We continue to explore concepts and the possibilities surrounding Growth Mindset. Today, we investigated through the lens of engineering, designing and creating. We used a “Glockenspiel” which is a miniature xylophone. We explored how it is designed, its purpose, and what each component of this musical instrument we thought meant. We then moved to reading the book “the Most Magnificent Thing”.
This is a text that speaks to the importance of “yet”, “not giving up”, “trial and error” and the how re-design can create new meaning and new objects.
In the story, our girl engineer wants to invent a new object for her dog. She is involved in many ups and downs and mistakes until she arrives at an object that she is satisfied with. We kept speaking to how this relates to us as kindergarten students that some of our learning how to read numbers and the alphabet, colouring, bouncing a ball and playing Minecraft etc. This lead into us watching a video clip from “Meet the Robinsons” where a child was unsuccessful in creating a robot. This video celebrates the notion of not giving up and the opportunity that failure can present for learning. Next, we plan to layer responses, images, texts on a collage on top of a child’s favourite page of the book.