The Final Week of Itty Bitty Arts Camp
Let’s all put our hands together and help us celebrate the final week of an incredible summer of Glitter & Razz camps. Â If you loved being part of Itty Bitty Arts Camp or you didn’t get a chance to join us, make sure to check out our Itty Bitty Theater Workshops, afterschool classes for kids ages 4-6 or our Play in a Day Camps for kids ages 4-10. Enjoy! Free Royalty Free Music by...
Read MoreItty Bitties say “Yes We Can!”
This week at Itty Bitty Arts Camp is all about doing tough stuff and loving it! Â Allison designed the Yes We Can Framework to help young children work through their feelings around challenging situations and learn how to come out the other side with a more confident sense of self. Â We chose this as our Week 3 theme since many of our Itty Bitties will be starting kindergarten next week and need a little extra help making that tough transition into big kids school. Here are a couple of clips of Allison, who is also the drama teacher this week. Â The first one shows her teaching young...
Read MoreItty Bitties are Working it Out
Written by Allison This week at Glitter & Razz, our Itty Bitties are “working it out!” Each morning starts with a puppet show, where super specialists from Work it Out Learning collaborate with Glitter & Razz teaching artists to perform stories of friendship, inclusion and honoring our feelings. Yesterday, a tiny mouse contributed her big ideas about building a tower, even when the other animals weren’t sure she had anything to offer. Today, the same mouse was overwhelmed by animals who got so excited during a painting project that they lost control of their...
Read MoreStarting a New School Year with the Yes We Can Framework
This post was written by Glitter & Razz co-founder, Allison Kenny, during the final days of the Itty Bitty Yes We Can Camp where we led 4-6 year olds on an exploration of tackling new and challenging experiences. We captured the lesson on video and wanted to share it here but have had some technical difficulties. It’s great though so, please keep checking in our our Facebook page for when that goes live. We hope that you can use this framework as you are transitioning your children into a fall full of new experiences! This morning at circle time, I introduced a “Yes I...
Read MoreDay 3 of Yes We Can Camp!
This morning in circle, we asked the kids “Name one thing that you can’t do now that you hope to learn one day.â€Â Not everyone chose to share, but those who did offered up great goals: Sheridan , Mia, Evie- ride a 2 wheeler bike Luke & Natalie- learn to write Annalise & Hannah- learn to snap Cate & Phoebe- learn to whistle Eliana- do the monkey bars Zach S.-speak Spanish Alyssa- learn to speak French Ben- learn my lines in the play Maybe one day, I will learn to hula hoop like these kids are… In groups, we made dances celebrating learning to do these...
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