El ¿Qué Paso? Times y What is LOVE?
Guiding Ideas
What is a story, the W’s (who, what, where, when, why), artifacts from our land
Ingredients for today’s lab
Love, Z by Jessie Sima read by Rolando, Sebastian’s papá, a DZ designed newspaper banner cut into ready to glue strips, cookie cutters, rolling pins, pulp, scissors, stickers, glue, markers, large format paper
What just happened?
The most special “ingredient” from this LAB was our guest: Sebastian’s papá, who Rolando joined us with one of his and Sebastian’s favorite bedtime stories, Love, Z by Jessie Sima. In it the robot, Z goes on a quest to find out “What is love?” (I don’t know about you but the song comes to mind). Z’s quest became the perfect segue to asking questions and finding stories for our newspaper:
While sitting down to read the book it was clear how proud Sebastian was to have his papa at the school. With a huge smile across his face Sebastian shared his dad lap with Kai while telling the amigues how the book came from his home. Later in the day at Semillitas Sebastian proudly went to his cubby to look for Beatrice ( a character in the book). Having a dad visit your school is always the most exciting moment for a kid. Later it can be a little difficult when our grwon ups leave, but Sebastian was calmed when I invited him to again sit on my lap to share his book with the second group of amigues.
What is love?, amigues teach the grown ups:
Love is when people love people -Leo
I like to share my ice cream on a hot summer day. -Claudia
I don’t share my food. -Tino
Flowers - Rey
Snow- Lola
Kids are love -Leo
(hearing a child cry in the other room) Being sad when we miss our grown ups is love. Sometimes I am also sad when I miss my daughter who I love very much. -Eva
So many snowboards in the world (I wish I remember who said this)
I am making concrete -Rey
Some story ideas/questions gathered at circle time were: Who has a stuffy?, What is spooky?,
What is love?, What we like? What kids like to play
Livneh: “We need a bigger newspaper more and more- mas y mas for the whole town- it’s going to be interesting.”
Jude, “k-pop”
Zoya, “Magnatiles - a house”
Toli, “Una tienda”
Jude, “To the bakery”
Niko, “Frutas.”
Rey, “I want to write an article about not to touch sharp things. I want to write about healthy food. No sugar bugs because they eat your teeth and you get cavities.”
Leo, “Don’t touch anything and don’t swallow toothpaste and it’s not very good to do that -
you should spit it out.”
The other ingredient was a return to pulp. Nicole laid out the pulp with rollers and cookie cutters. Inspired by this image from the Love, Z, the amigues shaped the pulp to make artifacts from their lands. This illustration also reminded some friends of our favorite neighboring bakery Welcome Home.
In Nicole’s palabras: En el Lab de esta semana los amigos y yo nos sumergimos en una exploración material, creando pequeños artefactos para la tierra, a partir de pulpa de azul intenso. La invitación era simple, pero abierta: meter las manos en la masa, sentir, transformar, imaginar.
Los amigos se entregaron con entusiasmo a la experiencia sensorial. Iris, por ejemplo, encontró en la pulpa un espacio para “cocinar”. Galletas y cupcakes fueron sus creaciones principales, repitiendo gestos con concentración y delicadeza.
Levi, en cambio, exploró desde lo estructural: aplanó la masa hasta dejarla muy fina, una superficie lista para intervenir. Luego la pavimentó con pequeños cubitos de colores, organizándolos como si fuera un suelo de baldosas.
Oli se dejó llevar por el placer de cortar la masa. Con atención y curiosidad, fue extrayendo distintas formas, generando una serie de “casas para mamá”, que emergían de su gesto repetido y muy concentrado .
Matías construyó un jardín. Plantó cuidadosamente una hilera de cubitos amarillos, con fuerte sentido de simetría y organización.
Jack, con visible orgullo, compartió su creación con todos: “esto es un esquimal y esta es su cueva”, mostrando a todos una escultura redonda. Su narrativa daba vida y contexto a su construcción.
Claudia se sintió especialmente atraída por los moldes. “Mira Nicole, son dos corazones, ¿hay más corazones? Quiero más corazones”, me dijo con entusiasmo. “Eso es porque tienes mucho amor”, le respondí. Se rió con ilusión y asintió con la cabeza. Aunque no encontramos más moldes de corazón, continuó con el de un oso (uno muy amoroso), trasladando ese afecto a una nueva forma.
Así, la tierra en su forma intervenida, fue habitada de una serie de artefactos llenos de expresión, juego y pensamiento.
