After School Activities

Amélie is now participating in her first set of 'After School Programs' - Basically that's code for the creative activities she used to do any time she chose at Hoosier Courts, and are now done in specific structured times in the Montessori School she now is attending.

The curriculum at her school is actually pretty cool and she is getting really into it: Every other day, she brings a new little booklet with new information and things she colored, and learned about at school. Yesterday, she brought back a nice little booklet that had the 5 continents, she recited all 5 continents in French, which was pretty cool to hear!

She also learned this week about a new technique to draw kitties, she absolutely loved it and was very proud of the end result:



Anyway anyway, back to our point - After School Activities! We signed her up for 3 this time around:
1) Papier Mâché - They glue paper strips to different objects (ballons, round shapes), creating bowls and other recipients that they will then paint - She likes the activity although getting her hands messy is not a favorite thing for her...
2) FUNMovement - Music class with singing and dancing - She enjoys this one a lot, and we are seriously considering signing her up for a modern dance course soon, this kid's got rhythm!
3) Newsletter club - Our budding reporter is 'Writing' and illustrating stories with a group of kids from different classes in the school. She asked to be in this class and last week focused the whole class on producing a single picture, her teacher was impressed by the result, and so were we:



OK OK just remember the kid is 5 :)...