Preschool Plus Music and Arts Enrichment

“Preschool Plus” is an optional new program we are offering in partnership with the Chelsea Center for the Arts (CCA). Preschool Plus gives Co-op children in the 4 year old classes 45 minutes worth of instruction by the CCA’s experts in either music, dance or art and will take place before or after preschool once a week. It does not replace the existing music and art components in the preschool curriculum.

Children registered for preschool in the morning will stay after school to eat lunch in the classroom. They will be cared for by one of the teachers. A sack lunch will be brought from home. At 11:45am the children will go upstairs to the CCA classrooms for their music or art class, finishing at 12:30pm after which they will go home.

Conversely, children registered for afternoon preschool will arrive at 10:15am for Preschool Plus in the upstairs CCA classrooms. They will end at 11am at which time they will be escorted downstairs to their preschool classroom and have a sack lunch with the morning preschool class. Their regular preschool class will begin at 11:45am and end at 2:15pm.

There will be no Preschool Plus in September, December and May.

A sample curriculum could have the following components:

Let’s Play: Music and Art

Creative play is the work of children. Experiment with color, rhythmic play and musical theater.

Mud Pies

Storytime comes to life as bright, vibrant clay creations. Students will become familiar with the vocabulary of art : line, form, texture, shape, as well as some clay specific vocabulary including kiln, glaze and firing. Clay working methods will be taught as will the use of tools.

Dalcroze

Build upon your child’s natural love of music. This three part method – rhythmics, solfege and improvisation encourages children to understand and learn music through all the senses, not just the mind. Children will be singing, dancing, moving and learning with Carly Margolis.

Art History

Meet the Masters: short story about a famous (or even not so famous) artist followed by a mini hands on activity .

Daily Schedule on Wednesdays for Children attending Preschool Plus

Morning Class

8:15am Assisting parents and their children arrive
8:30am School begins
8:45am Gathering Time
9:00am Center Time
10:00am Clean-up Time
10:15am Snack Time
10:30am Circle and Library Time
10:45am Outdoor Play
11:00am Preschool finishes. Lunch Time – children eat a sack lunch in the classroom
11:45am Preschool Plus. The children are escorted to one of the upstairs classrooms in the CCA for their music or art class.
12:30pm Dismissal. Parents must sign out their child.

Afternoon Class

10:15am Children arrive at the CCA for Preschool Plus.
11:00am Children are escorted downstairs to the preschool classrooms where they eat their sack lunch
11:30am Assist parent and their children arrive
11:45am School Begins
12:00pm Gathering Time
12:15pm Center Time
1:15pm Clean-up Time
1:30pm Snack Time
1:45pm Circle and Library Time
2:00pm Outdoor Play
2:15pm Dismissal. Parents must sign out their child.