Dear Little Atelier families, How are you doing? Have you tried the activities we've been sending? At school, the teachers take turns and prepare group works or art activities each day. Monday : center activities Tuesday: art (Ms.Soyeon) Wed: group work (Ms.Stephanie) Thurs : group work (Ms.Esther) Fri : art (Ms.Soyeon) We've been sending emails a day before the days we are in charge so you can have time to get supplies if you need and plan your time ahead. For example, if you don't have enough potato for tomorrow, you can get it today. When working with children, organizing yourself is the key (minimize back-and-forth supply grabbing time, neatly organize supplies on the table so the children want to grab them and explore them), so you can minimize the distractions and the children can focus for long time without interruption. Here is an art activity suggestion for tomorrow. Title : Potato stamping art Supplies : Potatoes, Paring knife for carving shapes (or cookie cutter can work, too!) Pen or pencil to draw shapes Paint and small brushes Plate to use as a pallet Paper to stamp on
5. You can also carve your child's name letters and have them make their names. For example, you can carve S O Y E O N (6 letters). If you are working with more than one child, you don't have to carve the common letters twice or three times. Have them share. That's another way of learning commonality. (source: https://www.brit.co/potato-stamps/)
I don't want you to be overloaded with activities 🙂, but it is good to have resources. Enjoy the time with your children. It passes away fast. Warm regards, So yeon Good Morning families, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. Below are a few "practical life skills" activities that you can do with your children at home. Staying at home with family is a great opportunity for the children to learn how to help grownups with daily household tasks. Not only can they help grownups, but these life skills also develop the children's fine/gross motor, cognitive, and even social emotional skills! Little Matisse Class (2 years old) [Toy Cleaning Sensory Bin]
Little Picasso Class (3 years old) [Sorting Laundry]
Hope these activities will be helpful in teaching and engaging with the children in fun ways at home! I look forward to hearing/seeing how the children have been doing so far.
Thank you, Ms. Esther Good Morning everyone, Happy Wednesday! 😊 I hope you all found my email some what helpful last night. I am sending you all this email for an activity that you can do with your children (older and younger). In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought this activity might be fun for children to work/play with! You will need: -Shaving cream -White glue -Green paint/food coloring -Something to stir with -Markers -Scissors -Heavy duty paper Steps: 1.Start by drawing a shamrock on the paper and do not worry, it does not have to be perfect. (The older children can probably do this step themselves). 2.Mix 1 cup shaving cream with 1/4 cup of glue and add in the green coloring until your desired color. (If you do not have measuring cups, you can just eye-ball it). Get the children to help out with this step too! 3.Start playing/painting with your puffy paint on the shamrock! 4.Let it dry for 24 hours and cut out the shamrock! Here is the link in case you want more information: https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2012/03/st-patricks-day-sensory-play-craft.html I hope this sensory play can bring some fun and engagement on this gloomy day! I would love to see how it all turns out! P.S. If there are left over puffy paint, children can have some free painting time! They always love free draw at school 😁. Best wishes, -Stephanie Good Evening Little Atelier families, I hope this email finds you well! As you may have now heard, Little Atelier is closing for at least a week starting tomorrow and I know that some parents have reached out to us asking for ideas/activities that they can do at home with their children. We will send you activity suggestions Tuesdays-Fridays, just like what we do at school, so please check your emails regularly! Hope you can enjoy this time and make it as a memory making time with your children. For the first activity, how about making homemade playdough at home? This is how we make our playdough with the children at school. They love to play with it and we had such a great time making it from scratch. It is very simple if you have the ingredients. You will need: 2 cups of flour 1 cup of salt 1 teaspoon cream of tarter 2 tablespoons oil 1 teaspoon food coloring 2 cups water a drop of your favorite essential oil Directions: Mix ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat until the dough pulls away from the sides of the pan. Remove from heat, when cool to the touch, knead until soft and then form into balls. Store in an airtight container or bag when not in use. You don’t have to use essential oils in this recipe, I just love the way it makes the play-doh smell. source:https://www.housewifeeclectic.com/worlds-best-homemade-play-doh/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+HousewifeEclectic+(Housewife+Eclectic) Finally three-month journey has completed! It was a bunch of great experiences planning and executing the ideas, and we all had great time! At last pendulum painting turned out nice! At first the paint didn’t drip as the pendulum moved and I was little bit sweating😅. The painting came out magical and some of the 3’s children stayed and continued working on it past the snack time! Not a Stick!
What a fun art project it was! We read the book together and the children made interesting things with sticks, washi tapes, pipe cleaners, and crayons. The stick became a fort, whale, swing, helicopter, a spear that would save a princess, and a dog house, etc. I was amazed at their creativity and fun names! #notastick #preschoolart #amazing2sand3s #nycpreschool #reggioinspired #reggioemiliaapproach #littleatelier Claude Monet's Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies! The children called it "Bridge". #claudemonet #marblepainting #2's&3's #childrenart #preschoolart#littleatlier |
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