Creativity Blog Post 2

Allowing time for creative thinking is always a key concept in classrooms. Allowing kids to really fulfill their own thoughts and be as imaginative as they wish is a great way for kids to learn a lot about not only themselves but about how they think. For example, you could do an activity where you give each child a slip of paper. On this slip of paper is a sentence and the child has to start writing a story based on the sentence you give them. This gives them the opportunity to take it into any direction they wish to go and allows them to be as goofy, silly, sad, happy, etc. as they wish. When I was cadet teaching the students made their own books and it was so interesting to see how each child's book was different because each student has their own creative style. Creative thinking allows students to learn about themselves, find their interests, and most of all it allows them to see each others creative sides.