Happy Valentine's!

Welcome, to Valentine’s Week!

This lesson is a fabulous opportunity to explore opposites! The Happy Valentine's theme is centered around the heart shape. The heart is a shape whose top is opposite from its bottom (rounded on top and pointy on bottom).

Housekeeping:

Our next service project’s goal is to raise money for the SmileTrain, an organization that performs surgeries to correct clefts and other problems for your children. We are selling beautiful personalized mother’s bracelets to raise the money. $10 from each bracelet will go toward the organization. Just $50 provides all the medication needed for a patient undergoing surgery, $150 covers half a surgery, and $250 covers an entire surgery. Whatever amount we can raise will help! There are a few important dates coming up, like: Easter and Mother's Day where a bracelet could be put away as a gift for one of these special occasions. I will pass out order forms this Friday and collect all orders February 19th! Please, allow 2 weeks for the bracelets to be completed once the orders are received.

The tentative date to be in SugarSpace (616 E. Wilmington Ave.) is March 19th (the last day of winter semester). This is very exciting to have our classes taking place in a professional arts establishment. Check out their website, www.thesugarspace.com. The classes are not advertised on the website, yet. Although, you can get a feel for the space and what it offers in addition to The Stars Early Childhood Creative Arts classes.

Valentine’s Week

The heart is a popular shape on Valentine’s Day. It is a shape that carries a lot of symbolism. Its top is opposite from its bottom, round vs. pointy. This week we will be exploring opposites: tall-short, fast-slow, loud-quiet, heavy-light, thick-thin, happy-sad, calm-energetic, round-pointy, etc.

Rock Stars! We will introduce our theme with using a favorite children’s songs to explore opposites, If You’re Happy And You Know It! Running Revolution will provide us the opportunity to creatively move our bodies while exploring opposites. We will dance with colorful scarves for Group Activity, play xylophones exploring opposites of: fast vs. slow, loud vs. soft, decorate Valentine’s, and enjoy a Valentine’s story!

SuperStars! We will have a wonderful time exploring opposites. We will sing If You’re Happy And You Know It while exploring opposites, creatively move our bodies to explore opposites, play an opposites movement game where we’ll each take turns being the leader while the rest of the class does the opposite of what the leader does, explore the opposites of largo vs. allegro and piano vs. forte with xylophones, create a Valentine’s Day surprise, and enjoy a Valentine’s story!

I’m looking forward to seeing you in class!