Joan Miro and his "Open Space"

It has been a great transition back to school after a long winter break! It has been so nice to see all of our friends and I swear everyone has gotten taller! As you can see, I have decided to change the titles of my blog posts.  The blog will still post every Friday but I prefer a more exciting title to spice things up a bit!  

This week the children were introduced to a new artist of the month, Joan Miro (his first name is pronounced like "Juan").  Joan Miro was a artist from Spain who lived to be 100 years old! In 1961, Joan Miro created a series of paintings titled, Bleu I, Bleu II and Bleu III.  The children compared the similarities and differences in the series of paintings and used Bleu II to recreate his work.  The children learned that, unlike our previous artist of the month, Van gogh, Miro liked "open space" in his work.  Before beginning their work, the children discovered that Joan Miro used 12 dots in his painting including small, medium and big dots all in a row.  Just about all of the paintings are up on the bulletin board for you to take a look at! This time I made sure to write names on the front of each masterpiece so you can easily find your child's artwork!

Next week, we will begin to transform the classroom into a winter wonderland as we begin our winter animal studies.  We will be using vocabulary such as "migrate," "hibernate" and "adapt."  Listen for your child to use these key words at home!

Important Dates and Reminders:

January 18: SEE closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day
February 1: February tuition due
February 15: SEE closed in observance of President's Day
March 1: March Tuiton Due
April 1: April Tuition Due
April 18-22: SEE closed for Spring Break

Pictures from this week:

Our new "Small World" area

A Joan Miro in progress

The making of a puffy paint snowman

Exploring life size animal foot prints

Counting the dots in Joan Miro's Bleu II

I hope everyone has a great weekend! We'll see you on Monday!

Joanna