Greetings all! .
We still have spaces available in our last 2 workshops.
- Creating a World of Colors: Palettes That Connect Us To Our World *THIS SATURDAY*
Sat May 10th 2025, 9:00 am PDT Cost $135.00 (includes materials for you to take away)
At Branches– Culver City, CA
Presented by Patricia Hunter McGrath
- What are the tricks and tips to creating a wide range of beautiful palettes?
- What are the techniques of paint mixing with children?
- How can color support children’s learning?
- How can a wide range of paint colors support children’s connection to nature?
- What is the difference between a tone, hue, shade, and tint?
- How can paint and color support literacy and poetic language?
This Workshop includes: the price of paint cups and paints that participants can use to create a palette that can be taken back to their centers. Participants will also create a paint recipe book that can be used as a tool to create other beautiful palettes that can be used throughout the school year.
- Harnessing the Light: Using Light to Uncover Children’s Ideas and Extend Their Theories
Sat May 24th 2025, 9:00 am PDT Cost $100
At Branches– Culver City, CA
Presented by Patricia Hunter McGrath
Spend the day investigating light, shadow and transparency with an experienced atelierista as we explore how light tables, overhead projectors and immersive digital environments have been used to support, uncover and develop children’s’ interests and ideas. Through hands on experiences, provocative questions and co-constructive interactions we will unpack how to move with fluidity between children’s theories, representations and investigations
- What is the role of the adult in facilitating the choice of materials to be used with the light table?
- How do we follow children’s ideas through a wide range of light-driven experiences?
- What questions do we ask ourselves to support the children’s processes?
- How are materials an essential ingredient for collaboration and shared meaning making?
- How can the light table become a catalyst for children’s learning?
- How is light used to create focused classroom environments?
- Why is the light an indispensable tool for the classroom?
All workshops https://collections.humanitix.com/branches-atelier-spring-workshops
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