Blossom Nursery Art Class Newsletter November 2011 Dear Parents,
Then
Please let me introduce myself: my name is Julie Dalloz and I am the Art
Teacher
in
both
Blossom
Nursery and Blossom Village for the
toddlers
and
preschool
children. Every two months, I would like to give you an overview of what kind of creativity your child is exposed to
during
my
specialized
art
classes. Every week, you will find his/her artwork in the Smartbook with an explanation of what we
we
created
our
own
classroom signs, painting on an oval canvas and decorating with glitter and the photos of our faces. That allowed us to learn how to work together as a team and how to share our ideas. Next,
we
the
theme
birth
of
Picasso
paintings : “The Dove of peace”
with
a
guitar”
technique with different papers and
artwork,
using
on
the
newspapers
same
fabrics,
looking at the different shapes that we could find in (see below).
below).
And for the anecdote, when I asked Anthony in the Blue Birds class if he had ever heard of Picasso, he answered: “No, I don’ t know Picasso but I know Spider
Curriculum and Skygarden:
The 5 senses
During the first topic “Welcome to Blossom”, we explored different textured papers with our funky paper collage, using crepe and tissue paper, foil, lace, colourful cardboard paper...etc.
stickers,
and
British
2.
glitter,
drawing some graphic lines (see
created some art pieces inspired
Welcome to Blossom
the
working
In September and October, we
1.
with
children
Man!!!”. So cute!
the
getting
the concept of sharing, with two
eye out for them!
of
by
inspired by two of his famous
preschoolers. We used the collage
group work so please do keep an
topics
Afterwards, we celebrated the
“Being a nice person” by working on
be hung up in the nursery if it is a
the
of that eerie landscape.
with the toddlers and “Punchinello
covered
have been doing or the artwork will
by
and the children were very proud
It was actually not an easy task for everyone to share our art pieces! We next created a masterpiece for Halloween where all the classes from
both
Blossom
branches
participated. It was a great fun
The week after, for the occasion of the World Tolerance Day and the Unicef Children’ s Day, we replicated a masterpiece inspired by the artist Richard Long with his painting “Mud Handprints”. Printing our hands all together (toddlers and preschoolers) was a way to encourage
fraternity,
respect
between
tolerance
The next class (about “Hearing”)
and
consisted of listening to some
children and showing them how we
all
the
music while painting. When the
are all different but equal (see
music stopped, the children had to
right).
stop painting. They had great fun discovering
the
French
multi
instrumentalist and singer Mathieu Chedid. ________________________________________________________________
Come and have a look at our exciting new Art project at Blossom Nursery! now
painting
the
garden
wall
(facing Lavender’s classroom, just beyond the gym). Each class will soon have its own garden lined with a huge mural (27m2) about nature where
its
own
flower
will
be
represented. Thousands of dots, patterns, mirrors and beads make up the mural and it is up to you and your children to seek different hidden shapes! How many can you see? Where is the sunflower? The buttercups? The poppy?!!! You are all invited to the official At
Blossom,
we
are
always
progressing and developing! As an artist and a wall designer, I am
unveiling of the wall on December 8th
on
the
occasion
of
the
Christmas Concert!
To find out more about my work, please have a look at my website: www.artandj.com
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Innovation and creativity: the benefits of teaching art to children… Art
be
Innovation and originality all occur
can
creative and innovative because it
teaches
children
when children explore art. And
scientific
values
creative
to
solve
problem
a
complex
without
the
these skills help them to learn to
ability to think creatively and be
form
innovative?
promote
problems. As a matter of fact, how
express
and
child
provides a safe venue in which to and
abilities
a
ideas.
mental
images
to
solve