At Penn Treaty, we started off today’s lesson with giving each student a piece of water based clay and going into great detail on the history of how this material was being utilized. We talked about how clay is a form of a rock or a mud stone. Next, we …
Project: Let your students embrace their inner rock stars through this fun activity when they get to cut out and design their own styrofoam guitar. This project is suitable for elementary schoolers, and it’s a great way to teach kids about the guitar as well as some history about rock …
This week at the Lunchtime Literacy Session at Fishtown Community Library, our young friends practiced alphabet recognition with some fun hands-on activities — learning the sign language alphabet and then painting their names in a pointillism style. Using Our Hands for ASL. We introduced the American Sign Language to our …
We traveled under the sea during our Lunchtime Literacy Through Art and Music class at the Fishtown Community Library. After reading some ocean themed children’s books together our group made their own ocean scenes. Parents and guardians helped the kids glue paper silhouettes of fish, whales and octopuses to blue …
This week with the preschoolers at Fishtown Recreation Center we read The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. This colorful picture book tells the story of Mr. Plumbean who lives on a “neat street” in a neighborhood where all of the houses look the same. After a seagull drops …
I have been introducing the Pre-School class at Fishtown Recreation to the wonderful world of percussion. I started off by exposing the class to a variety of African percussion instruments including: Djembe, gourd rattles, kashishi (basket shakers), and Donno (talking drum). I first explained what each instrument is traditionally made …
Last week at Towey Rec Center, we gave out pencils with a piece of paper attached to it with a little positive quote or affirmation. Some examples: “Nothing worth having is easy” “Anything is possible” “Hard work pays off” “Be the change you want to see in the world”
