The Little Prince, by Antony de Saint-Exupery is one of my favorite books. I have read it a couple of times, and every time I read it, I learn new ideas that I had not thought before. In situations I face in life, I keep thinking about quotes that suit perfectly the situation. Well, you can see that this book means a lot to me. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it!
The idea of working with The Little Prince began when in one of my visits to the bookstore (I love bookstores!), I found this brilliant version of the book, with pop-ups. I fell in love! But I did not purchase it at the moment. I spent weeks thinking about it and then I decided to use it for the Arts Club class. I decided to read it again, before purchasing the more expensive pop-up version. That was when the ideas started coming and I decided to finally buy the book online. Here is what I prepared:
I gathered the class, about 15 kids, around me, seating on the floor. I presented the book and gave some of the author's background to them and the circumstances that he wrote the book. I explained to them that we would read two to three chapters every week (the chapters are very short and of ease reading), we would discuss and make relations to topics from Jesus and/or Kardec teachings and then we would work on a project.
First chapter is all about how adults loose the ability to dream and see through facts. We correlated the situations with the passage from the bible when Jesus asks His disciples to let the children come to him, and he says one of the Beatitudes, about the pure of hearted. "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God." Jesus also says that we should be similar to a kid if we want to enter God's kingdom. We talked a little about that. Kids explained what they understood and we talked about how important it is to try to keep our hearts pure.
The second part of the study was hands-on. They were given material to start building the world through their own eyes. We divided them in three different groups and gave them a large peace of rectangular foam and material. They were encouraged to discuss with their pears about how they were going to build their world and start by the foundation. It was amazing to see their minds working. The projects got really cool ideas, and as the weeks go, we will keep reading the following chapters and going back to our project until they feel that they are done with it.
This is being a lovely journey! I will keep you posted about the next classes. I will post pictures of the classes and of the nice piece of art that is the book!
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