Art facilitation.

Montessori Pre-School.

Montessori pre-school.

Has been set up for over 30 years.

Pre-school for 2 and half year old to 4 year old children.

Montessori Pre-School.

There are five Montessori teachers in total.

This school year there are 31 children enrolled.

Two groups. One in the morning session, one in the afternoon session.

Montessori Pre-School.

Afternoon class has 8 pupils in total.

This class is for children who have either a noticeable learning difficulty or trouble with a language barrier.

This was the group I would be facilitating.

Before the activity.

Accessed the needs of the children before under taking the facilitation.

Decided on an appropriate activity for the children.

Use internet resources for ideas such as Pinterest.

The activity.

Make a personal tree with the group of 8.

Trace out an outline of a large tree.

Use stencils of handprints and leaves to fill in the tree.

The facilitation.

Firstly I Introduced who I was to the group.

Played a 10 minute warm up game called “the ball name game”. From this game I got to know all of the children's names.

I got the art martials and table ready.

The facilitation.

Got each child to sit around the table.

Each child picked a different art martials to fill out the stencils.

Glued on the handprints and leaves on the cut out of the tree.

Display on the wall to look at in future.

Images of the facilitation.

Image of the finished activity.

Materials used.

Stencils of the handprints and leaves.

Materials used continued

Soft ball for warm up game.

One A3 brown paper for the trunk.

One A3 white paper for the tree.

Colouring pencils and crayons.

Glue.

Learning points from the facilitation

Each child was different and wanted to use different pencils and crayons as some children didn’t like the feel of crayons.

Limitations to the facilitation

A lot of the children needed one to one help with the facilitation as it was a ratio of 8:1 I couldn’t help all children at the same time so some of the teachers had to help me.

Evaluation from clients and or/staff

All of the teachers and staff really appreciated the facilitation I carried out with the children.

They praised the thought I had put into the activity and how I took all the children's needs into account and made the activity suitable for each child.

Finally..

Thank you for listening today now I will answer any question anyone may have?