TerraNichol Academy of the Arts
Weekly Blog November 26th-30th, 2018
Learning Lab Exploration
Sadly we say goodbye to one of our favorite artists Frida Kahlo! This week we completed our art appreciation projects inspired by Frida with our Frida inspired Valentino portraits!
Musical instruments were happily played during World Music Workshop. Enjoying the cooler weather gathered around our drum circle area students sang and captured a rhythm while playing percussion instruments such as tambourines, triangles, and maracas.
We also began dabbling in ramps, and bridges this week! This project will continue in December while investigating buildings and landmarks around the world! We created a kinesthetic learning connection while engaging in London Bridge Movement Games!
Yoga Home Kits
Namaste at home! Yoga kits are a great way to engage kids in yoga ❤️workshops at home.
Yoga calming spray, yoga peaceful essential oil roller bottle, breathing technique card, affirmation card, and karma punch card. $15 Add a lavender eye pillow to the kit for $5. Great mindful stocker stuffers! #shoplocal#ecoschoolstore #yogaforkids #mindfulschool
Culinary Arts Bread in a Bag Recipe
Bread in a Bag
1 gallon sized resealable plastic bag
3 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 packet yeast (rapid rise or regular)
1 cup warm water
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon salt (this can be to taste)
We added cinnamon to taste to our recipe as well and then sprinkled cinnamon on our bread when it came out of the oven!
- Combine 1 cup flour, sugar, and yeast packet in a bowl. Pour into a resealable (Ziplock style) bag.
- Add warm water. Seal bag, pressing out air.
- Begin shaking and mixing the bag by hand
- Set bag to rest for 10 minutes (proofing)
- In a bowl, combine 1 cup of flour with salt. Pour into bag along with melted butter.
- Seal bag again, pressing out air. Shake and mix again.
- Open bag and add in last cup of flour.
- Seal bag, and mix for final time.
- Pull out dough and place on a floured surface.
- With floured hands, knead dough for 5-10 minutes
- Place dough in a greased loaf pan.
- Lay towel over the loaf pan and set it in a warm spot in your house. Allow the dough 30-45 minutes to rise
- Bake at 375 for 25 minutes
Mark Your Calendars
Important Dates to Know!
December
21st-Jan. 4th School Closed for Winter Break
Special and Fun Days through the month
12th Gingerbread Day
14th Yoga Day
January
7th (M) School resumes from Winter Break
14th and 15th (M-T) Pottery Enrichment Workshop with Open Studio-Onsite Workshop
16th (W) Off-Site Field Trip Junior Kindergarten First Grade Field Trip to Van Wezel for performance of Rosie Revere Engineer!
16th (W) School Closed for Professional Day
21st (M) School Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Special and Fun days through the month
International Creativity Month
9th Kid Inventor’s Day
15th Hat Day
20th Penguin Awareness -project 21-25th
29th Inspire your Heart with Art
31st Backwards Day
Reggio Emilia Curriculum
See you at the Sip and Shop this Thursday!
Holiday Pop Up Market
Champagne Sparklers and Charcuterie Board.
Shop The Eco-Friendly TerraSoul School Store and many other local vendors.
Purchase with a purpose!
Thank you Melissa Z for volunteering so much of your energy to coordinate this event! We appreciate you!
Seeking a Helpful Sewer
Now that we are coming to the end of the school semester make sure you have your volunteer hours completed for the first semester.
Now that we are coming to the end of the school semester. We ask all parents to review, document and tally up your volunteers hours. If you selected to donate items off the school amazon list. Print out your orders and record your total amount and items donated in the volunteer book. If you selected to shop in the school store total the amount you spent and record in the volunteer book.
We ask that all parents be responsible for recording and documenting their hours.
Please see reference sheet below.
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a village to run a school successfully.
Parent Volunteer Co-Op Program Reference Sheet
3 hours per quarter=6 hours per semester=12 hours per school year
1st semester- August-December
2nd semester-January-May
Participate in the following ways
Parent will honor 3 hours per quarter.
Work as a helping parent (Parent helper will assist teaching team as a parent mentor, prepare activities, prepare projects for the month, sewing dramatic clothes, repairing toys, book orders, garden helper, making play dough or gak, bubble maker, committee member for teacher appreciation week and donate food and supplies, donate supplies each month are some of the examples of jobs. There are a variety of opportunities to fit every family's interest, schedules, and needs and families select their top choices before the beginning of the new school year.
$350 per school year purchasing items off our school wish list for learning lab environments.
$350 donation per school year.
$350 spent in the school eco-friendly store per school year.
Donation to the end of the year school play.
If the parent chooses to do both shopping off of Amazon Wish List/School Store and other Volunteer items the total cost percentage would be deducted from the $350 total. Every approximate $30 spent equals 1 volunteer hour.
Example: Parent’s Amazon purchases for learning lab materials = $60 that parent receives 2 volunteer hours. The parent would have 10 volunteer hours left to complete for the school year
Calling on our Tribe
Volunteers and Donations:
We would love a volunteer to paint our wooden tables that were upcycled from electrical wire. Volunteer would paint with an outdoor paint that includes primer, lime green and aqua) as well as apply a clear coat!
Our adorable garden houses are in need of some repair. We would like to replace some parts with more sustainable materials. When designed and built by the company it seems that the wood was not sustainable enough for Florida weather especially the moisture. If you could help us with the repairs we are need of assistance as soon as possible. Also if you have ideas of what materials would be cost effective and also will hold up please reach out. The porch areas and the molding are the areas that need repair first. See photo below.
See photos of fun take home projects that we would love to add to our environment!
We Love This Marker Holder
Helmet Stand
Simple Sensory Walk-Most items are available at the Dollar Store
Upcycled Train Table
Nature Table and Playscape Signs
Scooter and Bike Port
Help Paint our new Playscape Tables
TerraNichol Academy Of The Arts School Wishlist
Earn your 12 volunteer hours by shopping our Amazon school wishlist.
Earn Volunteer Hours.
Help spread awareness about connecting children to nature! Donate signs to TerraNichol Academy Of The Arts for our nature whimsical and magical playscape area. We would like to have 5 signs on playscape area and two signs out front.
Order a Children at Nature Play sign now ==>
natureplaysign.com
Many thanks....
Martin/Culbreth Family donating a beautiful cedar easel, and exploration kits for eco-village
Dignam Family for the fun new yoga games to add to our Yoga curriculum
Carney Family for planting our new fruit trees on the playscape
Everyone who donated towards our learning lab wish list this month
Mayer Family for their big BetterLife purchase
Snyder Family for shopping the school store.
We are looking forward to using our new enrichment and learning lab additions. Thank you Again
TerraNichol Academy of the Arts Innovative Reggio Emilia School
TerraNichol Academy of The Arts School is the kind of school parents expect, educators celebrate and children adore. Our approach to learning celebrates the great potential of young children, with the goal of nurturing self-motivated, life-long learners. The learning labs are guided by our Master Teachers as well as the Founder of TerraNichol Academy of The Arts Preschool with low teacher-to-child ratio to allow for one-on-one engagement and thoughtful observation. Join our small community school for a backstage tour and be inspired by our thoughtful team of Early Childhood Educators here at TerraNichol Academy.
Come and Explore our Reggio Emilia program at TerraNichol Academy acclaimed for the stunning environments, their educators who create, provoke and dazzle the students' senses, invite curiosity and discovery, and most importantly, foster strong, respectful meaningful relationships.
Come learn about the values for children in the program:
Being a home away from home..
connecting children to their families..
helping children to be powerful and active..
being a steward of the natural world..
seeing oneself as a capable learner..
recognizing and being curious about..
We provide a school environment that is beautiful and taken care of with an attitude of care so that parents, children, and teachers want to come to school every day.
It is with an intelligent heart and courage that we continue our goals and vision to continue to proceed with the work of a child.
We would love for you to attend one of the backstage tours on the following dates:
December 10th @4:30pm
January 14th @4:30pm
February 11th @4:30pm
March 11th @4:30pm
April 8th @4:30pm
May 13th @4:30pm
June 10th @4:30pm
July 8th @4:30pm
Submit a school application by visiting our website if you will be attending the Tour. http://www.terranichol.com/resources
Email: terranicholacademy@gmail.com
Website: www.terranichol.com
Location: 701 Old Englewood Road, Englewood, FL, United States
Phone: 941-474-3000
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Twitter: @terranichol