February Artist of the Month – Georgia O’Keeffe

This month’s In-class Art Enrichment welcomes the Spring with the colorful flowers of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. “The artistic brilliance of Georgia O’Keeffe revolutionized modern art in both her time and in the present.  With her paintings she vividly portrayed the power and emotion of objects of nature.  This was first seen in her charcoal drawings [...]

Rain, rain, go away…

This week in Pre-K, we have been talking about the spring season, which includes lots of rain!! We did lots of cool things this week, like learning the parts of a plant and how plants grow. As scientists we made several predictions about what would happen if we put a white carnation in water with [...]

Special guest makes special memories

One of our incredible Toddler Moms paid a visit on Tuesday to share her artistic talents with the class. She brought beautiful potted flowers and encouraged the children to smell, touch, and observe the different characteristics of the blooms. Then she led them into a painting extravaganza, giving color to her “plain” flowers… (which were [...]

Rain, rain, go away…

This week, the Pre-K students discussed April showers and it’s importance, as well as things they enjoy doing when it  rains.  As botanists, we observed the cause and effect of water on our growing plants.  As meteorologists, we predicted the weather and are measuring rainfall.  We also discussed the water cycle using new vocabulary words including [...]