Kindergarten and Grade 1 September 27-October 1

We are taking a line for a walk through our day. Using the sides of our crayons we will make the line "jump" out of bed, brush our teeth and even move as we chew our breakfast and ride to school. These should be interesting and fun pictures of moving lines and colors.

Nursery and PreK - September 27 to October 1

Mark making continues to be our focus. This week we will take our "car" markers out for a drive across big paper spread on the table or floor. Other marking materials will be avialable in the art activity center in the classroom.

Kindergarten and Grade 1 September 20-24

Introducing the Shape Family

The first member of the shape family is the square. Students will use different sizes and colors of squares to create a robot. They will be practicing their cutting and pasting skills along with their fantastic imaginations.

Nursery and PreK - September 20-24

This week our youngest Discovery students will continue to explore mark making with a variety of materials; crayons, markers, and chalk on papers and paint brushes on the sidewalk. They will exercise their fine and gross motor skills by using the different materials on different surfaces. As always with our young folks it is the process that is most satisfying.

Kindergarten and Grade 1 September 6-10

The Curved Line Family

Objectives of this Week's Lesson are continued from last week.

• Actively identify types of line in the environment.
• Accurately demonstrate an understanding of how curved lines can be used in art.
• Learn a little about how artist get ideas.
• Demonstrate skill and craftsmanship in gluing (learn techniques).

We will meet the curved line and its family of cousins. We will look for curved lines in master art works and in our environment. Then we will draw with curved lines only. In our second lesson we will make curving shapes from flat papers.

Above are examples of some of our straight line art works.

Nursery and PreK - September 6-10

Introducing Sensory Tubs

This week we are introducing sensory tubs. We know that the sense of touch is powerful and key to our learning processes. It is important for young people to have a wide variety of tactile experiences. Sensory tubs give your young one the opportunity to explore a variety of materials thoroughly without being told to - "be careful", "don't play with your food", "don't spill" or "don't get dirty". Each week we will explore two different materials, one wet (ooey gooey) and one dry. This week one tub will be full of cooked pasta shapes and the other one will have a variety of dry beans and rice. Hmmm, I wonder what we will cook up next week?