Kid Pix Computer Leader Contact Session Form

 

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Use this form to send me an email about today's Kid Pix activity. You cannot type directly on this page. Therefore, this is what you must do: You must be using Netscape Communicator for this to work. Netscape communicator is on the machines at the Rutgers labs (eg at Records Hall)

1: From the FILE menu choose EDIT PAGE

Once you are in edit page mode you can type all the information you need to type on that page.

2. After you finish typing in all the needed information choose from the FILE menu SEND PAGE. It will bring up a blank email form that flashes by quickly and then gets placed on the bottom of the screen with the words Play Leader. Click on that to bring up the email form. Then change the subject from Play Leader Contact Session Form to Activity Name, Kid ID# Date eg Firefighter Frank, 2003, 02/25/98. In the TO: field type yepstein@rci.rutgers.edu Then just click on the send button and the message will be sent.

 

Leader's First name

Last name

Home Phone

E-mail

 

Enter the date of today's Session :

Time of day when session started:

Time of day when session ended:

Information about the child you played with 

Date of birth

Sex: __ Male __Female

Child's ID number:

 

Describe the mood of the child when you began to work with him or her:

 

 

Describe any physical conditions that apply: Here are some examples.

Today the child:

had a cold; had to go to the bathroom; looked sleepy; had trouble concentrating

Now Please describe the physical conditions that apply to your child today.

 

How did you begin this activity?

  

What was your opening line?

 

Did the child use the mouse and keyboard to draw her or his own picture today or did you work the computer on behalf of the child. Describe precisely who did what?

 

 

What features of the program did the child use? (eg. Stamps, freehand drawing. Special visual effects etc.)

 

Describe what happened as the child made the picture.

 

Describe the picture that your child made

 

 

When the picture is finished print it out. Then switch to WordPefect and import the picture into WordPerfect (as per the directions on the web site). Then, say to the child: "Look at your picture. Now tell me a story about your picture." Then type the story exactly as the child tells it to you. When you have finished typing the story, read it back to the child.

Describe how the child went about telling you the story. Was he eager/reticent/long-winded, etc. Did he/she seem to have an image in his mind or was he merely going on and on? It may be hard for you to know that initially, but ultimately you will get to know your child.

 

Next, you, the leader try to help the child make some connection between the story and the picture. Say: "Oh here is a bee. Did you ever see a bee? Did you ever hear a story about a bee. Etc." You are trying to help the child make a connection between this story and a memory of a previous experience (if indeed there is such a memory.) Or, you are helping the child realize that he/she has created an imagination image from which he/she is working, ie. a strongman with a skullhead that is stimulating the story.

 

Now, you become a model and make a picture and tell a story. Make sure that your picture is not too intricate and your story is simple but contains the following elements:

  1. Rich characters (particularly those portrayed in the picture)
  2. Conflict
  3. Beginning, middle, and end
  4. Dialogue

After telling your story, you tell the child how you went about creating your story. You do this by commenting on those aspects of the picture that stood out for you.

 The next step is to tell the child "I would like you to make another picture for me. This time, before you make your picture, I'd like you to think a little bit about the story you will write about this picture. The part I liked best about your last story was (the richest character, the best conflict, you choose what you want your child to recreate and say it to her or him)".

The child will begin to do a picture. Don't interrupt him by asking him about the picture that he will do. Let him/her do the whole picture. Ask him/her to tell you when s/he is finished. Then praise the picture and say "I would like you to write a story about this picture. Would you like to tell me the title first or tell me the story and then give it a title? Let me type it for you."

  1. Describe what happened as the child made the picture.

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  2. Describe how the child went about telling the story

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  3. Discuss your follow-up of the story in terms of the way the child or you connected the picture and the story to each other or to the child's previous experince(s).

 

 

 

 

 

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 Material on this site created by Helane S. Rosenberg, Ph.D. and Yakov M. Epstein, Ph.D. in conjunction with their forthcoming book titled Play for Success. All material on this site is copyrighted and may not be reproduced or cited without written permission of Helane S. Rosenberg, Ph.D..

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Copyright Helane S. Rosenberg, Ph.D. and Yakov M. Epstein, Ph.D.

Last revised: February 14, 1998