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- Early Dismissal Thursday, April 17th @11:30
- Spring Long Weekend. April 18th-April 21st. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 22nd at 10:00am
- SAVE THE DATE! EARLY CHILDHOOD SHOWCASE – Thursday, May 8th @ 5:30 p.m.
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- Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
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On April 17th, the fifth-grade class will be hosting a Spring Egg Hunt for our PS-4th grade students on main campus. We have lots of plastic eggs from previous years but we need your help in gathering items to fill the eggs. If you are able to donate a dozen small toys, trinkets, stickers, or candy for the school, we would love to have them by Monday, April 14. Thank you in advance for your help in making this a special event for our students!
Hello Preschool Families!
Pablo Picasso once said “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”
Preschool is now in the beginning phase of bringing each of their museums to life and just like Pablo Picasso, give us a museum and we will fill it! Last week the children journaled “If I had a museum”. As we like to say “it’s possible here” … so at 3 and 4 years old it’s possible here to create your own museum.
These were there ideas:
Avery – “I will have a Science Museum. I will have science toys in there, we will learn about space and maybe Nerf Guns”
Isla -“This is a Rainbow Museum. You just do like rainbow things”
Archie -“Mine will be The Museum of Letters. They will go on a letter hunt! You have to climb the letters, they will be different things”
Khy- “This is my Museum of Spiderman because I like him. People will look at Spiderman art and people can build webs.
Levi – “It will be a Museum of Toys, You can with with toy rainbows”
Emma – “A Monster museum, just because I like monsters”
Hunter -“It will be a Sonic Museum. Look I made a sad face. The Sonic Museum is just a sad face, It’s not Sonic, it’s actually a sad museum”
Romeo -“My museum will be the Museum of Elephants. My museum will have lots of elephants, it will have mom elephants and dad elephants. It will have lots of baby elephants because they are cute, People will learn about what they eat and what their snacks are.”
Lennon – “The Museum of Letters, the people will play with letters and it will be colorful”
Brody – “My Museum of Rainbows. We will go on a rainbow hunt and look for colors . They can build with rainbows.”
Lincoln – “The Museum of Monster Trucks. They will play with monster trucks and build lego trucks, you can play in tires.”
Ben – “My Museum of Rainbows, there will be a Sonic”
Evelyn – “This is a Happy Museum and a Dress Museum. It’s both. I work there and. clean it. All the girls pick which dress”
Roman – “This is a Hiding Place Museum. I’m making a dinosaur piled high so I can sleep in it with a pillow and a blanket. and there’s games.”
Lily – “So there’s planets in my museum. They can eat sandwiches in there and people will look at planets.”
Clara -“The Museum of Princess’s. You can play with them and look at them and there will be dresses!”
Audrey -“It is a Minnie Museum. You rude around on a penguin. There’s a bug, huge butter there too!”
Atticus- “This is a Monster Museum. You stop around like a dinosaur, you roll like a grasshopper, and then you chop things with a knife and there’s mowing and a spaceship.
The first step to filling a museum though, is to build one! We read the story The Museum by Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds. A little girl ventures to a museum and as she skips and whirls from room to room the exhibits evoke joy, wonder, curiosity and inspiration, her inner artist unleashed! When presented with an empty canvas she is invigorated to create and express herself, the greatest thing that art allows us to do! We then revisited the children’s blue prints for their museum ideas this week, feeling inspired, the children used air dry clay, loose parts and acrylic paint markers, to create their mini museum structures!
On Wednesday we began to work on our pieces for our first museum … The Museum of Letters and explore our first artist in our artist study, Andy Warhol. We read the ABC’s of Andy Warhol, admiring the beautiful penmanship of letters from Andy Warhols mother and the whimsical illustrations created by Andy Warhol himself of images representing each letter. The children then learned about the King of Pop Art and his most notable style -Screen Printing. Focusing on the letter A the students were invited to create their very own screen prints of the letter A to display in our museum. The kiddos were given little pencils to write their letter A’s on to a foam tray. Next, they chose their choice of paint color to add on to their tray, then using a new art tool, brayers, they rolled the paint onto the trays, allowing it to soak into their A’s, lastly they pressed their paper onto the painted trays and pressed down, then giggled in excitement as we pulled them up and their A’s were magically transferred to the paper!
The beauty of a museum is that it’s a place where everyone feels like they belong, a place where anything can be beautiful. We are so excited to continue our study of museums and artists and share the beauty of belonging through the eyes of your children.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend, with the faces so adorable that they belong in a museum!
Miss Arden, Miss Meredith & Miss Airry
MUSEUM ARCHITECTS
ANDY WARHOL SCREEN PRINTING
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