Learning new skills for the children is an essential part of the project but this year, I had new skills to learn too. In my box of supplies from Ann was a very interesting little black box and inside this was the ‘special paper’ we were to use for our photograms.  Late one Tuesday afternoon my classroom assistant and myself had the opportunity to use this paper and turn the store into a dark room – this was very important – in order for the children to be able to produce a photogram we had to test first and know the conditions to which the paper would react in the manner we wanted in order to produce the desiredoutcomes.  (Samples of the children’s photograms can be found on their journal)

Throughout the project Ann and myself spend a lot of time communicating by emails, phone calls and virtually.  This also applies to working with the children – communication is a big part of our daily activity and for this task it was extremely important too as the processes involved were detailed and needed  to be understood by the children.

Being able to programe share with Eluminate was excellent as Ann was able to show the children the recorded clips of the photogram process.  This really helped the children to understand and I feel contributed to the really successful outcomes.

Recording what we do in the classroom is important too and for this session the children had a class activity to take part in.  This involved some group internet work and then recording onto translucent paper their thoughts and feelings.

I thoroughly enjoyed this week of the project, the experimentation process, the excitement in the ‘make shift’ dark room, the oohs and aahs and the WOW of the end result!!