{"id":196,"date":"2014-04-16T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/04\/16\/abrakadoodle-marine-parade-where-art-is-more-than-meets-the-eye\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:18:48","slug":"abrakadoodle-marine-parade-where-art-is-more-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifestinymiracles.com\/2014\/04\/abrakadoodle-marine-parade-where-art-is-more-than-meets-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrakadoodle Marine Parade – where Art is more than meets the eye…"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was a regular yet irregular weekday afternoon – while I was at work and the wife was held up in office too (it was both our hectic season). When she finally stepped home, she was pleasantly surprised to see Dana quietly drawing at the dining table – she was midway through her personal rendition of Piere Auguste Renoir’s ‘Auvers sur Oise’, tracing the lines which would eventually be the rolling landscape dotted with lush green trees accentuated by white fluffy clouds against the blue sky. The wife promptly equipped her with her paintbrush and water colour and before long…what was once a white piece of drawing paper became a snapshot of a French countryside.<\/p>\n
Looking at it when I returned from work that evening, though it was far from the original, for me as a parent, the value of it far exceeds that of an actual Renoir.<\/p>\n
Such is the value of these enrichment activities – to empower, to equip, to expose<\/strong>. We will never know when these lessons will eventually be part of your child’s psyche, empowering your child to meaningfully engage in a constructive activity to create, offering her an alternative medium of creative expression.<\/p>\n We enrolled Dana in Abrakadoodle<\/a> programmes since she was 2. It used to be weekly art class but due to scheduling issues, we now could afford to send her during the vacation breaks. Abrakadoodle <\/a>is one of the few holiday enrichment programmes we have consistently sent her for the past few years. The approaches adopted in Abrakadoodle<\/a> resonate with our outlook towards an arts enrichment class which are:<\/p>\n 1) Benchmarking with the best
2) Age-appropriate and student-centred teaching
3) Collaborative teaching and learning strategies
4) Character building
5) Providing rigour through exhibition
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