December Art & Music
Music & Art with Rosie
Primary Class
asks for the Magic Jumping Bean story every week!
Discovery
explores hand drums in the hallway. We spin them and then listen to the sounds they make as they wind down and hit the floor. So fun!
Discovery
painted night skies and baby owls after the book Owl Babies by Martin Wadell. I always let the students know that great artists often say they wish they could forget everything they knew and paint like children again.
Adventure
worked in clay this month including creating houses from clay slabs, and using scratch and attach techniques. It was a challenging project and they did great work.
Cultural Arts with Audra
In Cultural Arts, we are studying arts and culture from around the world. Each month(ish) we spend time visiting different countries, and learning about the culture through music and art.
In September we learned about Zimbabwe.
We learned about Shona Culture, sang welcome songs in the language Shona, read fables from Zimbabwe and drew illustrations for the story! Explorer learned about instruments from Zimbabwe and played the percussion parts to our welcome song Nika Ina Vene
In October we learned about Mexico!
We celebrated through music by learning the traditional dance to La Raspa, you may recognize the music and dance as the Mexican Hat Dance! We also sang the song De Colores in Spanish singing about all the beautiful colors in spring.
We learned about art culture in Mexico by focusing on Frida Kahlo. We learned about her life and her art! After studying her style we created our own self portraits in the style of Frida’s self portraits.
✨ Community Happenings
- Dec 5: Holiday Tree Lighting in downtown Sequim 5-6:30pm
- Dec 6: Make snowflakes at Dungeness River Nature Center
- Dec 6: Mikey the Rad Scientist - Live Music and Science Fun for Kids
- Dec 5-7: The Nutcracker Ballet at Field Arts and Events Hall
- Dec 12: Candle making at Dungeness River Nature Center
🎧 Teacher Podcast Suggestions
- The Hidden Brain - Parents: Keep Out
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tWUpO2lesLNnQ90MX0E8R?si=oESdDPshQCmSLSaHDkbt3g
- Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?i=1000738174177
📰 Education Articles
- Boosting Preschool Students’ Language Skills Through Art and Nature
- https://www.edutopia.org/article/language-acquisition-art-nature-preschool
- For young children, finger-counting helps develop more abstract skills, study finds
- https://phys.org/news/2025-11-young-children-finger-abstract-skills.html
Calendar
You can always check out our online calendar HERE
Yearlings SoundWaves every Tuesday 3-4:30pm
Fall session dates: Dec 9
Old Hands SoundWaves every Thursday 3-4:45pm
Fall session dates:
Dec 11
- Dec 10 Wednesday- Winter Concert, 6:30pm @ Peninsula College Little Theater K-6
- Dec 19 - Poetry Fest, Adventure and Explorer Classes
- Dec 22- Jan 2 - Winter Break
- January 16 - No School Primary ONLY, Teacher Work Day
- Jan 19 - No School MLK Jr. Day
- Jan 27 - 29 - No School Primary ONLY, Conferences
