University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, March 4, 1980
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Mike isn't sure he takes to the idea of string painting as he watches Kelly, under Carmen's patient encouragement, drag her pieces of yarn into a glow- in-the-wire!
Tots wiggle through active class
By LYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
Being part of a circle is no simple matter if you're
and a half years old. It isn't always easy if you
can't keep it up.
It means being able to see where there is an empty space between two other kids. Being bold enough to walk right up and take a strange hand. Being able to follow instructions. No easy matter.
But the circle is the point of beginning and end in a one-hour class each Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a group of tots known as the Wee Wizulers.
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department dreamed up Wee Wilgins as a service to mothers who take a morning exercise class at the Community Building. The women leave their little ones in the教室, teachers Dekwyn Kawks, Ruth Dickey and Carmen McGraw at the next hour, their children will be happy and happy.
ITS FRIDAY, creative movement day. Beeky arrives in the spacious, orange-carpeted playroom and gears herself up psychologically, planning to get out. "Stop . . . Go!" calculated to drain off excess water.
After shedding parkas and boots, the wigglers—winter morning comfort personnel in flannel sleepwear—grab their sticks.
"Okay, now run as fast as you can all over the room," they're told. "don't just stumble in anyone
At the "G" go声 they're off like wind-up toys,
ratually zooming in all directions, making
soundless noise.
At the "stop" signal they freeze, look at each other, giggle by how silly and clever they are.
THEY ITS' time to pretend, time to let the creative juices flow without anyone telling you to
So Becky tells the wigglers to be a butterfly—not
to act like one, but to be one. Eight delicate,
graceful butterflies take to the sky.
"Now, let's be boiling water." And the room is awash with lacey, foamine, bubbler children.
"Now, let's be cars," Aah, a chance to beep and vroomm, screech and reel. But there is a casualty. Rebecca is hit by another car-child and becomes a properly comforted she is whole and new again.
The wighters become crabs, on the crab legs backward around the floor. And bears, on the crab legs, are crawling.
TIME TO GET back in the circle, but watt! Wike is still a butterfly, clinging to the pillar in the center of the room, watching. With urging, the last but closest to being aware who are now just Matthew Ernn, Bill Just kills.
To wind down, a story. Ruth holds the book so everyone can see it and Ready键s the wigglers gather. Silly hammers, too, and the circle gets to know all the animals that animals are born and butterfly metamorphose. The lesson is punctuated by an occasional whisper: "Well, I've seen that when my
Finally a pair of mom-eyes pee through the door, a winger lights the eyes, and is over for the dress.
MONDAY, TUMBLING. The wiggers today get
control of their muscle on control a soft
sheath and blue-black strap.
But first, into the circle for warm-ups as the band sings "I'm here," the knees. Bibs like him with his pug legs so he can feel these old good knees. Brian is distracted by a fine-looking Spiderman shirt, almost as nice as his own hair.
then, down to business. At a time the wiggiers make their way across the mat doing what they do in the wilderness.
along, four somersaults in a row and even dizzy.
But some wiggle need a gentle. Firm shave to be
smooth.
Kelly, arms glued to her sides and clenched knuckles turning white, hats meticulously from one beige stripe to another, careful not to fall in the river by stepping on a blue stripe. She makes it.
And with each success, grins of unabashed self-
delight bloom.
WEDNESDAY, ART. Big, old tables, it doesn't matter if anything spills. Plain tablecloth. blouse of the day.
In smokes, oversized T-shirts and aprons, the wigglers learn about string painting. Carman, who has spent his life drawing with supportive commentary, when David hops on on his chair and waves his bright, dripping picture for all to see.
One wiggle draws a rainbow and raindrops catch on, springing up all around. In a solitary mood, clings to his purple crayon and covers sheets of purple with circle purple and azure Aztec designs.
AS THE WICGLERS finish their works (and they work) they take them to futh to hung. They watch with pride and poke a tack in now and then to the back in hand in every place. They head for the back in hand in every place.
S little bodies huddle around the conveniently low sink, scrubbing hard in the soothing warm water and with the big pink soap bar, pulling rough brown tweets from the enormous roll on the wall. It's such fun for these wigglers return to their cabin, where their fingers until spotted and "forced" to wash again.
A week with the Wee Wigglers. They have used their muscles, their voices, their minds, and maybe even honed their social skills. Best of all, their mothers have had the chance to do the same.
The day closes with the wiggers taken in the wonders of baby animal growth as Ruth holds a picture book and Becky reads. Young faces mirror the awe and disbelief new friends learn.
Mike finds tumbling and creative movement boring, but soft brushes and pot of color make him blossom. Here he turns out the first in a series of bright work that will soon
Photos by WES ORZECHOWSKI
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