After we read a story, we talked about the story in a group. And we asked children to write about the story.
It’s not a reflection. It seems children generally think it’s difficult to write a reflection. Instead, they can simply write about what they listened, what characters appeared in the story, what those characters did, which characters or scenes they like and so on. Those who are good at writing, they were actually wrote a lot. On the other hand even those who are not really good at writing could just wrote down what had talked in their group.
In order to make the program more enjoyable and to let children practice to raise their power of expression, we encouraged children to draw something about the story with color pens after they finish writing. It was not an obligation. We merely wanted them to experience something new only if they are interested in, because many of them usually have little chance to use color pens.
And because they don’t often draw with colors, many replied us, “I can’t draw,” or “No, I don’t need a color pen.” But surely there were some children who got interested in drawing while feeling shy to do since they had never done before. We did our best to make an appropriate atmosphere so that such children could freely express and enjoy, not being nervous or under pressure.
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