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Erika J Glazer Early Childhood Center
Erika J Glazer Early Childhood Center

3663 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Brawerman Elementary School - West
Mann Family Early Childhood Center

11661 W Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Resnick Family Early Childhood Center
Resnick Family Early Childhood Center

11960 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90049

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Learning Through Art

Art and music play a central role in how children explore, communicate, and make meaning. Creative experiences invite students to experiment, observe, and express their ideas in ways that feel natural. Through hands-on materials, shared music-making, and guided exploration, creativity becomes a daily language for learning.

 

Building Confidence 

In the arts, children find a world to explore with all their senses. Each brushstroke, note, and gesture becomes a choice, a voice, or a story. Here, we celebrate curiosity and experimentation and honor individual ideas.

Highlights of Arts & Music at the ECCs:

  • Weekly music and song led by teachers, cantors, and specialists.

  • Dedicated ateliers that fully engage the creative process, learning through immersive materials exploration and thoughtful reflection.
  • Through song, movement, and narrative, children experience tradition as living, breathing, and participatory. Music and art bring heritage to life, connecting children to Jewish culture, values, and community.
  • Learning is enriched through creative expression.
  • Emphasis on the process, where confidence grows alongside curiosity.

 

Music & Movement with Meaning

Weekly music sessions bring classrooms to life with rhythm, song, and story. Children sing Hebrew and English songs, clap to the beat, and dance with their friends. Cantors and music specialists often join the classrooms, weaving Jewish traditions and familiar holiday melodies into the mix. Beyond the fun, children are building language, coordination, and confidence, one verse and one dance step at a time.

 

A Culture of Creativity

Our ateliers (art studios) hum with curiosity. Children follow the rhythm of their own ideas; they converse with color, texture, and form, guided by wonder.

Every act of making is an expression, question, or discovery, and teachers celebrate the process as the heart of learning.

 

Everyday Expression


Creativity lives in the in-between moments of the day. Art and music are woven through children’s experiences, often emerging where learning is already unfolding. Rhythm and clapping invite counting. A study of plants opens into observational drawings or watercolor paintings of the garden. A holiday becomes a shared language of song and sound.

These experiences are not separate from learning; they are part of how children make meaning of the world around them. Through their bodies, their senses, and their relationships with one another, children explore, revisit, and transform ideas.