"Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light,

itself becomes light." Saint Paul

"Just as you can't fight the darkness, you cannot fight the pain body." Author Unknown

      CREATIVITY AND ITS ROLE IN COLLABORATIVE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE


The works of Garnner, uncovered the basis of a child’s learning that centred around the form of multiple intelligence. This was a process where it was believed that a child has the ability to learn through 1 of 8 modalities. Each with a creative element. This giving the knowledge base for a greater understanding of how your child learns, and what can be planned in a Centre Environment. To work alongside this Model, we have based our program on the teachings of VYgotsy. To which intentional teaching opportunities are put in place to further add and extend your child’s development.

With this philosophy we have a planned a program that we feel will give both you and your child an opportunity to learn more about this Model of Teachings. We hope to provide you with a framework that centres around your child’s creative experiences, to enable each child to develop at his or her own pace, within a context of a rich and stimulating environment.

Here at the Centre, we believe that the importance of creativity is fundamental to enriching a child’s life through artistic mediums. We endeavour to provide a range of experiences throughout the program, that work in with the families and child’s interests. Together we will create an environment that can be freely explored, and involve the children being active participants in their own learning.

Creativity is both important at extending a child's development, as it is putting the building blocks down for future learning. When children are given a rich and creative environment, this enables them to develop a strong sense of well being. Children can develop trust and confidence, allowing for them to master new challenges and celebrate their own efforts and achievements. They are able to assert their capabilities, and grow towards a strong sense of independence.

Establishing a creative environment that enables the child to become a confident and involved learner. Having a disposition to learning through curiosity, confidence, enthusiasm and imagination. Through creative mediums, the child uses creativity to investigate, imagine and explore new ideas and concepts. Developing a wide range of skills, such as problem solving, experimentation, researching of new ideas and investigation.

Throughout the course of the month, we have shared many wonderful moments of creativity at our Centre. In the Caterpillar Room, there has been some lovely art work that reflects the changing season. Children worked together to bring to life the nature of the changing leaves. Many displays of art work were produced, from leaf prints to colourful pastel prints. Educators worked alongside the children, to scaffold and extend on the experience. By asking the children what they had created. These words were then put into informative text, to accompany their displays of art work.

This above experience Alliterates the practice of incorporating creativity into the developmental Model. Both Child and Educator work alongside each other, to actively collaborate together, engaging in the learning process.

We began at the Centre by planning experiences daily to reflect this creative Model. Throughout the year, we have all been amazed at the fantastic input from both staff, families and local communities. We were delighted to have had the opportunity to have a trip to the local Art Gallery. To which the children and educators gained insight into both art and music. The topic of cultural diversity was explored with the art works of aboriginal people, tribal music and dance. Through this experience, the children created both works of art to reflect aboriginal paintings and engaged in dramatic dance expression. Many parents came to watch this production, to which I hope both you delighted and shared in your child’s achievements.

The "recycle for life" program has also started this month. This has given the children a chance to decorate our new recycle bins and discuss the project. With many beautiful displays of art work we have seen gracing our recycle bins. It has also been a great opportunity for the children to partake in the program, as well as exploring more ideas through creativity. We have had many a proposal for worm farms and chickens to take up residence in our garden. Each which will be expected to arrive in the next coming months, to add to our sustainable living philosophy, we practice at our Centre.
We look forward to ideas from families on incorporating creative Mediums into the Centre.