Why create signs?
They also talked about the difference between man made and natural objects and phenomenom and thought of lots of examples which were written up on the board. Natural: moon, sun, stars, trees, roots, leaves, mud, human beings, flowers, water, clouds, lightening, animals, coal, gas, oxygen, birds, sand, potatoes, silk Man Made: letter-box, litter, paper/wood, plastic, furniture, clothes, wool, bricks, toys, shoes/leather, glass, ink, paint, food, trains, factories, buttons, wax, houses, cardboard We discussed how the two elements can work in unity – man and nature…wind in sails, water for power, etc. and we looked at the way symbols develop and are read universally, how they cross language and literacy boundries. Next the class was divided into two – man made and natural – and each child chose an object to draw. These individual drawings were simplified into signs and symbols and then cut out of black paper and scanned onto the computer where they were resized ready to be coloured in i
