Improve your ability to use words effectively and increase reading comprehension.
For those of you who celebrate Christmas, you may be familiar with advent calendars. For each day of the month, advent calendars have a new surprise that you reveal day by day. It could be candy, small gifts, or in this case, a new activity that you can do while …
Fold and decorate bookmark corners! Make your favorite characters, cute animals, or a character from a specific book you’re reading! These cute and original bookmarks will get you excited to start reading! This project is one of the virtual literacy through art classes hosted on Facebook Live from 1:30-2pm every …
Julie Shaffer is a docent at Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. This is her second semester volunteering with Art Sphere. She loves yoga, artisan ice cream, post-modern fiction, and art history. Julie wants to cultivate a love and appreciation of art in young children. At Fishtown Recreation Center, we celebrated …
Photo by: Ylanite Koppens Your Destination: Inspired by the Peter Reynolds book, “The Dot,” create a dot masterpiece by gluing pre-cut circles in various sizes and colors onto paper. You can enjoy a read-aloud version of the book here! Travel Kit: White paper, colored paper in a variety of colors, …
Kindergarten at Fishtown Recreation Center added to the previously created Alphabet pages. This group has already learned all their letters during their Kindergarten year and will be entering 1st grade this fall. Word association was much more successful and easier for them (even though it’s never too early to start …
Pre-K at Fishtown Rec Center gathered around to review the letters of the alphabet. They were able to recognize and recite each letter, but they were challenged to name something that began with that letter. This proves to be a more difficult activity. Once we went over a few examples, …
Lesson To recite a story with an important moral and have children either recreate this story or make a similar on that follow the same themes. Recommended Ages Preschool to early elementary Prep Choose a story with an important lesson at the end. For this example, Lowanu the Wise Woman …
Lesson Use stamps for printmaking. Recommended Ages Elementary Vocabulary Brayer – printing tool, used to roll out ink Ink – colored liquid used to write or draw with Screen Printing – printing process, using a stencil process on a silk/nylon porous screen and pushing ink through the openings Squeegee – …
