayna: This is a funny person because it has triangle legs and a diamond in the middle. And a really funny shaped head. It has a blue diamond in the middle of its stomach and two diamonds on the bottom. I made some people with Charlie and Lorelai. It is a challenge to put them into a shape because they are in shapes already and then you have to put them in a different shape. We just started and it looked like a person so we made it more.
Sydney and Kate: We make one hundred houses. Fairies live in these houses.
Sometimes they will go outside to steal money but sometimes they go to little or big beds. If the lights are on the little fairies glow up to the sky. Syd makes the perfect house for them. Sometimes when we make the doors so they can go outside and squeeze through the door. They play in the gardens and they play in the grass and pick the flowers. They use goo to play and necklaces that attach. They always have birthday parties. They play and play and they never go to bed. On their birthday they sleep through their birthday celebration.
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