KVMS Preschool Program

Why Art Start Studio is Important for Preschoolers

"Preschool-age children are primed for learning and greatly accepting of most art forms"

Source: Arts Education Partnership, Children’s Learning & the Arts: Birth to Age Eight

 Adapt to and respect other ways of thinking, working, and expressing themselves

  • Help develop motor skills
  • Learn developmental skills that are as important to a child's education as language skills
  • Develop "right-brain" ways of creative problem solving rather than following a redetermined outline
  • Recognize beauty in the world around them
  • Learn the powers of observation
  • Stimulate the growth of their brains

KMVS Classes Offered For Preschoolers

(*Kankakee Valley Montessori Student Classes for Preschoolers 45 min to one hour class 7 week sessions offered fall, winter and spring)
 

KVMS 2009 7 WEEK FALL SESSION  

 7 Week Fall Session runs  

  September 21, 2009  
to 
November 6th, 2009

  Fall Enrollment fees are due 9-8-09  

 Fall Session supplies and fees cost $136.00 

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 Preprimary KVMS Classes  

 These classes are for the KVMS students ages 3-5 which are in a preprimary class only.  

 Please choose on day/time to enroll your child

Day/Time
Wed. 10-10:45 am
Wed 1-1:15 pm
Thur. 10-10:45 pm
Thur. 1-1:15 pm

What is Offered for Preschool Classes: 

Preprimary classes then  participate in a hands-on art history or multicultural art project using different media each week.  These classes also include weekly drawing exercises based on the Monart School Method and secondary art activities not mentioned depending on class time.

All art is displayed at the school following class and returned the next week.

Weekly Class Schedule

Week 1 Action Jackson
Week 2 Pueblo Pottery
Week 3 Impasto Like Van Gogh
Week 4 Gauguin's Colorful Landscapes
Week 5 Awesome African Metalwork

Week 6 Handcolored Photographs

Week 7 Chinese Dancing Dragons

 


 
 

 


KVMS Toddler program

 
Why Art Start Studio is Important
For Toddlers
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*Compelling evidence exists that early arts experience has an impact on all aspects of a child’s learning and development and that, in many ways, “earlier is better.”
 
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Source: Arts Education Partnership, Children’s Learning & the Arts: Birth to Age Eight

*KVMS Classes offered for:
n Toddlers
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*Kankakee Valley Montessori Student Classes for Toddlers age 2 in  45 minute class in 7 week sessions offered, winter and spring

 

What is offered for toddler classes:
*Simple “open- ended” art activities are what they experience, such as:

Painting with a salad spinner, egg beaters, Jell-O
   
nWorking with clay and different clay tools
  
nPrintmaking with anything and everything - from natural materials to things found around the house 
  
nColor mixing with squirt bottles
  
nVarious collage activities
 
 n5 to 7 open ended art activities are introduced .  Activities are never repeated in a year.    
 
nThese activities are set up around the studio for the child to create and discover as they wish

Art work is displayed following each week's class and sent home the following week~

KVMS Toddler Class Schedule

The KVMS Toddler Classes are offered beginning in Winter 2010

Classes begin the week of January 15th, 2010

KVMS Winter Session fees are due January 5, 2010

Classes are held Tuesdays from 9-9:45 am

Enrollment fees for this session are $136.00

These classes are conducted with one instructor and one assistant

There is a minimum of 4 students and maximum of  5 in a KVMS Toddler Class

All KVMS students participate in the Annual Youth Art Exhibit hosted by the Gretchen Charlton Art Gallery in March.  One piece of art is retained for display in the exhibit and returned following the close of the exhibit.  Information is sent home thru KVMS regarding the exhibit.


Fall Brochure

Click here to view the KVMS Fall Brochure
From all of us at Art Start Studio, thanks for visiting our web site and we hope to see you soon.