Renoir & Recorders

Cassidy's painting in the
style of Renoir.

Today we also read the story, When will it be Spring? (see Wednesday). Then we pretended to hibernate, but every time we woke up it was still winter outside. Finally the little ‘bear cubs’ looked outside and saw flowers and butterflies, which meant it was spring time!

The children played their colourful rhythm sticks to a steady beat in music today. Then they each had a chance to try the fingering on a recorder. We talked about woodwind instruments, and how we have to blow into these instruments and move our fingers to make the sound.

In art, we looked at The Parisian, a painting by Renoir. We noticed that he used dabs of paint and the children tried using this style with thick brush strokes to make their own paintings.