Art Classes with Marjon F. Aucoin

She's back!!!! We have all been patiently waiting for art classes to start again, and the time has finally come!

Classes will resume on October 11th. There will now be two levels of classes available to the students.

The Study of Art Class

Includes an introduction to various professional grade art materials. Students will be free to explore drawing and painting skills. Art history is also a very important part of the classes and is used in as many art lessons as possible. Each student will present his final body of work at an art show at the end of the session. He will also receive a portfolio to bring his artwork home at the end of the show.


Personal Series Class + The Study of Art Class

These classes are offered to students who have been in The Study of Art Class for at least two sessions. They will be offered every Monday for six weeks. In addition to the Study of Art Class, each child will also work on a two-piece series on canvas. He will choose his preferred media: oil paint, acrylic, or water color. He will learn what a "series" of paintings is and choose the subject matter and composition on both canvases so that the pieces work together as one unit. He will then paint his two canvases using traditional painting techniques. These pieces will be worked throughout the six-week class period and will require multiple layers of paint and more individual attention. A greater emphasis on technique will be given in these classes. Each student will present his final body of work at an art show at the end of the session. He will also receive a portfolio to bring his artwork home at the end of the show.

Prices, Information, and Registration forms are located by the sign-in computer. Marjon will be at Little Wonders on Thursday, September 30th from 3:00 - 6:00 for consultations and registration.

For more informaiton on Marjon's work you can visit her blog and website at

http://marjonart.com/home.html

http://marjonillustration.blogspot.com/

Little Bases Demo

Today the children had a demo with Little Bases for a demo of the class.

This class will introduce the children to the fundamentals of baseball in a fun, interactive, yet noncompetitive environment!

They will learn skills such as hitting, catching, throwing, as well as developing hand-eye coordination.

The information and registration will be located by the sign in computer for anyone who is interested.

Classes will be on Fridays at 9:30

Let us know if you have questions.

for more information, you can visit the website at

http://www.chipambresyouthsports.com/LittleBases.html

Fall Festival Costumes

 The children have finalized what costumes they want to make.  Look on the clip board by the classroom to see what your child wants to be.  The children are bringing in recyclable materials, fabric, old clothes, glitter, paint, etc to help create them.  Any thing is welcome!"I want to be THAT scuba diver!"Hendrix is working on his goggles..

Phoenix is working on his "yellow fins" since he is going to be a fish!

Bishop is making a shark fin.....Noah wants to be a dinosaur, he started to make his costume, but then he really wanted to change his skin color! ;0)  Maybe if he closes his eyes no one will see him! lol

Houses and Cars

Look at the little village that is under construction in our room!

These houses have, "kitchens, doors, windows, beds, and TVs"!!!!!!We are cutting and gluing all of the things our houses need .......Can you see all the "rooms" in this house???

Of course we also need transportation to and from our houses, so Phoenix and Noah are making cars!  These are big cars..........

They count them, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, TWENTY!!"

Espanol!

We are excited to announce that Little Wonders has now teamed up with the Language Factory to incorporate Spanish into our curriculum! We are coordinating with a Spanish teacher at the Language Factory to create a Spanish lesson once a week to coincide with our current projects! She will teach them vocabulary, songs, and hold conversations with the children to help them learn Spanish.


The exciting thing is that we will learn songs and Spanish vocabulary that has to do with the subjects we are learning.

Classes will begin tomorrow September 10th at 10:00 a.m., they will be held at Little Wonders. This will be the only week that classes will be on Friday. Beginning next week classes will be every Monday.



Handouts will be provided after the classes start. If you have any questions feel free to ask Maryam.

which animals go in the water?

Today as we started talking about animals swimming in the water!  We put some water in the "ocean" and started grabbing animals that swim.  Some of the children grabbed the dinosaurs!  "Do dinosaurs swim in the ocean?"

"NO!!!!"

The children started sorting through the animals to pick out which ones could go in the "ocean".

Then, Bishop realized that the orca needed a bath!He bathed him and scrubbed him so that he could be clean again to play with his friends! ;0)And all of the "swimming animals" had fun in the ocean all morning long!

tell me more about animals

Everyday the children spend some time revisiting the project we have started on animals.  They will sit together, open up the books, and find the animals they see in the books.  They talk about them, what they eat, what they drink, and what their characteristics are.Noah lined them up for us, and we counted all of the animals.  Phoenix thought the animals should get on a train, so he lined up the blocks and all of the children helped put the animals on the train!

Where do they live? What do they eat?

Well, our love for animals is still strong!  We now have even more animals in our room since we are so interested in them...........

hmmmm..."can all of these animals live together?""What does the giraffe eat?  Where does it live?"  "Where does the whale eat?  Where does he live?"This lead us to grouping the animals together!  The children even started talking about the similarities between animals. "Orcas, and sharks, and dinosaurs have teeth!"  "Do whales have teeth?"  "NO!"

This lead the children to want to start building animals and houses out of blocks for the "animals that live on the ground"..............this beautiful house has a bed and a kitchen (aka chicken)!

Noah made a .......DINOSAUR!!!!Hendrix made this dinosaur, he wanted a picture taken, and when we asked him to smile........

Bishop and Tanay made this special underwater house, but sometimes if the dinosaurs want to, they can come to it! ;0)