Philosopher's+Island

=What is philosophy?=

Where **is** away, I wonder ....
. =Island Reflections 1= Island Reflections Number 2 : //Michael Rosen's Sad Book// by Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake Island Reflections Number 3 : //The Big Orange Splot// by Daniel Manus Pinkwater Island Reflections Number 4 : //The English Roses// by Madonna Ritchie Island Reflections Number 5 : //Green Eggs and Ham// by Dr Seauss

//Art? If you can't see what I see, just wear my glasses// - Elizabeth

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running through their minds//.// This week, and unbeknownst to them, they landed in the field of aesthetics.//...//
=Reflecting on //[|Ish]// by Peter Reynolds=
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had been sneaking his crumpled drawings into her room and hanging them on her wall.
. //Leon burst out laughing. "What is that?" he asked//

**Students wondered...**
//How do we judge if a painting is good?// //Does art have to look real to be considered good?// //What do we mean by real?// //What do we mean by art?// //Is improvement important?// //Can something be perfect or even need to be perfect?// //Should Leon have kept his scorn to himself if it hurt Ramon's feelings?// //When we "wear our heart on our sleeve" does it matter?// //How important is other people's judgement in shaping what we do?// //Are we still creative if we alter what we do to suit others?// //Does creativity matter?//

Our Reflections on Their Reflections
//Dear Peggy//

//I was trying to remember some of the definitions of philosophy they started with, but it was such a deluge,// //and there's a hole in my brain bucket. Something about "letting your mind run away with you..."// //There were some very interesting drops...// //Lily had the idea that the consequence of wearing your heart on your sleeve is// //that it "gets bumped around" (I love the way her interpretation of the expression seems// //to be related to vulnerable positioning...I always assumed it was to do with not letting other// //people see it...ooh, and what does that reveal about me!?)// //Leah reflected that when we use the same word for something (e.g. the colour pink), that doesn't// //necessarily mean we are seeing the same thing.// //Elizabeth expressed the notion of 'seeing' things imaginatively or emotionally (still using the concept// //of 'sight' but recognising that there is something else going on between reality and our perception of it)// //and Leah thought that perhaps things are 'really' black, or without outlines, but the way our eyes work means// //we see the world with colour and outline// //Toni wondered about using grass to make green paint, to paint grass...(something interesting there// //about the relationship between the world and our representations of it)// //Hmm... they seem to be questioning the relationship between the world, our perception of it, and our// //representation of those perceptions...interesting...//

//See you next week,//

//Michelle//