Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Author Study Ideas
Leslie Patriceilli (baby faces sort)
Mo Willems
Lucy Cousins (Maisy)
Lois Elhert (collage)
Sandra Boynton
Kevin Heneks (Kitten's First Full Moon, Old Bear, Little White Rabbit)
Rosemary Wells (Max and Ruby)
P.D. Eastman
Shel Silverstien
Eric Hill
Busy ... series by John Schindel
Jack Ezra Keats
Monday, February 18, 2013
Books about Cooking
Cooking:
The Little Red Hen (various versions, I like Rebecca Emberly)
Pete's a Pizza by William Stief
Pancakes! Pancakes! by Eric Carle
Cooking with the Cat
Grandpa and Me by Karen Katz
ABC of Cookies
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
Fancy Nancy: Delectable Cupcakes by Jane O'Connor
Fancy Nancy:Tea Parties by Jane O'Connor
Amelia Bedelia Bakes Off
Curious George Makes Pancakes by HA Rey
Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly
Food:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
If You Give a Dog a Donut
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert
Dragons Love Tacos
Spicy Hot Colors
Bread and Jam for Francis
Ruby's Tea for Two by Rosemary Wells
Counting Peas by Rosemary Wells
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
Blueberries for Sal
Bee-Bim Bop!
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert
Strega Nona by Tomi
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Maisy Grows a Garden by Lucy Cousins (Fed 2013)
I Like Vegetables
Our list of apple titles.
Our list of pumpkin titles.
Eating:
Today is Mondayby Eric Carle
Party in My Tummy(Yo Gabba Gabba)
Bear Wants More
Gregory, The Terrible Eater
Feast for Ten
Max's Breakfast by Rosemary Wells
Little Pea
For Really Little Ones:
Mealtime by Roger Priddy
Stratch and Sniff Food by DK
Baby Food by Margaret Miller
Baby's First Food by Hinkler (Publisher)
The Little Red Hen (various versions, I like Rebecca Emberly)
Pete's a Pizza by William Stief
Pancakes! Pancakes! by Eric Carle
Cooking with the Cat
Grandpa and Me by Karen Katz
ABC of Cookies
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
Fancy Nancy: Delectable Cupcakes by Jane O'Connor
Fancy Nancy:Tea Parties by Jane O'Connor
Amelia Bedelia Bakes Off
Curious George Makes Pancakes by HA Rey
Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly
Food:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
If You Give a Dog a Donut
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert
Dragons Love Tacos
Spicy Hot Colors
Bread and Jam for Francis
Ruby's Tea for Two by Rosemary Wells
Counting Peas by Rosemary Wells
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
Blueberries for Sal
Bee-Bim Bop!
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert
Strega Nona by Tomi
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Maisy Grows a Garden by Lucy Cousins (Fed 2013)
I Like Vegetables
Our list of apple titles.
Our list of pumpkin titles.
Eating:
Today is Mondayby Eric Carle
Party in My Tummy(Yo Gabba Gabba)
Bear Wants More
Gregory, The Terrible Eater
Feast for Ten
Max's Breakfast by Rosemary Wells
Little Pea
For Really Little Ones:
Mealtime by Roger Priddy
Stratch and Sniff Food by DK
Baby Food by Margaret Miller
Baby's First Food by Hinkler (Publisher)
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Eric Carle!
I wrote up what we did for our two Eric Carle sessions to post on my blog, so why not post it here, too!
Session 1:
Eric Carle stories playing on YouTube during free play.
The kids had a Very Hungry Caterpillar snack (apples, pears, strawberries, and oranges) while I read them the book.
During circle time I sang Today is Monday.
We closed circle with the kids picking a book and reading it with an adult.
Our art project was exploring different mediums in one color (crayong, oil pastel, colored pencil, marker), then painting over it in variety of colors.
Take home was "I feel grouchy when" lady bugs. (Didn't have time to read the book)
Session 2:
During snack, I read three Eric Carle books: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?; The Man Who Painted a Blue Horse; and Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
Quickly went into the scavenger hunt game because the kids were taking down the animals. (For this game I just color copied the last page of Brown Bear and hid them around the house). The kids colored in the pictures on a sheet as they found them.
During free play, we sang Old McDonald with a basket of animal stuffed animals I'd gathered.
Our art project was tearing and gluing colored tissue, then using unconventional materials (foam, tubes, bubble wrap, stamper brushes, roller brush, styrofoam balls, gift wrap bows) to paint the tissue.
Take home activity color or paint wooden bears and butterflies and make into fridge magnets.
The only activity from session 2 we didn't get to was to read and play From Head to Toe.
Session 1:
Eric Carle stories playing on YouTube during free play.
The kids had a Very Hungry Caterpillar snack (apples, pears, strawberries, and oranges) while I read them the book.
During circle time I sang Today is Monday.
We closed circle with the kids picking a book and reading it with an adult.
Our art project was exploring different mediums in one color (crayong, oil pastel, colored pencil, marker), then painting over it in variety of colors.
Take home was "I feel grouchy when" lady bugs. (Didn't have time to read the book)
Session 2:
During snack, I read three Eric Carle books: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?; The Man Who Painted a Blue Horse; and Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
Quickly went into the scavenger hunt game because the kids were taking down the animals. (For this game I just color copied the last page of Brown Bear and hid them around the house). The kids colored in the pictures on a sheet as they found them.
During free play, we sang Old McDonald with a basket of animal stuffed animals I'd gathered.
Our art project was tearing and gluing colored tissue, then using unconventional materials (foam, tubes, bubble wrap, stamper brushes, roller brush, styrofoam balls, gift wrap bows) to paint the tissue.
Take home activity color or paint wooden bears and butterflies and make into fridge magnets.
The only activity from session 2 we didn't get to was to read and play From Head to Toe.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Children and art, fundamentals of development (by Rachel)
Here's Rachel's wonderful post I'd ask her to write for us about child art development. We'll get some pics in there soon!
Children and art, fundamentals of development
How children progress
in Art making through stages.
In my former life I was an Art teacher,
part of my education was learning how art and development start out
one in the same and the different stages children go through –
pretty critical in designing appropriate curriculum per age/grade.
Being that I worked with children starting in kindergarten I didn't
see much of the earliest stages of art making. It's been really fun
watching Imogene go through this artistic development and seeing
first hand how she's progressed.
“Art” is a huge part of development
in humans. Studies have shown and concluded that all humans, no
matter what part of the world they live in or their socioeconomic
status go through the same developmental stages in drawing, this
happens to start with mark making. Some of this is a factor of fine
motor skill ability and cognitive changes that happen in the brain as
a child understands they can manipulate their environment. Now, an
individual with a developmental delay may stay in the same “art
stage” that coincides with their cognitive functioning abilities
and never move on to the next step. Each stage happens naturally and
without any kind of adult intervention. The ages are really really
general and I only put them in as a generalized average. A 4 or 5
year old could be in the “scribble” stage and still progress.
There are about 6 stages of “artistic”development children go
through from ages 18 months through ages 15/16.
The scribble stage
(approx 18 months- age 3)
Generally, although each child is
different, at around 18 months children start to become interested in
“making marks” they recognize when they use a tool (crayon,
marker, bath soap, paint, anything really) it makes a mark. This
isn't about making anything in particular just connecting cause and
effect. This goes on for about 6 months (again each child is an
individual.) You will typically see a variety of marks- many look
like scribbles, some look like dots. Children will do this anywhere,
as it is about experimentation, “does the crayon also work on the
wall? My shirt? The dog? The fridge?” Imogene at about 13 months
old liked to finger paint on the kitchen floor :-) I watch a friends
almost two year old from time to time and I remember him being
enthralled with hitting a painted maraca on the side of my
dishwasher. When I went over to stop him, I saw a sprinkling of red
dots from the paint rubbing off onto the metal of the dishwasher.
Needless to say, any object can be used! The marks/scribbles they
make will change over time. Eventually you can observe more organized
“Scribbles” and a child may start to name them and assign meaning
to them. The first recognizable shape children make is called a
mandala (a circle with an x through it) The first time I can remember
Imogene naming a scribble was when one of her preschool teachers was
pregnant and Imogene identified a little scribbled circle as “Baby
Saylor.” Lines will go back and forth or up and down and may curve
a little- children will also stop coloring off the paper and may try
to “imitate” drawings made by someone else (for example if you
are coloring with your child they may attempt to copy you or color
over your drawing)
Preschematic
(symbols/stories) stage (approx ages 3-4.5)
Around age 3ish children
will start to become more representational. The first recognizable
thing they draw is a person – I call them tadpoles or sperm because
they start with a circle which typically has a face in the middle and
two lines off the bottom as “legs” I had many many many 5 year
olds in my kindergarten classes who still drew people that way.
Children will develop other recognizable symbols- a house- a cat,
things that are important to them or that they want to tell a story
about-this can become involved and complex- working out issues they
have with drawings. This can help them resolve problems and feel
better.
Schematic stage (approx
age 4-6)
Children eventually come up
with a “set” of symbols and use them very orderly, the symbols
are composed in the drawing with purpose. There is a baseline and all
object sit on that line, usually this is the ground shown as a green
line on the bottom of the picture. All other symbols are drawn over
that green line. There will also be a blue strip (for sky) and a sun
at the top. This style is repeated endlessly in drawing after
drawing. Children will also make objects bigger and out of
proportion, for example when drawing a family portrait, they may draw
themselves very large and everyone else small, as they consider
themselves most important. Children continue to use drawing as a way
to work out issues or tell a story about themselves.
Ok, so I’m going stop here
as non of our kids are older than 6 and most likely aren't showing
any developmental signs past the schematic stage. I hope this was
informational and that you have fun identifying some of the things
your child is doing! Please feel free to post/ask any questions. I
did try to be very clear although I often forget not everyone is
familiar with art education :-)
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