Join us for YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series: Workshop 2: “Pass It Along” (Social Skills) on Sunday, November 13th at 10:30 AM CST in the Drumsville Exhibition, (circular room), on the 2nd floor of the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
The YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series Workshops are for early learners up to age five.
The workshops will be taught by artist Joel Wilson.
The 30-minute workshops allow children to explore, observe and investigate their world and the museum through song, dance, and movement experiences. Now in its seventh year, YALA Artsplay!™ Presented by The Helis Foundation is engaging families with infants and toddlers through multi-sensory interactive sessions at local cultural, arts, and history institutions. Caregivers learn how they can use arts strategies to promote childhood development in their everyday life. Our community partners include the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans African American Museum, Newcomb Art Museum, and the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
This free 6-part workshop series is made possible by The Helis Foundation. The workshops provide engaging arts-based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts to promote early learning. Lessons are conducted by certified Louisiana Wolf Trap Teaching Artists, who have expertly crafted multi-sensory experiences that foster children’s natural curiosity for learning. After each workshop, children and their caregivers can download digital Caregiver Connection Cards for tips on how workshop activities can be continued at home. Watch all the videos in the series again by following us on YouTube (@youngaudiencesla).
Workshop 2: “Pass It Along” (Social Skills)
Social skills are foundational to learning in all other domains. Children build the capacity for success in preschool and beyond by establishing themselves as individuals, exploring what it means to possess something, and recognizing the emotions of others. Help little ones develop the skills for healthy social interaction by playing passing and sharing games.
Caregiver Connection Card:
“Pass It Along” (Social Skills),
Mine! Let Me Have It! Give it To me! These refrains may be all too familiar in your home. Although children start to recognize themselves as individuals with their own things, they haven’t quite grasped the idea that some things belong to other people or that they can come back to something later. Give-and-take is hard for young children, who have yet to gain a clear understanding of time or a sophisticated grasp of language. To them, sharing means being forced to give something up. The goal is to change that experience for them, and teach them that sharing can create happiness. You can teach sharing by passing the object back and forth while saying “my turn, your turn”, so they can begin to discover the silver lining of sharing.
MAIN PROP: Bean Bag
TIPS: Empathy is growing at this age. Teaching your child words to express their feelings is a great way to help them recognize their own feelings. Over time, this recognition will translate into the ability to read and respond to the feelings of others.
SONG: “Hot Potato” (Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, hot/Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, stop!)
Alt. Prop: Shaker Egg
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*We will have YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series at the New Orleans Jazz Museum sessions every Sunday in November and December except for November 27th and December 25th.
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November 6 - Workshop 1 - "1-2-3, Count WIth Me" (Math Foundations)
November 13 - Workshop 2 - "Pass It Along" (Social Skills)
November 20 - Workshop 3 - “Opposites Attract” (Word Relations)
December 4 - Workshop 4 - “Fun at the Zoo” (Motor Skills)
December 11 - Workshop 5 - “Mirror, Mirror” (Social Emotional Skills)
December 18 - Workshop 6 - “Wild at Art!” (Imaginative play)
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Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) was founded in 1962 to bring chamber musicians into local classrooms. Over the years YALA has adapted and evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of youth throughout the state, becoming the leading provider of arts education and integration programs in the state of Louisiana. We offer a comprehensive and creative approach to educating children. Fortified with 60 years of experience, we draw upon our region’s strong culture to provide young people with tools to impact their worlds using art. Through our school performances, arts-integrated residencies, extended learning programs, community workshops, and professional learning for teachers and teaching artists, we not only impact the children of New Orleans, but make intentional contact with the influential adults in their lives.
