Join us for YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series: Workshop 1:”1-2-3 Count With Me” (Math Foundations) at the New Orleans Jazz Museum on Sunday, November 6th 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 1: “1-2-3 Count With Me” (Math Foundations)
We’re making groceries! One-to-one number correspondence, or understanding that the word “one” is directly connected to one item, is an important foundation in math. What better way to explore it than with food? Sing and count along as we play in everyone’s favorite room in the house, the kitchen!
Caregiver Connection Card:
“1-2-3, Count With Me” (Math Foundations)
Young children are tactile learners, and their introduction to math comes from daily routines and activities. Children of this age are beginning to understand what numbers really mean but they do not fully understand quantity. They can classify and sort objects, but usually by only one characteristic at a time. Help your little one understand the concept of quantity by teaching your child to understand that a physical object can represent a number or an amount. Start by using their fingers, blocks, or something physical to facilitate understanding.
MAIN PROP: Toy Vegetable
TIPS: Simple activities such as counting the number of steps your child takes will build a foundation for more complex mathematical concepts in the future.
SONG: “Come Into My Kitchen”(Come into my kitchen/you can smell the food/everyone is waiting/and everything is good)
Alt. Prop: Make counting a fun part of your day by using a collection of similar household items, such as Rubber Ducks and count along with them
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*We will have YALA Artsplay!™ Tiny Explorers Series at the New Orleans Jazz Museum 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.
