Let’s Celebrate! Snacking on homemade cranberry bread and talking about favorite winter snacks started our celebration. Next, the girls finished their “Snowy Day” projects. Inspired by the front cover of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, the girls cut out their snowy scenes and glued them onto illustration board. They added blocks of color [...]
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Culminating Celebration-Winter2010!
Posted in Culminating Celebration, Giving, Poetry, St. James, Winter 2010 on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Featured Artist 2-Ezra Jack Keats 1916-1983
Posted in Featured Artist, St. James, Winter 2010 on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our opening ritual–Liya choosing a special treasure and sharing a favorite snow day. The girls were given watercolor pencils to do their art project. When using art materials for the first time, it is helpful to experiment with that material and practice using it before beginning an art project. A work in progress. The Snowy [...]
Featured Artist – Jan Brett!
Posted in Featured Artist, St. James, Winter 2010 on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jan Brett, of course! Since our theme has been winter and we had focused our storytelling activities on her book, The Mitten, Jan Brett seemed like a natural choice. (Ezra Jack Keats will be our Featured Artist this coming week). Jan Brett has illustrated so many books and they are all so fabulously detailed. We [...]
The Mitten- A Storytelling Experience, part 2
Posted in St. James, Storytelling, Winter 2010 on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Opening Ritual: After eating our snack of blueberry muffins and sharing what each girl’s favorite winter book was, the girls enjoyed laughing through another listening game… LEARNING THE STORY: Last week one of the girl’s asked how I had remembered the whole story, The Mitten by Jan Brett. So, this week I gave the girls [...]
The Mitten -A Storytelling Experience
Posted in St. James, Storytelling, Winter 2010 on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
*Note* — My camera was misplaced and so I didn’t have it with me during this workshop to take pictures of the girls. Sorry about that! Opening Ritual – After our snack the girls had an opportunity to participate in an exercise to improve listening effectiveness. Listening during storytelling is an important skill. They lined [...]
Winter Trees
Posted in Artist Materials, St. James, Winter 2010 on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
St. James, Winter 2010, Artist Materials, Week 3 I found this week’s art project on a fabulous website, www.artprojectsforkids.org. This resource has art projects of all kinds for all ages. It is a wonderful resource. I found a project on How to Draw Winter Trees. Before we dove into our project, we went outside to [...]
Winter White Accordion Books
Posted in Artist Materials, Collage, St. James, Winter 2010 on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
St. James, Winter Session, Artist Materials, Week 2 Materials waiting to be used…yarn, ribbon, Q-tips, glitter paper, pom-pom balls, cotton balls, paper, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and felt. 4 panels on an accordion book to be creative with all white materials to create winter scenes. Let the creating begin! Focused girls also having a little [...]
Winter Poetry
Posted in Poetry, St. James, Winter 2010 on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
St. James, Winter Session, Week 1 Happy New Year! I am very excited to begin a new year with your creative children! Our first session together began as we settled into our opening ritual…sharing names, sharing something each girl was good at, eating homemade strawberry muffins, and listening to many winter poems. I found some [...]
