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Baby
Artsplay!TM classes are:
- Designed
to support the very young child's social, emotional,
intellectual, and motor development through quality arts
interactions with adults
- Interdisciplinary
performing arts: music with drama and movement
- Multisensory—emphasizing
songs and activities
- Integrated
with simple American Sign Language
- Book-centered—fostering
language/literacy development
- Taught
by senior-level Wolf Trap Teaching Artists
Baby
Artsplay!TM class
objectives:
For
Children:
- Promote
vocalization and motor skills
- Increase
awareness of and responsiveness to movement and sound
- Encourage
vocabulary growth
- Develop
socialization skills
- Gain
recognition of new aspects in the environment
- Stimulate
innate sense of discovery
For
Parents:
- Develop
the skill of steady beat in their children through
aural, oral, and motor activities
- Learn,
model, and select quality and developmentally
appropriate songs to sing and movement
activities to perform with their
children
- Approach
sharing and reading books with
their children in multiple expressive ways that
encourage
the desire
to learn
- Develop
confidence
in using
their
singing and
speaking
voice
- Learn
to sing in a
healthy
way
that is pleasing
and
comforting
to
young children
and
good for the
children
to
listen to and
begin
to
model
- Develop
a love of singing with their children
Baby
Artsplay!TM classes will have young children
and parents/caregivers
experiencing
the arts
together as they:
- Learn
and sing children's songs
- Play
rhythm and melodic instruments
that are developmentally appropriate
for young
children
- Engage
in
chants and songs/games
that
develop
fine
and
gross movement
skills
- Bring
stories
to
life
through
vocal
character
development
and "Coffee
Can
Theater" techniques
of
using
props
with
storytelling
and
other
tactile
experiences
- Learn
to recognize
early learning
skills in
arts activities
and experiences
with children
- Participate
in
small group
activities
- Engage
in
Q&A
about the benefits of the arts and
early childhood learning
with the Wolf Trap Teaching
Artist/Instructor
- Interact
socially after class at the
Parent/Caregiver
waiting room with
complimentary beverages provided
Baby
Artsplay!TM Teaching Artists:
Aaron Fowler, Pamela
Lamont, Amy Kaspar Woolf, Twyla Smith
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