Join us for YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series: Workshop 3: “Opposites Attract” (Word Relations) on Sunday, November 20th 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 3: “Opposites Attract” (Word Relations)
Up and down; large and small; big and little; fast and slow. Learning about opposites is a great way for children to develop their critical thinking skills. This early exploration with comparison builds the foundations of a host of mathematical concepts, including understanding measurement, time, and spatial reasoning.
Caregiver Connection Card:
“Opposites Attract” (Cognitive Skills)
Expanding the language of tiny explorers is important because it helps them to communicate successfully with others, which also helps to develop their sense of self. Understanding the concept of opposites is important because it helps a child to learn how to compare two different things and develop a more concrete understanding of a specific concept (e.g. hard vs soft). Learning opposites also improves a child’s descriptive language skills and it develops their higher-order thinking skills. Children learn best through play so, wherever possible, it is best to incorporate games. Tactile experiences that use opposites will give your child a hands-on understanding of the words and make the idea more real.
MAIN PROP: Pop Tube
TIPS: Tell your toddler to perform a specific action and then you do the opposite. For example, if they sit down, then you stand up, or if they walk forward, then you walk backward. Once your child is familiar with the game, you perform the action first, and have your toddler do the opposite.
SONG: “Open, Shut Them" (Open and shut them, open and shut them/give a little clap, clap, clap/open and shut them, open and shut them, put them in your lap, lap, lap" w/ opposites: "Big and small, big and small/big, big, big, big, small, small, small/big and small, big and small/big, big, big, big, small, small, small)
Alt. Prop: Puzzles. Putting together simple puzzles will teach children to identify and describe objects that are the "same" or "different", while also helping them understand that a whole object can be separated into parts.
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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.
