Parksdale Village II

Greetings everyone,

Today the children each made their own collages about what they love the most.  They were able to use a large piece of cardboard , glue and scissors to cut out pictures from magazines. As you can see from the photos below, they love so many different things.  WOW!!!  I myself made one as well to show the kids what I love the most.  I had everyone share their collages with each other so that we could learn more about one another.  Hope you enjoy making your own...it really is a great way to get the children to open up about themselves.  Till next time...happy teaching & learning!

 

 

Sunrise Villa

Hello everyone!!!

The past few weeks at Sunrise Villa have been a blast!  The children are having a great time with their arts and crafts...it just seems that when one holiday is over, another one is right around the corner to take its place.  For Easter, the kids crafted cut out eggs which they painted and took home to mom and dad.  We also made a do it yourself bath soak for Mother’s Day which they put in their own hand made gift boxes and covered them with glitter!  The project was complete when they made a beautiful card for their mom to go with it.  They can’t wait for the next fun project which brings us to Father's Day!

Parksdale Village II

Hi Everyone!

Please enjoy the photos below of some of the most amazing artwork in Madera, CA...brought to you by the artistic hands of the children who reside at Parksdale Village II.  I hope that all our beautiful mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day.  Cheers!!!

 

 

Cottonwood Creek

Hello to one and all!

These past couple of weeks have been super busy!  We have been busy little bees!!!  We've worked on several art projects and I tried my best to explain abstract art.  The children used chalk and water in order to make the chalk stick/stay on the paper and not rub off.  It really looks nice on construction paper.  For the most part the kids understand the concept and made the wall look really nice!  After that project we then went straight into our Mother's Day project that we had started a whole week before...just because it was going to be quite a bit of work.  We started with a plain foam covered notebook and we worked on this "Memory Book" for mom diligently.  I printed a very cute poem (English & Spanish) for the kids to add to the book.  I also had them leave their hand print on the page next to the poem.  Cute right?  The little kids love it because they got to paint their hands.  They also made an award for "best mom" that they then glued onto the book.  We then got to the part that took us a couple of days.  We did our best interpretation of a pop up card for mom.  I used glittery foam paper and had the kids color flowers and I printed out something nice to go with the flowers.  It was challenging getting 2nd and 3rd grade boys to get pumped up about coloring and talking about flowers but when the pop up idea popped into my brain, I thought this might just do the trick.  Guess what, it did...the kids thought it was COOL!

One of the last things the kids added to the memory book was a picture and they had to make it look pretty with little letters and icons.  Lastly I had them write a letter to mom explaining how much she means to them.  We then took tissue paper and wrapped them up very carefully and added a pretty ribbon to finish them off.  The kids said their moms loved them!  This week we have been playing outside but since the weather warmed up so suddenly yesterday, we colored inside and wrote nice things to our troops using appreciation coloring pages.  I decided it would be a nice idea to have them color the pages and then send them out in time for Memorial Day.  The kids really enjoyed thanking our service men and woman!  Some of them wrote, "you are cool!" Or "you are awesome!"  I hope maybe more of the other after school sites would do the same!  It's something small we can do for the troops overseas that can brighten up their day.  It's pretty simple, you can go online and there are plenty of sites that are dedicated to sending coloring pages or messages from kids at schools to our troops over seas.  Others websites send the drawings with care packages so when they get opened, they bring smiles to their faces!  I hope other coordinators would be encouraged to do the same!  Thanks everyone!!!

 

 

Sand Creek

Hello everyone!

April was an amazing month here at Sand Creek...these kids have had so much fun creating arts & crafts, getting involved in various learning activities and getting involved with recycling.  Gotta take care of our precious resources people!  Now onto our Easter stuff.  The children created their own Easter baskets using newspaper, they decorated them using different colored paints and tissue paper...they were so excited to do this project.  We celebrated Easter by having an egg hunt as well as eating some delicious desserts like cupcakes and we also made some bananas splits.  WOW!!!, we better get our exercise on.  We want to extend a big "Thank you" to Self-Help Enterprises for supporting us and allowing us to have so much fun.  We are currently working on our latest and greatest project for the upcoming Mother's Day...we're making vases using mayonnaise jars and flowers as well as water bottles and egg cartons.  Hope everyone enjoys the next coming months and we wish every mother a happy and blessed "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY."  Till next time...

 

 

Parksdale II

Hello Everyone!

We have been super busy here at Parksdale Village II.  What better way to enjoy our sunny day than to do some cardiovascular exercise.  Today we got our dance on by dancing to "Dance 3."  All you have to do is follow the directions on the TV, it's that simple.  It shows you step by step and when to take those crucial breaks in between the video.

Next we worked on some Earth day projects that focused on our community, specifically the environment.  The environment is where we all live and where we all have a mutual interest...it is the one thing we all share.  Some resources we all use from the environment is water, air, land (soil)...we all need to do our part to be better stewards of the environment for our current and future generations.

Last but not least, Happy Easter everyone from Parksdale Village II. This past Friday as you can see was nice and sunny.  The children enjoyed an Easter egg hunt with lots of candy...remember boys and girls, brush those teeth.  The kid's helped me put candies inside the eggs then I carefully hid them throughout the grass.  Everyone had a blast on our Easter Egg Hunt.  Enjoy the photos below.

 

 

Lincoln Plaza

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

It's been a while but finally, all our projects are done and we were ready for Easter. Yay!!!  These kids have worked so hard on their projects that I believe they have earned a movie night next Friday with popcorn and cookies.  Starting this week they will be back at school making sure they get good grades and finishing all of their homework.  Next holiday is Mother's Day!...some of the children already have ideas on what they would like to do for their Mamas on their special day.  Enjoy the wonderful art projects below.