Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving 2009!!!

We have much to be thankful for. Thanks to all of the amazing kids, teachers, parents, families, supporters, friends, communities, organizations, artists, musicians, actors, theater professionals, pets, dinosaurs, princesses, princes, planets, and other characters we have the priviledge of working with throughout the year.


















Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Internships and Twitter-esque ramblings

Hey all,
Kids Creative is looking for interns. Spread the news far and wide.

Did you know that you can follow Kids Creative on Twitter?

You can also follow Mr. Clown of the Dirty Sock Funtime Band AND the Dirty Sock Funtime Band on their own!!!!



Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Kids Creative at PS 102


The following account is an overview of the new Kids Creative program at PS 102.

KIDS CREATIVE PS 102 HIGHLIGHTS & UPDATES
(As reported by Assistant Teacher Tejon Witter aka TJ)
Little Kids are comprised of children in grades K, 1st and 2nd
Big Kids are comprised of children in grades 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
Remember Communication is KEY!

October 14, 2009
Acting
First Day: Learned children’s name and introduction.

October 16, 2009
Art
Made and colored sheep, bulls, and bird masks.

October 19, 2009
Music
Little Kids:
Played name games with adjectives and went over the class rules.
Some included were: all ideas are good, playing safe, showing support and encouragement for one another, yes and.

Big Kids:
Name game with overview of rules and expectations
Zip Zap Zop
Vocal warm-ups
Brainstorms and thoughts for next class, and songs and themes for Halloween

October 21, 2009
Acting
Little Kids:
Voice Warm-ups
Brainstorm ideas for play
A monster who’s funny instead of scary, such as in Monsters Inc

Big Kids:
Body and voice warm-ups
Brainstorm Titles of the play:
boy who could do the longest thing, slumber party, cheerleading, missing tooth, ice cream, sugar and spice, high school musical, Hannah Montana, cat who jumped out the window, the last year of earth, high school drama, vampire diaries, kids creative, super girl, Halloween day, haunted Halloween.

October 23, 2009
Art
Little Kids:
Finished painting and designing mask

Big Kids:
Drew inanimate objects in the classroom

October 26, 2009
Music
Little Kids:
Played Freeze Dance Song
Wrote Ricky Baloney Song:
“Ricky Baloney
(Kids Repeat) Ricky Baloney
Rhymes with Baloney
(Kids Repeat)
La, La, La, La, La
Eats all the baloney
Num, num, na, num, num, num
Bones for a walking stick
He is so great
He makes soft grapes
Different kinds of baloney
Ricky Baloney
Ricky Baloney”

Big Kids:
Played I love you game
Wrote Opening Verse for Halloween Song:
“Halloween is here
Let’s make some Jack-O-Lanterns with fear
A saw with skeletons, haunted house too
Zombies and spiders, ghost that say boo!
Babies are crying, Vampires are biting
Spiders and scary movies are igniting
A fire that burns into the night
Vampires and skeletons are fighting a fight.”

October 28, 2009
Acting:
Little Kids
Monster tag, where you could only run, tag, walk, and play like your character
After brainstorm we began an activity of brainstorming sentences with one another
“Once upon a time, there was a dinosaur traveling for food. He wanted food but was unable to find the supermarket. Once found, unfortunately it was closed. He then began to wander around into a forest and found a gigantic monster. The monster had food and the dinosaur tried to scare him for it but the monster jumped unbelievably high, which caused the dinosaur to forget all about his hunger and bust into hysterical laugher and applause. The dinosaur then realized how funny he was and began doing a traveling show where he would be able to laugh at his amazing skill of high jumping.”

Big Kids
Vocal warm-ups:
Placing emphasis on T sounds:
Oh what to do to die today at a minute or two 'til two
A thing distinctly hard to say yet harder still to do
For they'll beat a tattoo at twenty to two
With a rattatta tattatta tattatta too
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
At a minute or two 'til two today
At a minute or two 'til two.

Brainstorming sentences on the titles of previous weeks:
Sleep Over/Slumber party
Missing Tooth
Cat who jumped out the window
“Once upon a time, a little girl named Kalie had pet cats named ShishCaBob, Mr Pickles, and a dog named Dora. Kalie went to the slumber party and unexpectedly ShishCaBob jumped out the window. Kaile was unaware and when ShishCaBob knocked back on the window Kaile yelled and kicked her right back out! After jumping from the window she fell on the floor and said Mewww! Her tooth then popped out. Her leg was broken and cut. She was hurt and Kalie, carefully and lovingly took her to the hospital. However, someone steals the cat from the hospital which causes Kalie to place missing posters up. The tooth fairy came later that night, but had no one to exchange candy with for the tooth. While still sad and disheartened, Kalie heard a meow at the door…IT WAS ShishCaBob!!!!!
Surprise, surprise, the tooth fairy also left a note…

October 30, 2009
Art:
Little Kids and Big kids were together for the day. We began with gym and later enjoyed a pizza party together in the art room, watching Michael Jackson classic videos.