Aug
2018
Hands On Art and Play is excited to be celebrating our 18th school year! Hands On started in my home with 6 children, my youngest daughter included. We quickly moved into classroom space in a neighborhood church that winter and added another teacher and 6 more kids. We started as a small 2 day
Jun
2018
Summer camps are off to a great start! So far this summer our campers have enjoyed nature camp with a fun visit from Talk About Trees. A great week of dance camp with Rachael Brown Dance! And a week of creating projects out of recycled goods. We are making so many new friends
Apr
2018
May Wow! Is it really the last month of school? Our students have grown up so much this year and our kindergartners are ready for their next adventure! We have 20 children graduating this month! All of our returning students will enjoy being the big kids next year, and will help welcome many younger siblings
Mar
2018
April Themes this Month Caterpillars & Butterflies Earth Day Spring & Plants Week of the Young Child National Poetry Month Picasso Pig & Family We are so excited to get our caterpillars in the mail! They will be coming soon and we will set up a habitat for them in the classroom to
Mar
2018
March March is an exciting month! It is starting to feel like spring and we are enjoying our time outside on the playground. Our class will start learning about plants and insects and we will start our own seeds inside the classroom. We also have many fun visitors to the class this month. We start off
Feb
2018
Last Month This last month has gone by so fast! Our students were busy while they were in class. We had fun building igloos with shaving cream and ice, painting with ice cubes and we worked hard learning the story of Balto and are looking forward to sharing it with our families. The students
Jan
2018
Happy New Year! We are looking forward to seeing all the students again and hearing about their holiday vacations. It seems like we have been out of school for so long. Our daily preschool schedule will change a little bit as our students will begin to work with smaller groups for circle time and project
Dec
2017
December – Winter Holidays Throughout December we are talking and learning about holidays. We will share stories about how each of us celebrates with our family, and we’ll learn about holidays around the world. We are helping the children learn that there are many people in our world and many different beliefs and
Nov
2017
October Fun October has gone by so fast. Thank you to everyone for helping us celebrate Halloween, our pajama party, breakfast for lunch. It was a very festive week for all the children. Be sure to look at all the pictures on Facebook or Instagram, and if you have some photos, send them
Oct
2017
Fall Fun What a great start to the school year at Hands On Art and Play! The students are having a great time and learning so many things. We have so much fun in circle time with everyone taking turns doing their jobs. Some kids do the weather report, others sing the calendar song.
