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Artree: online preschool

  • About Artree Preschool
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    • More art ideas
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What We Are Up To Right Now

We learnt a lot about lighthouses today – how they guide ships, how the guiding lights evolved over time, how they operate and how they’re built. Lighthouse keepers in the past had their hands full keeping the light on. We didn’t have enough real-life material to build a lighthouse and to be the keeper, but we had sharpies and chalk and oil pastels, so we drew them instead. We also practiced math by sorting sea shells.
Have you noticed how your hair floats up when you jump into the water? We have and we absolutely love it! We decided to make an underwater self-portrait with exactly that kind of hair, with a few extras – goggles and a snorkel. We used bright oil pastels to give ourselves some color, and then painted over and splashed a bit of watercolors to get an authentic underwater look 🤿🌊 We also read a counting book called “1, 2, 3 by the sea” and practiced the “er” sound as is sister, ginger, dinner, or underwater.
We’re continuing our underwater exploration with an appropriately titled book – Underwater. We read about whales, starfish, octopuses, sea anemones, strange fish such as the angler fish, seahorses and sea turtles. We got so excited about the turtles that we combined them with math into a short turtle-counting song. We also learnt more about where fish live and what a coral reef is all about. Then we pulled out sharpies and chalk pastels, and created a colorful picture of a terrific turtle.
Fancy fish and cool crabs are on our mind, and we can’t decide which ones we’re interested in more. We talked more about water, and read a story about a rainbow fish. We also read a book about crabs and other sea animals. Since we’ve used glue in a number of our art projects, we were thrilled to add the sound “ue” into our sound book while using the glue once more to create a super fancy fish out of recycled materials. Then we painted several sheets of paper with acrylic paint and texturized them. Once they dried up, we practiced fine motor skills, cut them up and glued the pieces together to create the coolest of the cool crabs!
We are back for the month of June with water adventures! We’re starting off by reading about and discussing the ocean and water, and why water is important. We’re also using water as the focus point for this month’s art projects. If you have a pipette or a straw, and some liquid watercolors or food coloring, join us in creating colorful abstract art on paper towels. If you have a sharpie on hand, we invite you to create a droplet to tell your story about water.
Butterfly wings can have the most amazing colors – bright blue, various shades of purple, or a very crisp mix of black and orange 🦋 But that is not how they are born. It starts with several pairs of legs and a larvae-like body, sometimes smooth and sometimes hairy – yup, a caterpillar 🐛 We learnt all about the transformation from a caterpillar into a butterfly today. Butterflies were also an inspiration for our art project about symmetry. We alternated cutting, folding and painting watercolor paper to create our own symmetrical monarch butterfly. We also practiced a new sound – “ou” as cloud, mound and sound.

Our Recent Adventures

  • Let’s Chat with Artists: Aline Bloch
  • Virtual Preschool – Music
  • Virtual Preschool: Jack & Beanstalk
  • Virtual Preschool: Space
  • Virtual Preschool: Worms and Snails

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