Making themselves

§  Respecting self

§  Respecting others

What you need:

§  Empty toilet paper tubes or small juice boxes

§  Photos of each child

§  Glue

§  Yarn

§  Fabric

§  Crayons

§  paints

§  . .

Activity: 

            Have each child make a picture of themselves.  Allow the children to talk during the activity so they can see what others are saying at the same time.

Extensions:

§  The children can use their picture  people during circle time to act out situations that have occurred in the program.

§  The children can use their picture  people to work out problems by using the pictures to say what they might have trouble saying directly.

§  The children can make picture of their family members, or use old magazine pictures to make blocks of a variety of people as they learn about them.

§  Make personalized puzzles by gluing pictures of the children to cardboard and then cutting them into puzzle shapes.

§  Read the following book to your children:

Just Because I Am: A Child's Book of Affirmationby L.M. Payne, (Free Spirit Publishing, 1994)

Kim Ernst

Hdev 25-KELLIE BLISS

March 17, 2012

Children's Film Critique

 

101 Dalmatians was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi.  The movie was released in 1992.  The movie is about a wicked old lady named Crudella  Vil and henchmen kidnap the Dalmatians puppies from their parents Pongo and Perdita.  Crudella wants the Dalmatians fur for her newest jacket.

  

She will stop at nothing to get what the wants.  Pongo and Perdita realized that their puppies were missing they went out to find them.  It is a very cute story.  I watched it several times when I was younger and then of course with my own children.  Now that I am taking this class I watched it again and noticed the stereotypes and gender roles.

 We have all watched and grown up with the Disney movies of the 101 Dalmatians.  Walt Disney said, “Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards-the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” (Disney)  Walt Disney had the best intentions in all of his movies to support the best values and expose the children to the best values. In reality though this is not true, instead it has exposed our children to more bad values than good values.

One stereotype in the 101 Dalmatians is the villain is portrayed as an ugly super skinny old woman.  She smokes cigarettes throughout the whole movie.  Not all villains need to be made out to be old.  Just because they are old doesn’t mean they need to a villain.

 It shows the children that if smoke and have crazy hair then you are a villain.  The evil stereotype is written about Crudella  Vil.  Also in the movie they focus on all the fancy things  and how you need to have everything that everyone else.   

In the movie Perdita, the mother of the dog is written to be weak and shows that women need to be weak in the movies.  We should be having the women be strong and powerful women.

Older women are usually the villain of the stories.  The children need to see less of this.  There needs to more mural and good things portrayed throughout the videos.  The children need to be taught that women of any age can be the winner.  There needs to be some villains that are pretty.  We need to be able to teach our children that they don’t need materialistic things to make them happy.  It is what inside that makes you so cool. 

 The little girls need to be seeing women in powerful roles and not just doing housework or sewing.  Women are business people too. 

Disney movies have a lot of influence on our children.  The Disney movies influence them by exposing them to subliminal messages.  The also influence our children with racist values, and sexists thoughts.  The Disney movies have a lot of bad morals that they are advertising to our children.  The children are the future for us.  We should be influencing them with messages that are showing them that can be whoever they want to be.  We need to send the message that it doesn’t matter what you are wearing or how you look.  It matters how you portray yourself and how you think of yourself.  The children need to see movies that are showing more successful and more achieving goals.  That way when they get older they will understand about having goals and achieving them.  There is not better feeling that achieving a goal and getting to set a new and even better goal to achieve.  The movie industry needs to think about what kinds of stereotypes they are portraying in the movies and who it will affect and have influence upon.  The movie industry needs to be aware of the racist values that they have hidden in their movies.  They also need to be aware that they are putting bad morals in the movies for the little innocent eyes of our children.  They need to be putting good morals and showing more of that instead in the movies for the children to be watching.  The children go around acting out these movies all the time and it’s all fun and games for now.

Children’s Picture Book Analysis and Evaluation
Disney Princess:  Time for the Ball
Book Title:  Disney Princess:  Time for the Ball
Author:  Lara Bergen
Illustrator:  The Disney Storybook Artist
Year of Publication:  2005
Description:
I choose to do my analysis and evaluation on Disney Princess:  Time for the Ball by Lara Bergen illustrated by the Disney Storybook artists.  The story was based of Cinderella they have just renamed it.  It was written by the Disney Company.  Time for the Ball is about Cinderella hears about the Prince having a ball and he will find his princess there.  Cinderella’s step mother heard that she wants to go the ball and she doesn’t want Cinderella to go to it.  She wants her daughters go to it and she know that the prince will fall in love with Cinderella because she is beautiful and she is nice and sweet.  Another hand her daughters aren’t nice and they don’t have manners and they want everything but they don’t want to do anything for anybody else.  Cinderella’s friends which are the birds and mice help put together a beautiful dress to wear to the ball.  She was ready to go when the step sisters tore her dress to pieces.  They left and she went to the garden crying.  Her fairy Godmother came down and did her magic and turned her dress to a beautiful dress and her mice into coach men and the pumpkin into a carriage.  She was told she had till twelve o’clock and then the spell will be done.  She went and danced with the prince and they were falling in love.  Then the clock started to strike twelve and she took off running down the stairs where she dropped one of her glass slippers.  The prince picked it up and told his men that they were to find the girl that was wearing it because he wanted to marry her. They went to the house where Cinderella was living and the step sisters tried to fit their cubby feet into the tiny slipper and they couldn’t.  The prince was about to leave when Cinderella came down the stairs with the matching pair. They got married and lived happily ever after.

This story has some stereo types for women can only be beautiful, skinny, and have small feet.  It also shows that you have to wear big beautiful dresses to pretty.  It also shows s that men have the power and that women just need to dress pretty and have polite manners.  The voices that are heard in this story are the stepmother and the prince.  The voices that are missing are that of a strong woman saying that it doesn’t matter you look like it is all about what is on the inside that does matter.  Looks are just for now because over time everyone goes through changes and then they look different.  But what you have on the inside will never grow old.
I have to admit who doesn’t like the Cinderella story but when you step back and take a look at it.  What are we letting our little girls believe?  I don’t want my girls to think that they need to be waiting for a prince charming to come and sweep them off their feet.  I want to them to believe themselves and to love themselves that is what is important.

My name is Kim Ernst.  I was given my name by my parents.  My middle name is Lynn and that was my mother's middle name.  My first and only language is English. I don't speak any other language.  I grew up in Roseville for entire life.  I moved to Loomis about 7 years ago.  So born and raised in Roseville for almost twenty five years.  I am white, but I have whale, German and a couple of others too but I can't remember.  My culture well its pretty basic its really just simple and easy going.  I am a firm believer on family.


What is important to me.....well I have to be honest is my children, my fiance, and my family.  Material things don't mean a lot to me.  The most important thing that a  teacher could do is to listen to the child and try to connect with each and every child no matter what. 


About me, well I am 34 years old. I have been through one divorce and had two beautiful children with him.   I am with my fiance and we have been like this for like 7 years and I have two children with him.  My first two children have white and Mexican in them and my youngest have white and black.  They are so cute. I have a big family and I have 2 sisters and one brother who is like 5 years younger than me.  He actually just told us that he is having a baby.  I think it is so awesome that he is having one.  He has been through a lot and this is going to perfect for him.  


I have four children. I have a 13 year old girl, 11 year old boy, 7 year old girl and a 5 year old boy.  We live in a little house and my fiance is going to school too.  I am currently working at a private school in Roseville.  I have been there teaching Jr. Kindergarten for 4 years.  Before that I was at Granite Bay Christian Preschool in Roseville for 16 years.  I loved it there!!!  My mom is a preschool teacher there and she has been there for like 30 years.  She is the best teacher ever.  She taught me everything that I know.  My oldest sister has her own Home preschool and Daycare business that she runs out of her house.  And my other sister works at a copy and mail store.  My dad is a janitor and Mr. Fix it at my place of work.  He has been there for over 25 years.  


I am taking this course for my AA degree and I am interested in the culture and diversity because of my work but also my own home life too. With my free time I like to spend time with my fiance who does so much for me right now and my children.  I like to listen to all kinds of music, but I can't handle guitar heavy metal stuff.  I get migraines and that is a trigger for it.