Day 7

Today we put the finishing touches to our map -- the children made flowers for the magical forest.. 

Here's a flavour of the images and also how the map is starting to look now.. just a few more tweaks to get it all done for the Showcase in An Draiocht, Blanchardstown on 17th January. Exciting!

Day 6

Making progress - the map is beginning to look near completion.. Today the children worked on images of a magical forest that they wanted to include in the map - fairies, fairy houses, pathway and magic worms were some of the ideas the kids came up with themselves.

Day 5

The children created a house - their own house - for the map. This again will be a part of them included in the map, like all the other wonderful ideas gathered so far.. The map is taking shape when we put all the pieces together...

Day 4

Today the children made a person for the map - they each made someone who represents themselves, different little people...The pieces for our map are growing.

Day 3

Today the children talked through ideas formulated last week from the ideas for maps.. Some of the ideas they came up to put into a map..
A place where people talk - in the middle of the map .. - the classroom
Lava
World puzzle
A magic Forest
Treasure
A snake with a blanket on top
Shining light
flower
stairs
a path

So today we started making some of these things with fabric and see what happens.. Some photos of what the children did with the fabric ...

Day 2

After looking through the printed images taken last week, today I discussed the conversations we had on the walk last week with the children. Some topics below that stood out to us all.....

Oak tree - one of the children's Dad cuts trees so she knew all about trees (Miriam)

Football pitch

School painting

Pretty colours and bushes

Fairy door - decorations - flowers and colours (Rebecca)

Horse Tree

House - (Nicolas)

Bushes - looks like a hedgehog. - yellow and colourful (Eadhbha)

Leaves - different kinds and colours  - dead ones and other - Flower dowers (Kaden)

Sticks - they are all different (Beatrice)

Feather (Martha) 

Berries

Tower - electricity

Plants - dark, colourful, yellow, like flowers - mixed colours

Tree that looks like a elephant

A Nest that looks like a hedgehog

Flowers 

Some mentioned a shark

Tower - electricity

North - South - East - West - cardinal dial/compass

I showed them the mapping projects from artists Joyce Kozloff and Landon MacKenzie.. Then working in small groups the children created collages to disseminate ideas for a mapping project.

Day 1

For the first session of this residency with senior infants we took a walk around the school grounds. 

The children guided me with stories of what they enjoyed and we took images of what the children wanted to photograph in the grounds. Great day and lots of fun stories! Below are just a sample of the photos we took. I also took some audio of the stories to remember all the children.