Day two began in the auditorium with Hillary leading "Decomposers" and Zach leading "Food-Chain." Without our usually costumes we had to call upon our interpretive movement skills to portray the producer (Erin), prey (Mike), predator (Ali) and decay (Zach)!
The morning sessions focused on how to use art in outdoor education. Hillary lead Solo Walk Poetry and encountered a few teaching challenges: helpful students picking up the cards, rainy weather and lack of time. Erin lead Sound Maps and later received a compliment from a student for creating a safe environment to be creative. Zach and Mike team taught Perspective Stories for half of the group, while Ali taught the other half. Many unique stories and poems were recited, mostly in Chinese! Including stories about cicadas, crabs, paper mulberry trees and rhinoceros beetles!
We were delighted to discover that the "box" lunches prepared at Guandu Nature Park are served in individual stainless steel lunch containers, which are washed and reused! No paper or plastic waste!
The afternoon sessions focused on thematic learning. We choose to focus on birds, with a local bird Each-One Teach-One (E1T1), Bird Beak Buffet and Mystery Bird "Who am I?" has the main lessons. Several students impressed Hillary and Erin with their creative presentations during E1T1. Bird Beak Buffet had several folks giggling as the watched their peers crawl around trying to "eat" bird food (litchi seeds and beans, etc.) with clothes pin "beaks." Laughter was also heard during Mystery Bird "Who am I?" has students scrambled to collect clues!
The workshop ended with another reflection, discussion and question session. Several students shared that they enjoyed IslandWood's philosophy of taking the time to debrief activities and reflect. The workshop was a success! For the students and us! We all greatly enjoyed the opportunity to share what we've learned at IW over here in TW.
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