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Growing Artists in the Woods

This program is a fine arts enrichment program for 4, 5 and 6 year olds (Kindergarten students welcome).

Fine Arts Program - Tues/Thurs afternoons from 12:45 - 3:00 pm $100.00 per month

Children must be 4 years old by December 31 of the current school year.

Physical Development

Children will have opportunities to develop fine and gross motor skills, coordination and spatial awareness.

Social/Emotional Development

Children will learn: self-awareness and expression through working together towards a common artistic goal; acceptance and belonging through group endeavours; and how to participate in ways as unique as each one of them.

Cognitive Development

Children will be encouraged to think creatively and divergently, respecting the ideas of others - that it is OK to be different and have different ideas. Through open-ended questions and an atmosphere of acceptance, higher levels of thinking, reasoning and problem-solving will be prompted by the teachers.

Creative Development

Thinking "outside the box" as we ponder "what if" questions, expressing themselves through movement and music, visual and tactile art, and drama, children's innate creativity will be valued.

Language Development

Through poetry, story-telling, and listening and songs, children will develop their awareness of the rhyme, metre, and cadence of spoken language. Their vocabulary and language sounds will be enhanced through stories, songs, dramatization of familiar stories and stories of their own creation.

Music

The children will experience a Kodaly-based music program. Using the voice as the principal instrument, children will introduced to pitch, melody and solfege hand symbols. They will learn to recognize and duplicate beat and rhythm with their bodies and with percussion instruments. The teachers will invite the children's response to art music through movement, props and the visual arts.

Drama

Drama is a form of expression providing children a creative outlet. They interpret and create stories through language, emotion and imagination. The teachers will facilitate and guide the children as they develop their ideas.

Movement

Music is all around us every day, whether it be rhythmic tap of a woodpecker. the melody of the doorbell or the chaotic sound of traffic. Stories and music evoke thoughts and feelings in children which they often translate into movement.

Visual Art

Art is an open-ended activity that encourages discovery, exploration, experimentation, creativity and originality. Through their drawings, paintings and sculpting, children reveal what they know about their world, their thoughts and emotions and the rich world of their imaginations. We will integrate some of the art experiences with the drama and music components of the program.

Fun

Children are playful by nature. We will endeavour to provide a safe, accepting and exciting environment where each child will grow and blossom. Their laughter will fill our days.

NOTES: Classes run from September to June inclusive. There is a yearly non-refundable registration fee of $45.00. There is also a deposit cheque of $200.00 - once parents have completed 1 Bingo, their cheques will be returned to them. A non-refundable cleaning fee of $30.00 is also required.

For more information, call Charlotte DeCicco at 490-5079 or e-mail her at registrar@woodvaleplayschool.org.