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Date: July 23 - 25

Monday July 23rd Tuesday July 24th

Holiday Program in the morning with last few students left to finish the program.

Wednesday July 25th

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Date: July 21 - 22

Saturday July 21st

Transferring of exhibition artwork onto canvases.

Sunday July 22nd Transferring of exhibition artwork onto canvases.

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Date: July 16 - 18

Monday July 16th Tuesday July 17th Wednesday July 18th

Holiday Program classes are ending and remaining Holiday program students are assigned as extra students during regular class hours.  Mornings are spent preparing for next month’s studio decoration. 

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Date: July 14 & 15

Saturday July 14th

Begin exhibition artwork practice with students. Practice are done on A3 paper with pencil. Color scheme as well as painting techniques were also discussed with the students. I had a new regular student for my Saturday class. His name is Zayleb and he is 3 years old. Zayleb joins the program at Level 1 and his projects mostly consists of drawing basic shapes, understanding primary colours, painting using fun techniques and painting on cutouts done by the teachers. Zayleb does not do well with attending art class without his parent waiting in class. Hence, I have to figure out ways to distract him from needing his parent by turning his attention towards fun painting and finding his specific area of interest in art class. 

Sunday July 15th

Begin exhibition artwork practice on A3 paper as well as discussion on color scheme and painting techniques.

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Date: July 9 - 11

Monday July 9th Tuesday July 10th Wednesday July 11th

Holiday program classes went as usual in the morning. Before regular classes begin teachers had meeting to order canvases for the students’ exhibition artworks.

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Date: July 7 & 8

Saturday July 7th

Regular class with regular students

Sunday July 8th Regular class with regular students. After class had ended at 5.30pm, teachers had consultation for exhibition artwork approval with the teacher in-charge.

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Date: July 1 - 4

Sunday July 1st Had regular class in the morning and at noon. After lunch, I was required to teach at Siglap Centre studio, to replace Faz’s afternoon Class. 

Siglap Centre studio is a 10 minute walk away from the studio in Mandarin Gardens. The studio is shared with art classes for adults. There are only two teachers who teach Little Blossoms class in Siglap. The students’ artworks were prepared by Faz before she went on urgent leave. The students were warm and welcoming of a replacement teacher. It was a pleasant to the teach Faz’s students.

Sunday July 1st Siglap Studio Timetable

Monday July 2nd Tuesday July 3rd Wednesday July 4th

Holiday Program classes went as usual in the mornings on July 2nd till 4th. 

Before regular classes resumes after lunch at 3pm, teachers had to prepare and set up studio decorations that changes every one to two months. 

Studio 3 Studio Decoration of the month

Tuesday July 3rd Holiday Program Timetable

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Date: June 25 -27 & 30

Monday June 25th Tuesday June 26th Wednesday June 27th Saturday June 30th

Holiday Program classes go as per usual in the morning from June 25th to June 27th. Afternoon classes are spent replacing other teacher’s classes who went on unpaid leave or are on medical leave. 

Saturday 30th June Studio Timetable

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Date: June 23 & 24

Saturday June 23rd

Welcomed a new student to my regular class. Her name is Sarah Tan, 6 years old. Sarah did an acrylic painting of a butterfly, which was an artwork of her on choosing. Sarah is my first original student that joins Little Artist under my tutelage from the beginning of her journey here. Parents are concerned with the projects that she will be doing as well as the range of mediums that she will explore with.  In the studio timetable, names highlighted in Yellow indicates a new student, names highlighted in green indicates Holiday Program students, names highlighted in Red indicates students that are withdrawing from the school, names highlighted in Blue indicates that they are absent for class and names highlighted in Orange indicates that they are in JP1/2 level in the program.

Sunday June 24th Exhibition artwork drafts done by myself are shown tot he students for them to approve and add or remove any details. These drafts are then sent to the teacher in charge of exhibition artwork approval. A meeting with the teacher in charge will take place some time in the following week to approve the exhibition artworks. 

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Date: June 18 - 20

18th June Holiday Program Studio Timetable

Monday June 18th Tuesday June 19th Wednesday June 20th

Holiday Program classes in the morning from 18th to 20th June.  On 18th June, Monday, I had to help other teachers in the studio teach their students as I only had 3 students to teach. My students Brenda, Joshua and Judah had good painting skills for their age. Brenda was much more well behaved as compared to the two boys. However, Joshua behaves better in class as compared to his brother, Judah. It was rather difficult to get Judah to stay focused as he wanted attention from all the teachers in the studio. All three children produced good quality artworks at the end of the day. 

Other days were spent taking replacement classes for Holiday Program students, who missed their scheduled classes in the morning and had a replacement class on another day or in the evening. 

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Date: June 16 & 17

Saturday June 16th,

Regular class with regular students. I am informed by studio supervisors that every project a student starts has to be completed within 2 classes at maximum. Students have to complete at least 3 projects a month. The rush to complete projects within two classes was challenging. I find that planning my classes and understanding each projects provided helped in the process making. It also helped that I take note of important educational notes to teach the students while they are working on a project.  Sunday, June 17th

Moe’s regular class with regular students. Discussion of exhibition artwork with students has begun. 30 minutes of brainstorming with students, including some time doing google search using the studio laptop. 

Punch Card for the month of June

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Date: June 11 - 13

Monday June 11 Tuesday June 12 Wednesday June 13

All mornings spent teaching Holiday Program students. Need less guidance from senior teachers. Beginning to get comfortable in the studios and with the students. Situations get stressful when students show up with no prior notice to the school, hence becoming an extra student for the hour. 

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Date: June  9 - 10

Saturday June 9th 2018

Permanent class on Saturdays. Slow and steady teaching time with students so as to get to know them better.

Studio routine 3 classes on weekends, rotation of washing (palette, brushes and water buckets) and studio closing for students. 

Sunday June 10th 2018

Replacing T. Moe’s Sunday class. Studio duties rotation is practiced as well.  30 minutes brainstorming of ideas for students participating in exhibition. 

Getting used to conversing with parents and updating their children’s progress in class. 

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June 4 - 6

Monday June 4th Holiday Program Schedule.

Schedule contains information from teaching location to student information.  Studios 1 - 3 are used to teach students from Little Blossoms category (ages 3 - 6) and Junior Picasso category (ages 7 - 9). Each studio has a maximum of 3-4 teachers. Each teacher is assigned to teach 4 students at max.  Students in Holiday Program may come from a regular class in Little Artist. Some students in the Holiday Program are new to Little Artists and art school. Some students in Holiday Program have attended several Holiday Programs in Little Artists for the past years. 

Holiday Program classes starts at 10AM till 12PM. Some students attend an hour class, while others attend 2 hour classes. Students attend up to 6 classes while others attend 4 classes. Students with 6 classes are expected to complete 4 projects, while students who attend 4 classes are expected to complete 3-4 projects. 1 project may take as early as 1 class to complete, or 2 classes, depending on the speed and capability of the student.

Students are expected to work on an acrylic project for the first class, so that a picture with their complete work can be taken and printed out for them to keep.  Projects done are focused on the projects displayed on the walls of the classroom as the objective and duration for the project to be done was crafted specially for students in the Holiday Program. 

Monday 4th June HP Schedule

Tuesday June 5th HP Schedule

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Date: July 28 - 31

Saturday July 28th Sunday July 29th Monday July 30th Tuesday July 31st

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May 28, 30, June 2 & 3

Holiday Program Update (Meeting with teachers from every studio): A meeting to update teachers on the various projects speacialized for HP which are divided into the 3 levels. The three levels are L1 ( age 3) L2 (age 4) L3 (age 5) L4 (age 6) JP1 (age 7) JP2 (age 8/9).

Different projects require different techniques and methods of teaching based on students’ capabilities. 

HP classes started. HP students has separate Update sheets (a form to update the students’ works and progress).  HP Classes are held from 9Am - 11AM.

Holiday Program Project Update // Projects hung on the wall for students’ easy reference

Special Skills Sculpture Making Project

Special Skills Sculpture Making Project - Doll House

Special Skills Project House Relief Painting

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May 26 & 27

May 26  Partial Takeover of Kamil’s class. Handover documentation was done with Kamil. Handling of students is better, students produce good works and communicates with me well.

May 27 Complete takeover of Moe’s class. Students are easy to handle and are very sweet. Communicates well with me. Updated students’ parents over their children’s works and progress, as well as self introduction for taking over Moe’s class during her maternity leave. 

Student Update File

Student Projects Folder