Fabulous Frogs!

Welcome, to The Stars Early Childhood Creative Arts Program winter semester!

Let’s hop into winter with the theme of Fabulous Frogs!

Housekeeping:

Superstars class has been moved to 2:00 on Friday afternoons for winter semester. We have a wonderful time in Superstars class exploring weekly themes through creative movement, creative drama, visual arts projects, and music. Superstars, you are welcome to bring friends to class on Friday afternoons with you! What a fun way to spend a play date, in a creative environment building lasting friendships and memories!

Rock Stars classes are held at 1:00 and 3:00. There are 2 openings in the 1:00 Rock Stars class and 1 opening in the 3:00 Rock Stars class. IF, any of you have friends you would like to invite to try the class, email me! We love visitors!

A few changes have been made for Star School 2010-11. Star School will accept 6 students instead of 10 students and parent volunteering will be recommended, not required. Applications will be available this Friday. Stars enrolled in the Friday creative arts classes receive priority enrollment and may turn in applications the last week of January. Open enrollment begins the following week.

Winter semester tuition is due. Please, have the first payment turned in on Friday if you have not already paid. Rock Stars first payment-$51.73 and the Superstars first payment-$54.25!

Fabulous Frogs!

Rock Stars, let’s take a big leap into winter with Fabulous Frogs week! This week is a great introduction to frogs for the little ones. We will explore different things about frogs: frogs lay eggs, have 4 legs, have a long tongue, hibernate in the winter, jump, and swim. We will open up “Hello Circle” with a fun song about frogs to the tune of The Mulberry Bush, explore frog movements during “Running Revolution” with an emphasis on jumping off of two feet and landing on two feet, engage in abstract thinking by pretending we’re frogs jumping from lily pad to lily pad and landing in the pond to the music of Crazy Frogs, sing Five Green & Speckled Frogs, create frog eggs with food art, and wrap up class with the story Little Green Frogs. What an exciting class to look forward to!

Superstars, we’re going to have a wonderful time bouncing around class as frogs and exploring the life cycle of frogs. We will creatively move our bodies to explore the life cycle of frogs: frog egg, tadpole, tadpole w/legs, froglet, and adult frog. We will use closed and open shapes to explore each of these stages of a frog’s life. Superstars will be exploring the element of time in dance by creatively moving like a frog for 7 counts and freezing on the 8 count. While exploring the count of 8 we will be using long streamers as frog tongues. Superstars, will participate in acting out the song Five Green & Speckled Frogs, create a crayon drawing on white paper and paint over it with thinned paint (a technique that mimics the finished product of a Batik masterpiece in a kid friendly way). We will finish off class with the story Little Green Frogs! Let’s get jumping!!!

See you, Friday!