Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Geranium,dolls and hearts


I love my geranium much more since I stitched the leaves, but being concentrated by it for so
long make me dream about it at night and wonder about cloth geranium matters all over the day.


Yesterday I had another funny conversation about the dolls hearts.
I read my 6-7 years old students what violletta wrote at my myspace blog - " I think a doll gets symbolically a heart as soon as someone begins to love her".
The girl who said last time that a doll get heart only when it is being done, very seriously said, that it could be, but she yet believes that only when a doll been done one can know whether he loves it .
There was other sophisticated answer by one of the boys who said that when a doll is done, it can drive to a store and buy a heart, it was really important for him to emphasize that it would drive, not walk.

Back home, there is geranium flowers to be done, do you think it is the same with plants?
Should I wait till it would be done and then ask one of my dolls drive to their famous hearts store and get one for my geranium?
I love my geranium but I will know for sure only when it would be done.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

When a doll get a heart?


Yesterday I taught my six-eight years old students how to stitch hands into the already stuffed body of the socks dolls they are creating.
When I began my explanation they immediately said that it is going to hurt the doll, I promised to do it as gentle as I can in order to not cause any pain, and asked them to do the same when stitching hands into their own dolls.
They weren't satisfied by it, so I said it is like a surgery, and she was put to sleep before, most of them agreed it would be better, but there were few who yet kept on claiming I am hurting the doll. I just wanted to finish my explanation and let them stitch by their own, so I loudly said: "I promised all of you she is not being hurt by me, if she did was it would inform us". One of the boys immediately answered that the doll have no mouth to scream, and no eyes to cry, one of the girls told him that the doll don't have any heart too so it can't feel when it hurt.
This opened a whole new conversation weather the stuffing is like blood or like heart, there was a controversy in the class about this issue, till other girl solved it by announcing that dolls get an heart only when they are been done.