A week of amazing Arts Integration, student academic and creative
excellence, and learning!
The lab was closed due to testing this week, so I loaded up
a cart and took our STEAM activities on the road!
We started the week with Ms. Leal’s 1st grade Eco-Schools
USA Monarch Heroes sharing their Monarch Odes with musical accompaniment for
the Monday Meeting. This is their independent application of the Da Camera
Greek Odes Music Encounter they had just a couple of weeks ago. The K-2 Name
That Books students recorded a couple more book reviews in the TV studio and Da
Camera percussion artist Mr. Brady arrived for the 2nd grade
Recycled Orchestra Music Encounter – all of this before 9:00 a.m.!
Kinder and 1st grade created mini milk carton
film strip viewers. K turned our read-aloud, Jon Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back
into their own mini movie and was introduced to Scratch Jr while 1st
grade summarized their Monarch Hero researches into a mini documentary! A few
more 1st graders graduated their Code.org course too!
2nd grade made their own cuicas – we asked our always
supportive cafeteria manager, Ms. Telfah to save cans and then assembled the
traditional Brazilian instrument with a nail, a skewer, and some tape! They learned
about the instrument during their Da Camera Recycled Orchestra Music Encounter
and were thrilled to make their own!
3rd grade did some research on BrainPOP and
learned to employ nested loops in Code.org while 4th grade started
work on their interactive zoo project.
Thursday our 3-5 Name That Book team had their contest –
they have done a great job creating digital projects for their reading and also
filming reviews for the morning announcements!
Friday, Da Camera brought the Butterfly Ballet Music
Encounter to 4 of our Monarch Hero classrooms – the other 4 will have their
turn next week. This experience is one of the highlights of their year-long
project. We are so grateful to the incredible talented musicians that bring our
curriculum alive through their music!
I can’t wait to see what next week’s groups make!
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