Our Creative Arts Preschool class has been happily emerged in wonderful and challenging artistic and dramatic endeavours this fall. Due to the intimate and cozy nature of a smaller class, we have been able to complete complicated projects with many steps. We have used many classic children's books like Eric Carle's The Hungary Caterpillar, and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild things Are. For the school play about World Stories we used a book about Anansi, an African folk character. We designed clay spiders, and created a colourful oil pastel drawing of Anansi. Our drama component for that week consisted of spider songs, and poems complete with mini-spider rings to wear. Some of our other projects have included leaf prints, watercolour paintings, sculpted bowls with fruit, and chalk pastel work. In drama we have re-told our stories using props, poems, music, and creative movement. We also use games. One example was a game where the children would run to place their feet on coloured pieces of felt when they given a colour to find. Our Halloween book "The Big Pumpkin", was acted out with full costume and speaking parts for all. The children have all become close and also enjoy the free play time at the beginning of class. Thanks to the internet we have even been able to play some stories online and our most recent book, "Who I Be", had a lovely CD with music to accompany it. We look forward to many more weeks of this spirited and friendly group.
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