A Message From JoAnne

Hello Preschool Families! As you may have noticed, we are making movies this spring. Each day of the week will be represented by a short film to be unveiled at our end-of-the-year family night. For my three days, we'll be producing "There Was an Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" (Tuesday), "Urban Arts Had a Farm" (Thursday) and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (Friday). We're making props, sets, costumes, puppets. . .everything we need for some top-rate productions!

There seems to be so few weeks left all of a sudden (and so much fun art still to try!). We'll fill in the rest of our weeks with more spring art (animals, plants, wind and rain). As part of our exploration of spring, I'd like to make a wind sculpture out of paper-covered dry-cleaner hangers. On a recent trip to Washington D.C., I saw an interesting sculpture made out of hangers at an art museum on the National Mall. I appreciated it for the reasons art museum patrons are supposed to, but my strongest reaction was: I could try this with preschoolers! So, if you have any paper-covered wire hangers around, or any connections at an area dry cleaner, we could use at least 15 - I've got two already. We'll paint on the paper and then connect them into a hanging sculpture that moves in a breeze.

I'm also interested in collecting large empty oatmeal cartons and plastic tubs with lids (the kind jumbo packs of pretzels and animal crackers come in). I'll use them this summer to make drums in our Shake It! Make It! camp.

When the weather improves (think warm thoughts everyone) I'd love to get us outside to make kites, sidewalk chalk and paint in the courtyard. Any day now. . . .

JoAnne

Summer Arts Camps

You can now register for our Summer Arts Camps. More information about camp offerings can be found at http://urbanartsacademy.org/summer_preschool_camps_2008_90441.html

Welcome

Thank you for visiting our new preschool blog. This was designed to be a place for us to communicate with parents and share what is going on at preschool. The blog will be updated weekly with new information from the teachers as well as some photos of children's work from time to time. We will have a calendar of events to help you stay informed. It would also be nice if parents would share family friendly activities they know about that are happening around the cities. You can do this by posting comments after a weekly entry. Please feel free to leave comments or ideas of other things you would like to see included on the blog. We hope you find this a useful communication tool.

Information about the Summer Preschool Art Camps will be coming very soon!