Playing to Learn

Hey, hey, wassuppp?!? I'm Cristina and a new ZeumMaster at the Z house. Lol. I'm just chillaxin at Zeum writing my first blog of all times!!! SUPER COOL HUH!!!! I'm soOOooOo intrigued that I recieved this job. When I was in the process of applying to Zeum I wasn't sure of what Zeum had in store for me. I expected wonderful things but I didn't know that it would be this good. First of all I have a long background of "supervising children" but really I just ABSOLUTELy love KiDZZzz. I swear they brighten up my whole life with one smile. I liteweight wish that I could be SUPERWOMAN and save all children from deviance. LOL, but that's beside tha point..

Not only does the Zeum embody the 3 C's ( Collabration, Communication, and Creativity) it makes the children strive to use their imagination to create wonder and beauty. That's what makes this job AWESOME! Like there are some kids that come to the Zeum with low self-esteem yet, when they leave here they are touched with a light that they can create ANYTHING!!! If I ever can "touch" a child's life and make them feel that at least a lil better than before it's worth it, and at Zeum this is what we do.

Today, specifically we had a training to strengthen our knowledge in how we approach children and help them learn. We are broadening our targeted ages to 3-12 and we need to make changes on how we make things more fun for the younger audience. So anyways today, in the morning we had a training like we do most mornings.

One of our staff led a training this morning to teach zeummasters how children develop and how to interlock this knowlegde into what we do at ZEUM. Well we learned alot, that connected me back to my psychology class. We got to see how kids learn through play. After playing a vicious game of blocks, : p, we quickly saw how children play and where we fall in that process. We were confronted with the issue of playing well and playing to win. We at Zeum don't want to encourage playing to win as much as playing well. Children need to know that collaboration and solving simple problems with creativity is the same as winning. Every object a child makes is in turn them succeeding, it reflects their hard and complete work. At Zeum every one is a champion, because they are challenging themselves to trumpth. WELLL i gotsZ to get back to my JOB!!!

LOVE ALWAYS,

CRiSTiNA

P.S. i LOVE MY JOB!!!