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Students at Cione Recreation Center wasted no time to start using their brand new art materials given to them from Art Sphere Inc. Their gift bags included: markers, colored pencils, crayons, glue, brushes and watercolor paints. One student noted how excited they were to be able to decide how they …
Reading is always more fun if you can sing the book! We had a lot of fun with our “Starry Night” lesson at Fishtown Recreation this semester. The students learned about Van Gogh’s famous painting and made their own interpretations. For the music portion of the class, I did a …
Polar bears and snowflakes at Towey. This week we colored snowflakes and created polar bears. The project gave the children a chance to create their very own polar bear and make him or her anyway they chose. It was cool seeing the imagination shine through with this project. We had …
Music Technology for Pre-Schoolers Goals and Objectives: Students will be introduced to, as well as have an opportunity interact and make music with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). I taught this lesson to a small class of students at the Fishtown Library. Then I introduced the class to a free …
Continuing with the fall theme at Towey, This week’s lesson was all about teaching the student how to draw a tree on a grassy field with a blue sky and animals by breaking down each section with basic shapes. We started off by having them draw two giant “C’s” with …
Our students at Southwark have been asking to make slime since day 1. We decided it would be a fun experiment to do since it is near the end of our semester, and many of our students have never had the opportunity to make it. We did a lot of …
This week at Fishtown Recreation Center, we continued with our oil pastel projects by adding color to their original designs created last week. The students learned about warm and cool palettes and we discussed how each palette evoked certain images or feelings. For example, warm colors like red, orange and …
For this week’s class, at Penn Treaty, we wanted the students to do a fun & unique project based around the fall season. We had them design their own leaf cutouts to be placed on a tree and also had them create some stencil designs on craft paper with a …
