Perspectives: Mirrors
Learning Group
Week of November 4, 2013
The children were very interested as I
was setting up the mirror. When they started coming over to the mirror, only
some of them seemed to notice it was above them. They were sort of hesitant
when they began looking up into the mirror. Oscar said he couldn’t see his feet
upon first looking up into the mirror (perhaps because he saw his face mostly
in the mirror with his body under him), but then moved and said he could. Rami
decided it would be a good idea to lie down on the ground and look into the
mirror that way. Once he did, many of the children joined him. They moved their
bodies and observed what happened as their reflections moved, too. They soon
brought other objects (trucks, blocks, etc.) over to the mirror and pointed out
how they could see those objects, too. The children seemed to notice how they
had to move their bodies in different ways than we previously had when looking
into mirrors.
While I was setting up the mirror, a
few of the children noticed it bended a little and saw how it changed their
reflections. The children have also been exploring with the new mirror material
on the wall near the bathrooms, which also sort of acts like a fun house
mirror. I would like to focus on this type of reflection mirrors can show us.
Why do our reflections look so silly? What happens when we move, how do they
change?
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