John Dewey Observation

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The teacher tells the children that they are going to make Gak, she chooses four children to come to the art area, and they will help make it. The teacher has out two large buckets, a couple of cups of water, glue and Liquid starch. She hands one cup of the water to Aliyanna, and tells her to pour the water in the bucket, the child does that. The teacher then pours the cups up with glue and hands it to the child again, and asks her to pour it. The child pours it into the bucket and then sets the cups down. The teacher pours some liquid starch in the bucket and begins to stir it, she then hands the spoon to another child and tells him to stir it. While the other child is stirring the Gak, the teacher then grabs the second bucket. She pours water into a cup, and hands it to Jolisa, who pours it into the bucket. Jolisa hands the cups back to the teacher, who then pours clue into the cup. The teacher hands Jolisa the cup and says “pour it in the bucket” Jolisa holds the cups sideways and nothing is coming out, she looks up at the teacher, who tells her once more to pour it, she then drops the cup into the water. The teacher picks the cup up and dumps the glue out. The teacher gets a spoon and stirs it, and then hands Jolisa the spoon, and tells her to stir the mixture. While the children are stirring the teacher pours some liquid watercolors into the buckets. Other children come over to the table to observe. The children begin naming the two colors. One child responds, “That one is blue, and this one is pink”. The teacher tells the child with the first bucket “Were done stirring”. The child sits the spoon down, and the teacher takes the Gak out and begins to knead with her hands, she then tells several children to get a tray and sit down. She hands each child, (there are five) a small amount of Gak. The teacher tells the children to rolls it around, which the

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