Kaleidoscope Art Foundation to hold 6th Annual Kaleidoscopic Jamboree this Saturday!

The Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation (KAF) will host their 6th annual

Kaleidoscopic Jamboree fundraiser this Saturday, May 12th at their premises on

Jubilee Road in Devonshire from 9.30am until 3pm

Organizers have planned a fun family event which will bring literacy to life

in the beautiful KAF garden space. The event will help to support the

Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation and their important Creative Minds curriculum

enrichment program in Bermuda’s public Pre and Primary Schools.

Parents and children will have the opportunity to listen to 6 unique books be

read in a story tent and then brought to life in the KAF garden. Using books

that are beautifully and skillfully illustrated with rich, meaningful

literature, is the nucleus for the Jamboree. KAF teachers will interpret and

create arts and craft activities and games around these books which is magic

to watch! Books that will be read at the Jamboree this year include: Escargot,

Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later), Octavius the Octopus, What a

Wonderful World Hardcover, The Little Island and Sonya’s Chickens.

The Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation’s love of combining literature into lessons

at and wanting to make this more obvious at the Jamboree led to a natural

partnership with the Reading Clinic.

Fiona Rodriguez Roberts stated, “We are thrilled to have The Reading Clinic

join us this year and I am looking forward to seeing what they will have

available at their tent! I know it will be hands on!”

Guests can also enjoy arts and crafts, games and prizes, sensory play areas,

and loose part spaces for toddlers. Yummy baked goods, sandwiches, cold drinks

and a cake walk will be available for purchase. A $5 entry fee will be charged

per person. For more information, contact the office at KAF on 542-9000 or

info@kaf.bm.

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Quotes from Fiona Rodriguez Roberts

“This event brings together everything that is KAF! A safe and age

appropriate event full of learning easily hidden in art and play, showing off

our amazing staff, board members and volunteers in our beautiful and thriving

garden and building.”

“Every year we rise to the challenge of narrowing down the book search to

‘only 6’ amazing books to bring to the Jamboree! We believe that in order for

children to develop rich and extensive vocabulary they must be read rich and

beautifully crafted stories from birth! These stories will develop their

curiosity, empathy, memory skills, concentration and communication. At KAF

when we pair that lovely language from books with a childs natural first

language of art and play then we bring a deeper learning to them.”

More about the books that will be read at the Jamboree:

Escargot

Get your French accents ready, because Escargot is a snail with unmistakable

charm. Children will love this interactive story about a dashing little snail

who wants to be a child’s favorite animal. And who wouldn’t choose the snail?

He’s beautiful, (just look at that shell!), he leaves shimmery trails of

“shimmery stuff,” and he can pull off a teeny tiny beret like nobody else.

Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

For Sarah and Susan, a visit to their great-great-aunt Flossie is a literal

and figurative feast. After tea and cookies, and before crabcakes, they are

permitted to look through Aunt Flossie’s prodigious collection of hats and try

on their favorites. ``Each hat has its story,’’ says Aunt Flossie.

Octavius the Octopus

A charming story that centers around an Octopus called Octavius who cares for

the fish in his aquarium tank when his owner Zachariah breaks his leg and has

to go to the hospital.

What a Wonderful World Hardcover

Hopgood interprets this beloved ballad, written by Thiele and Weiss and made

famous by Louis Armstrong. His colorful mixed-media collages present a hopeful

world, filled with summery trees, sunny blue skies, and pastoral scenes from

around the globe.

The Little Island

As seasons change, days and nights pass, and storms come and go, life changes

on the little island, but the little island is steady through it all. One

summer day, a kitten sails over with some people on a picnic and spends the

day prowling around.

When the kitten belittles the island for being so small and unimportant, the

island sends him to a fish who helps him see that, even though the island

seems small, it’s truly a part of the bigger world.

Sonya’s Chickens

Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds

them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are

peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give

Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the

chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the

hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns

some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys

and sorrows of caring for another creature.