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Artree: online preschool

  • About Artree Preschool
    • Hours & Prices
    • About the Teachers
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    • More art ideas
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  • Virtual Preschool: Jack & Beanstalk
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What We Are Up To Right Now

Flowers and plants grow tall in the sprint – and especially if the plant is a magic giant beanstalk! We read Jack and the Beanstalk, and talked about what it would be like if we really had one such magic bean. For now we don’t, but we have a simple trick to see how a regular bean grows tall. We also practiced our fine motor skills with scissors, some scrap paper and glue, and created a colorful collage of a garden.
Flowers look beautiful in a vase, and they also work great as an art tool in place of brushes. We picked a few dandelions and grasses, dipped them in acrylic paint, and stamped onto watercolor paper to create abstract paintings. Our paintings were made up of both random shapes as well as patterns. Speaking of, we once again pulled out plastic bugs and caterpillars, and practiced math through pattern recognition and creation. We also learnt to follow our nose and read a story about a bunny who did just that!
Nature, gardens, flowers – and Claude Monet. We are thrilled to introduce the famous French painter (and a passionate horticulturist) and his impressionist works, such as the Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies. This 122-year-old painting served as an inspiration for our art piece, using chalk pastels and acrylic paint. So beautiful! We also added the sound “th” into our soundbook, and practiced with words such as this, that, then, three or cloth.
We read one of our favorite shine-a-light books, Secrets of the Vegetable Garden, and learnt a lot about plants and vegetables, and how to grow them. (There are many shine-a-light books on Amazon and you’ll need just a small flashlight to read them.) Since we still had some nice tulips from the bouquet we got earlier, we used one to explore the different parts of flowers. We also drew it using sharpies and watercolors, and labeled each part. If you don’t have tulips, no worries! Dandelions, daisies or buttercups will work just as well.
We got ourselves a bouquet of tulips and learned more about how plants grow. Since bugs are a key part of the plant growing process, we decided to make use of them in our math segment, too. Not live ones, though! They’d crawl and fly away before we had a chance to sort them by shape or color or count them. Ours were plastic and perfectly still. And speaking of still life, the tulip bouquet provided the perfect inspiration for today’s art, with the help of sharpies and chalk pastels.
Nothing says Spring like a blooming garden, bright green grass and tree leaves, and small carrots, radishes and strawberries aaaaalmost ready pluck out and eat 🌼🌸🌹🌱 In this lesson we discovered what hides in our garden and explored various plants and bugs. We pulled out oil pastels and drew beautiful colorful flowers, inspired by our garden. We also added to our sound book – the sound sh, as in sheep or wish.

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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