We began my sitting all together in a circle and discussing what things we enjoyed doing - as a way to indirectly speak about our skills to then create a corresponding skill-box. We asked: what's your favourite food? Can you prepare it? What sports do you play? etc... When one child said that he likes to watch TV then I thought - well, OK this isn't exactly a skill, but it's great that he's opened up and thought about what he does well in his spare time. I thought - we can work with this. So I suggested he made a TV with the box and inside the box constructed a scene of his favorite show. Another child then did the same but for a computer set, and next to it wrote out instructions about how to use a computer. Another made little figures who watched the TV.... it all unfolded very organically. There were many boxes painted with sea scapes and inside were origami boats with instructions on how to make them. There was a nail painting box covered in hands, all brightly painted in different colours. Some boxes were compartmentalised to hold many skills - plasticine gymnasts and cardboard bicycles. Some skills were experimented with to create new ones and new unusual creations - beading with clay, and wires to create bracelets with.
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