After School Classes
Our academy goes beyond after school child-care and simply extends your child's learning experience with extra-curricular classes that incorporate playtime. Cost is $85.00 a week in addition to normal tuition. Parents must supply their child with a snack. Latest pick-up time is 6:00 pm.
Early Learning Art Classes
Early learners use art as a sensory exploration tool. They enjoy seeing a blob of colored paint expand across a page, and thrill at the feeling of a crayon moving across paper. Visual and tactile exploration of contrasting materials is how very young children build knowledge of the world around them.
Through making art young learners make their first decisions and conduct self-evaluations. This is very important as it speeds up cognitive development and trains the mind for analytical reasoning. A very young child does this by first exploring their tools, choosing their media, and then arranging the objects. While they do this young learners are deciding how quickly or how slowly they will finish their project, which has to them evolved into an exploration in control. Lastly, they are learning how they themselves evaluate their creation. Young Learners evaluate their creation based upon two things: what they like and whether other people are pleased.
So that soupy sourcream-koolaid-chocolate-cake-guacamole puddle you found on your kitchen walls, cabinets, and floors… that was your child’s first attempt at artistic expression. Wasn't it AMAZING?
No worries, parents. You'll find it’s much easier to appreciate your budding Picasso's creations when we clean up the mess here at the academy!
Ages 3 - 5 Art Classes
At this stage your child’s cognitive development has broadened beyond mimicking and analyzing. Making art now builds their self-esteem by expanding their control, letting them express what they are thinking and feeling. In academic settings young children participate in art activities with their peers, and the feedback they give each other helps them learn to accept criticism and praise as a natural social dynamic. At Rainbow Hoots Academy our small group art activities with positive reinforcements allows children to practice important social skills like taking turns, sharing, and negotiating for materials.
At ages 3 - 5 art-making activities begin to involve the use of symbols, representing real objects, events, and feelings. Mommy's hair on a sunny day, the puppy who died, Sponge Bob. Fine motor skills such as drawing allows young children to symbolize what they know. Symbology is a needed outlet for children whose vocabulary, written, or verbal skills may be limited. The early use of symbology in art is very important because it reinforces the foundation for a child's later use of vocabulary, whether verbal or written.
Parent/child projects: http://artworkinparis.tripod.com/index-2.html
Best Connections for Teachers and Parents: http://mothergoose.com/
