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Children’s School takes a page from summer camp

August 20, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

After eight weeks of fun, Children’s School wraps up its season with tents, hikes, insects and s’mores. Children ages 3, 4 and 5 will participate in activities more closely related to summer camp this week with a “Let’s Go Camping” theme.

Teachers Kathie Szabo, Sandi Holden, JoAnne Borg, Laura Vasisko and Kelly Fox will take the 3-year-olds camping. They will learn how to pitch tents, go for hikes around the Institution grounds, make binoculars and use them to investigate from a distance. They will also have a chance to make friendship bracelets and macaroni noodle necklaces with their new Children’s School buddies, to use sidewalk chalk to draw, and to make everyone’s favorite camping treat from marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate.

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Carnegie Science Center brings events to Chautauqua all Week Nine

August 18, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

As the season winds down and staffers from Children’s Club and Boys’ and Girls’ Club return to college, the youth programs look for ways to continue providing programming for young Chautauquans.

The Carnegie Science Center has been coming to Chautauqua late in the season for more than a decade to provide science-related programming and events for Children’s School and Club.

The first event, “Geocaching on the Grounds,” will equip 15 teams with GPS units and pit them against one another in a treasure hunt.

There will be two identical sessions Saturday. The first session is from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the second is from 2–4 p.m. Teams will be able to sign up on Bestor Plaza on a first-come basis.

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Photos: Dancing in the streets

August 16, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Boys’ and Girls’ Clubbers, Children’s School students and their respective staffs all combined to light up a gloomy morning with some colorful moves last Friday on the Club campus. All photos by Michelle Kanaar.

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Children’s School gets messy with tactile exploration

August 14, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

In their penultimate week this season, Children’s School is getting down and dirty with an “ooey gooey” theme. Three-, 4- and 5-year-olds will explore their tactile sense while having fun and making art.

In the Red and Green rooms, 3-year-olds will explore artistic mediums, turning from paint to much squishier, foamier, bubblier forms of expression. They will make prints using slices of fruits and vegetables and marble shaving cream and use corn starch goo to paint. Experimentation with color blending will also include shaving cream, and a chance to play with slime.

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North Carolina Dance Theatre’s Sarah Watson and Pete Walker. Photo courtesy of Jeff Cravotta.

NCDT closes season with CSO

August 11, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

When Sasha Janes couldn’t think of a title for his new ballet, he did what any stumped choreographer would do: He left it up to a bunch of 5-year-olds.

The North Carolina Dance Theatre associate artistic director put the naming of his new work into the tiny hands of a Children’s School class of 5-year-olds. As a father of three young children, Janes was excited to involve kids in his production.

“They have great imaginations,” he said.

The quirky, comedic ballet, danced to a jubilant score by Haydn, is part of NCDT’s performance with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Grant Cooper at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater.

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Children’s School Blue and Yellow rooms staff. Photo by Adam Birkan.

‘Blellow’ collaboration fuels Children’s School fun

August 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Teamwork is a quality revered by the entire Children’s School staff, but the teachers in the Blue and Yellow rooms are particularly driven by it, thriving on the interwoven nature of the two 5-year-old classes.

Blue Room head teacher Mark Doty has taught at Children’s School for more than 10 years.

“It’s a really interesting group,” Doty said. “It’s not really hierarchical. We all feel like we can do a good job when we’re working together. We don’t really separate out as much as the Blue and Yellow room — we call ourselves ‘blellow,’ and we try to do as many things as possible together.”

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Tall Papa Joe (Sathya Sridharan), Wide Mama Bess (Stephen Spencer), Strong Brother Abel (Leicester Landon) and Sweet Little Isabel (Sarah Hartmann) try to pluck the Giant Carrot (Josh Tobin) with the help of the kids in Children’s School.

Children’s School helps young carrot reach his full potential

July 28, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

The anxious circle of children— many of whom dressed up for the theater in princess dresses or superhero suits — leaps to its feet on cue and loudly sings, “Just like a carrot seed, that’s one day small and then a tree.”

At the mention of the word ‘seed,’ the children curl up into tiny balls on the floor, and when the lyrics hit the word ‘tree,’ they jump to their feet, arms stretched high above them.

They are part of the cast of The Giant Carrot, a collaborative event between Chautauqua Theater Company and Children’s School, which had two performances for two different age groups at 9:30 and 10 a.m. on Thursday at Children’s School.

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School bus driver Charlie Loveless greets kids leaving Children’s School.

Institution’s friendly transportation staff, led by Nelson, works to move Chautauquans young and old where they need to go

July 28, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“In 1995 when I began,” Rhonda Nelson says, “they started me driving trams. At that time, the fleet included one north bus, one south bus, two trams and a school bus, which doubled as transportation for tours of the grounds. Once they found out I drove a school bus in Sherman, I got switched to the big bus.”

Now, after 17 years behind the wheel on the grounds at Chautauqua, Nelson supervises a staff of 23 drivers, three school buses, 10 passenger buses and 10 trams.

Chautauquans and visitors quickly recount stories about the drivers’ kindness, courtesy and generosity. One woman gushed about how her granddaughter left behind a favorite pair of swim goggles on a ride up the hill from the Children’s Beach to the house where the family was staying.

“Our driver finished his route, found the goggles, somehow recalled where he had dropped us off, and returned them with a smile,” she said. “My granddaughter was thrilled. I don’t think she’ll ever forget that man’s kindness.”

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