A Very Exciting Year in Morning Art School

We have had a very exciting year in Morning Art School covering a wide range of themes in our creative curriculum. Some of the themes we have explored include buildings, occupations, nursery rhymes, fish, plants, famous artists and more! We’ve taken field trips to the library, the fire department as it was under construction and the Scott garden to deepen our learning experiences and bring meaning to the work we are creating.

These little ones are totally open to playing, creating, exploring and most of all they are completely motivated by fun. It’s contagious—sharing our passion of art and creativity with our youngest artists brings so much joy! Finding new ways to inspire their creativity can have surprising results. A cardboard box can be pretty exciting when creativity transforms it into a spaceship. And the inspiration is reciprocal—the fun we had with the spaceship could motivate us to develop a whole curriculum on space.

We’ve incorporated a mini-Core Values statement into Morning Art School—Be Safe, Be Kind, Be Clean. It’s a chant that has begun to reverberate in many little voices each morning and could be considered the basic foundation to our Core Values in After School: Integrity, Empowerment, Safe Space, Social Responsibility, Empathy and Compassion, Creativity, Hard Work, Active Engagement, Personal Responsibility. In the end it all boils down to Be Kind, Be Safe, Be Clean. There’s always something new to share in Morning Art School and each day we learn as much from our little artists as they learn from us.