Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Drama club fun!

Enjoying a "mirror" activity while learning to respond to others around you on stage.


Each Tuesday at lunchtime the talented Mrs. Von Reis and I work with a large group of excited performers to develop acting and drama skills. For the first four weeks we have engaged in lots of enjoyable game structures to prepare for our first informal scene work. Soon our actors, ranging in grades from first through sixth, will be putting words to their actions and expressing emotion with all of their tools of performance. It is a lot of fun and it brings a balance to our school and our young children.
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