Feburary Little Hands Art Group

This was our first meeting of 2010 and we had the new art program to use...
As I posted in an earlier post, I managed to find the Level 3 module of the Atelier Art program for $5... this was a real find for us...so today was our first time to use it...

I really like it... It is easy for us and for the kids... I just preview the video to see what items are needed for the class, gather them together, pop i n the DVD and the on TV instructor explains the lesson, teaches the method and it flows smoothly...

Today's class was on "SHAPE"... The kids were able to make pictures involving shape, by "tearing" paper with their fingers and gluing them into the "shape" of the scene they desired...The theme was "PENGUINS" (which was great since it went right along with our study of Antarctica)...
Here's some photos of their work...


                                                                        THE GIRL'S TABLE

                                                                               THE BOY'S TABLE


A LITTLE PENGUIN ON AN ICE SHELF



OUR GROUP WITH THEIR FINISHED MASTERPIECES
 For our music / composer study that we have been adding to Little Hands, we watched a video from the "How Things Work" series called "Musical Instruments" which went through a make-believe place called Mammoth Island and described how musical instruments work and how they are related to things in nature... (it's based on the book by David McCauley)...
It was a good video and a great addition to the class...