Pee Wee Picaso - Celebrating The Creative Spirit of the 3-5 Year Old

The Pee Wee Picasso Program meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:45 until noon during the traditional school year. This unique program has been designed to encourage the young artists (ages 3-5) to embrace their creative and dramatic selves.

Here at the Art Center, we believe that learning should be fun. We are here to promote original thinking while encouraging artistic expression.

Maggie - Age 3
The Pee Wee Picaso program embraces the following subjects:
Visual Arts: This includes painting, sketching, sculpting, collaging and adventurous mixed media. A complete immersion into the wonderful world of "creating beautiful images".
Musical Arts: Students will create their own percussion instruments, explore rhythm, singing, marching bands and experiment with a number of musical tools and instruments. A professional guitarist joins us regularly for even more musical enjoyment.
Performing Arts: Students will enjoy fantasy games which include inventing characters, songs and creating various scenarios using creative props. The young artist will also create their own puppets and produce shows, and learn to express themselves through interactive drama.
Botanical Arts: All the children will enjoy the process of growing their own garden. They will plant seeds for both flowers and vegetables and learn to care and nurture their very own little gardens. Flowers will be pressed and used for art and vegetables will be eaten at snack - Yummy!!

Through the unique curriculum of our ART Based program, a natural introduction to academic skills occurs:

Language Arts

Sounds & Syllables:

Sutdents will sing songs, learn rhymes and play games that focus on sounds and syllables.

Word Recognition:

Students will learn letter sounds - analyzed in strings of separate words, comprised of sequnces of syllables which will be enjoyed through rhythm and movement.

Alphabet:

Students will learn the alphabet songs and create an "alphabet book" of their art.

Spanish & French:

Foreign languages are introduced through song, art, movement and games. New words will be sent home every week to help the parents learn a new language along with their child.

Math Concepts

Counting:

Counting is learned through rhythm, music and dancing activities.

Measuring:

Measuring is learned as a natural consequence of explosure to botanical and visual arts.

Calendars:

Students create their own calendars which introduce them to days, months, and years. Students will learn about telling time when they make their own clocks.

We firmly believe that being creative is not a talent confined to just one of the arts. Neither is it an elite talent, but somethign that everyone exercises to one degree or another. Because of our 1:5 teacher/student ratio, questions and curiosity from our budding artists are always encouraged.

Our next program commences of September 3, 2008. This program has limited space and requires early registration. Tuition for the 2008-2009 school year is $285/month. There is an annual non-refundable material fee of $100.

For the safety of your child all staff members have been fingerprinted with a complete background check. Since we are an art and music school, the Children's Createve Art Center is licenses as an Art Center.

Join us on Parent Night, August 24th from 7:00 -8:30 p.m. to learn more about our Pee Wee Picaso program.

 

 

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