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Arts a la Carte Department of Visual & Performing Arts April 2016—May 2016
Westfield Public Schools Westfield New Jersey
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4/6/16 WHS / EIS / RIS Choral Night @ WHS Auditorium 4/7/16 Washington 4th & 5th grade Band 4/25/16 Franklin Advanced Band 4/27/16 WHS Chamber Music Night @ First United Methodist Church – 7:30 pm
4/27/16 Tamaques 4th grade Band – 6:45 pm 4/27/16 Tamaques 5th grade Band & Chorus – 7:30 pm 5/3/16 Wilson Band 5/5/16 Franklin Intermediate Band 5/11/16 Franklin Chorus 5/11/16 Jefferson Band & Chorus 5/14/16 WHS / EIS / RIS Jazz Night @ WHS Courtyard – 5:30 pm (Saturday) 5/16/16 McKinley Advanced Band & Chorus 5/18/16 McKinley Intermediate Band 5/19/16 Washington Chorus 5/19/16 Wilson Chorus 5/21/15 WHS May-Hem 5/23/16 All Elementary Intermediate Strings @ EIS 5/24/16 All Elementary Beginner Strings @ EIS 5/25/16 WHS Chorus – 7:30 pm 6/1/16 All City Festival @ WHS Auditorium – 7:30 pm 6/3/16 WHS Orchestra – 7:30 pm 6/7/16 WHS Jazz / Percussion @ WHS Auditorium – 7:30 pm 6/8/16 EIS Concert – 7th Gr. Chorus & 6th & 8th Gr. Orchestra - 7:30 pm 6/8/16 RIS Concert – 6th, 7th & 8th Gr. Concert Bands 6/9/16 EIS Concert – 6th & 7th Gr. Bands - 7:30 pm 6/9/16 RIS Concert – All Jazz Ensembles 6/13/16 WHS Band – 7:30 pm 6/14/16 EIS Concert – 6th Gr. Chorus, 7th Gr. Orchestra & Chamber - 7:30 pm 6/14/16 RIS Concert – 6th & 8th Gr. Chorus 6/14/16 RIS Concert – 6th & 8th Gr. Orchestra – 8:00 pm 6/15/16 EIS Concert – 8th Gr. Band & Chorus, Broadway Singers & Jazz Band - 7:30 pm 6/15/16 RIS Concert – 7th Gr. Chorus, Sharps and Flats 6/15/16 RIS Concert – 7th Gr. Orchestra & Early Morning Orchestra – 8:00 pm
District Art Show Opens May 10! Come experience the District Art Show in a new interactive way this year!
The goal of the Westfield Visual Arts Department is to develop an awareness and appreciation of the visual arts in every learner, from grades pre-kindergarten through twelve. It has been proven many times in many different ways
that the arts are an essential educational component. The arts help children better comprehend the basic studies of
language, math and science. Annually, district art educators convert the Westfield High School gymnasium into an art gallery of work created by pre-K-12 students. Visitors are always amazed by the quality of work our art teachers
encourage the students to create. You will find graphic art pieces, sculptures (both large and small) ceramics, charcoal and pencil drawings, watercolors, fabric arts, painted furniture and so much more.
Beginning May 10 we invite you to come and enjoy the redesigned show with a true museum experience. The show
is open to the public on May 10 and 11 from 9:00AM - 9:00PM and on May 13 from 9:00AM – 2:00PM.
In coordination with Youth Art Month,
RMC Studios in Garwood is hosting an Open House for the general public to view student artwork in unique
gallery settings. The evening of Art and Music at RMC, 207 Center Street in Garwood will be held on
Friday, April 1 From 6PM to 8PM
ALL CONCERTS BEGIN AT 7:00 PM unless
otherwise noted
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Westfield
High School Art
Ceramics 1 students are all pinch potted out! We spent most of the
second semester so far creating
various pinch pot forms. Students were introduced to white talc clay,
versa-clay, red clay, white stoneware clay, and raku clay. We
discussed the different clay bodies
and compared the texture, color and hardness of each clay while
creating pinch pots and decorating them. Students also learned how
to correctly join pieces of clay
together by adding faces to their pinch pots and joining two pinch
pots together. The pictures show our last pinch pot project….cute
presents that will be brightly glazed and displayed at the District
Art Show!
Students in Crafts Exploration are finishing up the sculpture unit.
The final sculpture project is stone carving. Students had to pick their
stone based on what object they thought they saw in the raw stone.
Just like Michelangelo, students
had to bring that object out of the stone using various carving tools,
rasps and sandpaper. Once the sculpture is complete, we start
buffing and polishing it using
pumice powder and butcher’s wax. The final product will be super
smooth and shiny. Be sure to check out the final sculptures at
the District Art Show in May!
Foundations of Art students are
continuing their exploration of the Elements and Principles of Art and
recently finished up color scheme
self-portraits (pictured below). A color scheme is a rational
arrangement or combination of colors. Students learned about a
variety of color schemes, including
achromatic, monochromatic, analogous, complementary and
triadic color schemes to name a few, as well as how to apply those
color schemes in a work of art.
Moreover, students studied how
color schemes impact their own
lives, through clothing choices, interior design and within
advertisements. Having learned how to appropriately mix different
values, tints, shades and tones,
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students have transitioned into landscape painting. Building on
compositional theories, such as the rules of thirds and odds and ideas
developed by the Hudson River School painters, landscape
paintings are well underway!
Students start with an underpainting, an initial layer of
paint to set up major elements/features of the painting
and the different values visible.
Many works of art from both projects and the countless others
throughout the year will be displayed at the District Art Show
in May.
Drawing students in Happe-Conway’s classes have just finished
up a large mixed media drawing
unit. They explored creating and then developing a drawing on a
prepared surface for a homework piece. Students were exposed to
works by the Wyeth family of
artists, N.C, Andrew and Jamie. After seeing how illustrator
Howard Pyle’s influenced each generation of Wyeths, they were
challenged to work expressively with their mixed media. They
experienced building a piece in
layers.
Students used watercolor, gouache and pastels to carve out space.
They incorporated observed text into their works. Drawing students
are now working on perspective, value and refining their
observational seeing using
sighting.
Congratulations to sophomore,
Darika Lara-Rodriguez whose
artwork was chosen for this year’s Spring Concert program cover. The
covers will be used district wide,
for all the upcoming Spring Concerts.
Composition students are
working on acrylic paintings in
class. Homework assignments continue to challenge their
knowledge of intentional arrangement of space while
working with personal imagery. Students created tunnel books
trying to develop actual depth and
physical objects incorporating strong composition. They have just
investigated illuminated manuscripts and complex patterns in historical
design; The Book of Kells,
Carolinian manuscripts, Indian miniatures, Alphonse Mucha and
William Morris. They will work with
the inspiration of these artists to create small gouache paintings, full
of patterns to activate the negative space and to help tell the story of
their subject.
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Art IV students have just finished a faux stained glass assignment,
with beautiful results. They have been studying individual master
paintings and breaking down the historical use of armatures to see
how the artist composed the piece.
An original work of art will be created using the armature
knowledge gained by closely studying these works of art. Art IV
students will again be working in a
self-directed focus, developing works for potential inclusion in this
year’s art show.
World Crafts Sampler students
have completed original artworks using dry needle felting
techniques; the use of dyed raw wool applied with a barbed needle
to interlock the wool to the felt fabric backing creating the design.
Design, color theory/color schemes
and hand sewing techniques are also included in this unit.
The Craft students are presently tooling/embossing metal foils
(repoussé) and assembling the metal foils into wind chimes,
mobiles, covers for journals or bells… feverishly working towards
the Westfield Annual District Art
Show in May, which will exhibit the works of art!
Music
The students in Mixed Chorus have
been preparing their pieces for the upcoming spring concert and have
been working on elements of sight singing, ear training, music theory
and vocal technique. Some of the
highlights of the Mixed Chorus performance will be a choral piece
composed using the text of I Dream a World, a Langston
Hughes poem and Simon and
Garfunkel’s Bridge over Troubled Water. On March 4th, students in Concert
Choir and Bella Cora attended an Indian vocal music workshop led
by Hemant Kulkarni, owner of the Svara Sangham School for
Hindustani Vocal music training in South Brunswick. The WHS
students were treated to a performance and lecture related to
the characteristics of Indian music.
The treble chorus will be performing an Indian raga in the
spring called Palaanda.
The choral department welcomes
Mr. Lee Mamolen to the choral department. Mr. Mamolen is a
student teacher from Rutgers who will be working with the students
daily until the end of April. Additionally, Ms. Maureen Francis
continues to work with the
students weekly in sectionals and full group instruction.
The Concert Choir was treated to a
masterclass by Hofstra University
choral music professor, Dr. Fryling on February 25. The students
received feedback from Dr. Fryling and made significant strides in
their short amount of time with
him. Dr. Fryling will be back visiting both the Concert Choir and
Chorale on April 5.
Choral Festivals The students in Concert Choir will
be performing at the Summit
Hilltopper Choral festival, open to the public, on the evening of April
21st at Summit High School. The WHS Concert Choir will be joined
by several local NJ high schools.
The groups will perform for each other and receive feedback from
choral music educators. On May 17th, the students in Treble Chorus
and Concert Choir will attend the American Choral Directors
Association (ACDA) high school
choral festival at Rutgers. We know that these experiences will
have an enormous impact on student growth.
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District Choral Night The first ever District Choral Night
will be held in the Westfield High School Theater on April 6th. The
night will include performances by seventh and eighth grade singers
from both intermediate schools as
well as several high school choral ensembles. The night will
culminate in a combined number with over 250 singers from grades
7-12!
WHS Chamber Music Night
The WHS Music department will hold its first ever Chamber Music
Night on April 27th at the First United Methodist Church. The
evening will feature small group
performances from the band and orchestra departments as well as
the WHS Chorale.
WHS Orchestra
The 3rd marking period of the school year is upon us and the
WHS Orchestras are busy at work with performances and trips
quickly filling up the schedule. On
February 26th, the Chamber Orchestra went with the WHS
Wind Ensemble to demonstrate instruments and perform for the
students of Jefferson, McKinley and Tamaques. The Chamber
Orchestra will continue the second
leg of our tour on April 8th at Washington, Wilson and Franklin
schools.
On February 27th, members of the
String and Chamber Orchestras that will be going to Boston,
Massachusetts in April, performed a fundraising concert at the 1st
Methodist Church of Westfield. The group performed pieces that they
have been preparing for their trip
to Boston, including Karl Jenkins’ Palladio. Afterwards, there was a
light reception where community members and concertgoers were
able to meet and greet with the
performers. All in all, it was a successful evening and the
students were able to raise close to $700. The trip to Boston will be
during our Spring Break from April 14th – 17th, 2016.
In class, our students are working on their Spring Concert music. The
Spring Orchestra Concert will be held on Friday June 3rd, 2016. In
addition, the Chamber Orchestra
will be taking part in the 1st Annual WHS Chamber Music Concert on
April 27th. The concert will feature small student-led groups made of
members from the WHS Chorale, the WHS Chamber Orchestra and
the WHS Bands. The students
have been hard at work and are looking forward to putting on some
wonderful concerts.
Photo from February 27th Concert
WHS Concert Bands
The WHS Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestras gave a special
performance at Jefferson, McKinley and Tamaques schools on
February 26th. The audiences
especially enjoyed hearing “Imperial March” from the Star
Wars films. As part of the presentation, WHS students
introduced each of the instruments
to the elementary children. They will continue the second leg of the
tour on April 8th at Washington, Wilson and Franklin schools.
On Thursday, March 17th, the WHS
Concert Bands traveled to the annual CJMEA State Concert Band
Festival held at Ridge High School.
The Concert Band and Symphonic Band both received a Silver Rating
in Division II. The Wind Ensemble received a Gold Rating in Division I
for the 5th consecutive year. The Wind Ensemble will perform at the
Kimmel Center for the Performing
Arts in Philadelphia, PA on May 24th. In preparation for both of
these festivals, the Wind Ensemble had opportunities to rehearse with
several guest clinicians: Mr. Denny
Stokes, a retired music teacher from Fairfax, VA; Mr. Adam
Warshafsky, Assistant Conductor of the Eastern Wind Symphony
and Dr. David Vickerman, Director
of Bands at TCNJ.
Congratulations to 11th grade
trumpet player, Dale Beyert on
winning the 2016 WHS Concerto Competition! He will perform
Fantaisie Brillante along with the
Wind Ensemble at the spring band concert on June 13th at 7:30 pm.
All-State Band
Congratulations to Dale Beyert
Trumpet - Wind Ensemble
Michael Hauge Eb Clarinet - Symphonic Band
and
Matthew Schiff Contra Clarinet- Symphonic Band
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Dale, Michael and Matthew were selected to the 2016 All-State
Bands. They performed at the NJ
Performing Arts Center in Newark on February 20th.
Jazz Bands
The Jazz Ensemble and Stage
Bands once again performed at the
Westfield Rotary Club Annual “Breakfast with the Bands” on
Saturday March 19th. They also played at several jazz festivals
throughout the spring, including
the Scotch Plains Jazz Festival and the Rutgers University Jazz Day.
The annual Jazz Night will be held on Saturday, May 14th in the WHS
Courtyard. Stop by for performances “under the stars” by
the RIS, EIS and WHS jazz students.
WHS Jazz is pleased to announce that NYC saxophonist and
composer, Todd Groves (pictured below), will be joining the 3 WHS
Jazz Bands at their Spring Jazz
Concert on Tuesday, June 7th. Todd specializes in saxophones,
flutes, clarinets, recorders and ethnic flutes. Currently, he teaches
saxophone at the University of Delaware and plays in the pit for
Aladdin the Musical on Broadway.
WHS Winterguard Under the direction of Danny
Matos, the WHS Winter Guard has traveled to competitions in
Hillsborough, South Brunswick, Somerville and Plainfield. So far,
they have placed among the top
groups in the Novice Class. They hope to continue their success
heading into the Mid-Atlantic Indoor Network Championships at
South Brunswick High School on
April 16th.
Marching Band
There will be an interest meeting for any prospective 2016 marching band members (including current 8th graders) on Monday, April 25th at 7:30 pm in WHS’ Cafeteria B. Those attending should park in the rear parking lot and enter the school through the back entrance closest to Rahway Avenue. Hope to see you there!
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This fall, the WHS Marching Blue Devils will debut a BRAND NEW
LOOK! Thanks to the Westfield Community who rallied around this
project and secured the funds for the 2015 5A National Champions!
Special thanks to: Maria Kostyack & Sabrina Model
BPA Fundraising Chairs
Albert Paglialunga - BPA Member Barry Schnepf - BPA President
Heather Bryant - BPA Vice President
The Westfield Foundation
The Education Fund of Westfield The Westfield Coalition for the Arts
The Westfield Police Athletic
League The Rotary Club of Westfield
The Optimist Club of Westfield
For more information regarding the Westfield High School Bands or affiliated groups, please see our website at: www.westfieldhsbands.org
Drama
The Westfield High School drama
students are once again engaged in furthering their studies of the
world of theatre. In Drama 1, the
students have just completed an investigation of Roman Theatre
and its contributions to world theatre. In addition to the
historical aspects of the period, the students also examined the
specific elements from the time
period still seen in contemporary theatre via the performance of
scenes from Rumors, a comedy by Neil Simon.
The Drama 2 students are also exploring the world of comedy,
focusing on physical comedy and the Commedia dell’Arte. This study
included an exploration of the use
of mask work. All of the students created their own Commedia mask
and will conclude their study with an original performance of
commedia inspired scenes.
In Drama 3, the students are
preparing for the annual Bucks County Student One Act Play
Festival, where they will perform on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.
This year those performances will
be scenes from The Odd Couple (the Female Version), by Neil
Simon, The Actor’s Nightmare, by Christopher Durang and Baby with the Bathwater, by Christopher
Durang.
WHS students are also continuing their exploration of the world of
theatre behind the scenes in the newly developed Stagecraft
course. The students are engaged
in learning the various jobs that exist in the technical theatre and
the numerous employment opportunities they present.
Currently, the students are
learning the fundamentals of lighting design and its various
applications within the theatrical production process. This unit will
conclude with student pairs
reading a play and then designing a lighting plan for the show.
Into the Woods
The Westfield High School Theatre Department presented Into the Woods, the Tony award winning
musical by Stephen Sondheim, as their Spring Musical production this
March.
The production was extremely
successful and played to packed houses for all performances and
ended each with standing ovations. Featuring over 130
student actors, technicians and musicians, the production clearly
demonstrated the myriad talents of
the WHS fine arts students and their various disciplines. Based
upon the reactions of the audience members each night, this
production continued the level of
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professionalism and excellence that the WHSTD has become
known for. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this
outstanding production.
Roosevelt
Intermediate
Art
The 6th graders in Mrs. Cohen's
class just completed a unit on clay. They learned the slab, coil and
pinch methods and now will
begin the glazing process. Everyone created a utilitarian piece
that is stunning!
After learning 1 point perspective last marking period, Mrs. Cohen’s
7th graders are now creating a 2
point perspective cityscape. It can be imaginary or "real".
The 8th graders in Mrs. Cohen’s
class are completing their painted
furniture project. Chairs, stools, tables, skateboards, baseball bats,
desks, crates and even a sled are all eye candy!
The 6th graders in Mr. Thompson’s
class have just begun studying Van
Gogh. We had an interesting discussion on the artist’s life and
art, looking at many paintings and ink drawings. We focused on his
expressive use of line, noting how
he was able to use line to show mood, texture and even time of
day. We also studied the elements that make up a landscape:
foreground, middle ground and
background, as well as atmospheric perspective. Students
then set about drawing their own landscape based on examples of
Van Gogh’s work and resources from the Internet. We have filled
up our drawings with a wide
Photo: Into the Woods
variety of textural line in Sharpie and are now in the process of
painting over the permanent marker with watercolors.
Seventh grade students in Mr. Thompson’s classes have just
completed a graffiti lesson. Following a very interesting
discussion on street art, students were challenged to design their
own “tag”: a highly stylized and
colorful name design. After viewing many different styles of tags, we
noted the many differences and the similar elements. Students
were able to base their tag on
their own name, a nickname, or another word of their choice. The
results were dramatic and colorful!
The 8th grade arts and crafts students with Mr. Thompson are
working on a crayon scratchboard project. The subject is animals or
sea creatures. Students drew,
carefully and realistically, the animal of their choice in its native
habitat. They then applied layers of heavy crayon in bright,
fantastical colors. Finally a layer of black was added on top, and
carefully scratched off to create
various textures. The finished compositions are very dramatic
and colorful!
Mr. Thompson’s art club has been working on a large group sculpture
based on Dale Chihuly’s, the art of
glass art. We are assembling a large mobile that is made up of
many individual pieces. We used marker and paint to color a variety
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of plastic “junk”: water bottles, cups, bowls and sheets of acetate.
We then used a heat gun to melt and distort the objects so they
took on a new, abstracted form. We are in the process of attaching
these forms one at a time to an
armature made of chicken wire. It’s huge! We will be hanging it up
in the downstairs entrance way as soon as it’s finished.
Music RIS Bands
It has been a busy couple of months for the RIS band program!
The 6th graders have sight read
and chosen their spring concert repertoire and are now in the
process of learning this music. In addition, they have spent time
practicing five of their major
scales. They have learned the importance of practicing these and
other exercises regularly, because a consistent practice routine is the
most efficient way to improve skills, in any discipline.
The 7th graders just performed the chamber pieces they have been
working on. The percussion
ensemble and brass ensemble put on a combined performance on
March 17 in the auditorium. “Spanish Flavour”, “Stick Beats”
and “Polka” were the selections performed by the percussion
ensemble and the brass ensemble
closed the concert with their rendition of Michael Jackson’s
“Thriller”. The woodwinds also performed on this day. The
saxophone ensemble performed
“Elegy” by Tchaikovsky, followed by the clarinet ensemble’s
“Symphony No. 40” by Mozart. The flute ensemble closed out the
concert by performing “Pizzicato Polka” and “A-Rovin”. Playing in
chamber ensembles is an excellent
way for students to improve their skills and responsibility, because of
how small the groups are. Each individual is responsible to the rest
of the group to be prepared and
perform at a high level and these students certainly did that. Ms.
Minogue and Mr. Doyle are very proud of all their hard work!
The 8th grade band has also spent time working on chamber music. A
few of the 8th grade quintets recently performed a “mini-
concert” for the RIS faculty at our monthly meeting and the staff
loved it! Selections at this meeting
included “The Irish Washerwoman”, “The Can-Can”
and the theme from “The Simpsons”. The rest of the 8th
grade chamber ensemble
performed for their classmates and were coached by Mr. Doyle in a
workshop format. Many of these groups will be performing at our
Chamber Music Night on Tuesday, May 10.
The entire 8th grade band will be traveling to Freehold High School
on Thursday May 12 to participate in the annual CJMEA Concert Band
and Orchestra Festival. This event
features bands and orchestras from all over central New Jersey,
and students will have the opportunity to watch their peers
perform and be professionally adjudicated.
2016/2017 WHS Marching Band informational meeting - interested 8th graders please see
page 6 for more information.
RIS Jazz The RIS jazz ensembles have been
very busy! During the week of March 14, each ensemble (The
Naturals, Morning Jazz and The Accidentals) performed a “mini-
concert” before school. This was
an excellent chance for parents, teachers and fellow students to
hear all of the wonderful things these students are working on. All
three jazz ensembles then
performed to large, hungry crowds at the annual “Breakfast with the
Bands”, a scholarship fundraiser sponsored by the Westfield Rotary
Club. It was a wonderful morning,
featuring the jazz bands from Roosevelt, Edison and WHS. The
Edison Chamber Orchestra also performed.
On March 22, Mr. Doyle and Ms.
Minogue brought Morning Jazz and The Accidentals to the annual
“Terrill in Tempo” Jazz Festival at
Terrill Middle School in Scotch Plains. These groups played along
with seven other bands and were professionally adjudicated. Students
also had the chance to listen to bands from neighboring towns. It
is important that we support ALL
students involved in music, regardless of where they live!
It has been a fun and busy winter
and the spring is shaping up for much of the same! We hope to see
you at the spring concerts!
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RIS Chorus It has been a busy winter for the
RIS Vocal Music Department. In February we had our annual Black
History Month Assembly where our Sharps and Flats had the honor of
performing with the Newark Boys
Chorus under the direction of Donald Morris. We performed two
selections with them, “Raise it Up” and “Walk in Jerusalem”. Our
singers had an amazing experience
which they will always remember. We also had a wonderful weekend
in March performing our Spring Musical, Once on This Island. The
students did an outstanding job singing and acting and we had a
packed house for all three
performances.
The eighth grade chorus and Sharps and Flats have also been
preparing for the First District Choral Night. On April 6th the RIS,
EIS and High School groups will all
perform at WHS to showcase our talented students in a celebration
of Vocal music through the district. Fine Arts Day will close out Music
In Our Schools Month on March 24th. We had many students
audition for this annual event and
this year will showcase the talent of our students in a variety of
mediums. We look forward to a great day heading into our Eater
Weekend.
Drama
Congratulations to the Roosevelt 8th Grade Drama Students who
competed in the New Jersey Drama and Forensic League
Theatrefest 2016 on Saturday, March 19th. Students competed in
Comedic Monologues, Comedic
Pairs and Dramatic Monologues and performed in an improvisational
workshop performance. The team; Hope Banta, Sara Kirschner,
Vincent Mora, Julia Singer, Nina
Martini, Morgan Boll, Grace Dabulas, Eva Boyes, Talia
McRoberts, Natalia Hanchuk and Alexandra Sica pictured below is
coached by Kimberly Jonny. Bravo Team! Awards were given to the
following team members:
2nd Place Dramatic Monologue
Vincent Mora
4th Place Comedic Pairs Julia Singer and Nina Martini
5th Place Comedic Pairs
Eva Boyes and Talia McRoberts
Winners Improvisation Scene Performance
Nina Martini, Alexandra Sica and
Morgan Boll
Edison
Intermediate
Art The 6th grade students in Mrs.
Frees class are working on Egyptian Canopic Jars. They
worked either in groups of two or
alone. They had to use recycled objects, plaster and acrylic paint.
They are enjoying the process and connecting art to what they are
learning in their history class. This project connected well to the work
they did on drawing ellipses and
cylinders. They are continuing forward with cylinders in sculptural
form by making clay mugs. While they are making clay mugs, they
are learning the process of rolling a slab of clay and the technique of
attaching clay by scoring, slipping
and smoothing. These are all techniques they will need with
ceramics in their years here at EIS. Ms. Hooper’s classes are also
finishing clay mugs. They were
taught the proportions of the face and they applied these skills to
their mugs. They also worked hard at creating a proper handle for
their mug. The students in Ms. Hooper’s 6th grade class are
working on creating a Pop Art
inspired dessert. They are learning about Wayne Theibaud
and his diner paintings from the 1950’s.
Students in Mrs. Frees 8th grade
Fine arts class have been working on drawing skills and learning
about the Surrealist artists Dali, de Chirico, Miro and the influences of
Frida Kahlo. They are drawing a tree using various s line
techniques. They worked on a
lesson on positive negative space to draw a tree using texture. They
were to use hatching, crosshatching, stippling and some
shading when watercolor was
applied. They used the negative space to fit in objects and
creatures in the negative space. The students are now working
their way through the features, of
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the face eyes, nose, mouth and ears. They are to create each part
using a Surrealist style. They are then working on putting it all
together in a small portrait that will prepare them for the large Pop
art portrait. Students are also
working on a side project on deconstructed books. Mrs. Frees
took discarded books from the Clark library and is teaching the
students how to turn the books
into mixed media art. A selection from the books will be chosen to
be on display in the Clark library at the end of the school year.
Ms. Hooper Fine Arts classes worked on a 3 way Still Life pencil
drawing which incorporated three variations of drawing including
contour, value and crosshatching. They also worked on creating a
Mini Landscape using pen, ink,
water color and found objects. They are currently working on the
features of the face in Realism to prepare for the large Portrait
painting/drawing.
Ms. Hooper’s 8th grade crafts
classes have been working on a textile Collage inspired by the Pop
artist, Jasper Johns, which incorporated a patriotic theme.
They are using sewing skills built
in 7th grade and applying them to this project. Ms. Hooper’s period 2
Crafts class is also working on sewing skills and they are creating
a functional Pouch or Wallet from
various fabrics.
Students in Mrs. Frees 7th grade class have been working on skills
with perspective drawing. They
reviewed both two point and one point. They are creating boxes in
3D, they are drawing with two point perspective and then using a
needle and thread. They are
further exploring this concept making topographical maps out of
clay. We are rolling slabs of clay and then adding texture, coils in
clay and land formation. The students are enjoying the process
and are moving right into an exploration of gargoyles from the
Medieval period of art.
The students in Ms. Hooper’s class
will be starting this same project of
Gargoyles in clay. The students also finished a tapestry that
involved different methods of decorative stitching. This project is
inspired by the Medieval art period
and the Bayeaux Tapestry.
Music
EIS Bands have been hard at work on their individual skills as
well as preparing for their spring concert. Students have been
working on playing all of their
major scales and chorales in small, chamber groups. Students had
the chance to be their own teachers with students leading the
chamber groups. The 6th grade
band is preparing a wide variety of songs ranging from masterworks
like Stravinsky’s “Firebird” to up-tempo, modern pieces like
“Adrenaline Engines.” The 7th
grade band is working on the ballad, “With Quiet Region” as well
as Robert W. Smith’s exciting piece, “Encanto”.
Preparing for their annual Six Flags
festival, the 8th grade band is
working on a three movement piece entitled, “In The Forest Of
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The King” by Pierre La Plant. The piece features three traditional
French folk songs and the students are challenged to play in complex
time signatures with difficult rhythms.
The Jazz Band had a great performance at the Breakfast with the Bands fundraiser performance. Playing some hits like Van
Morrison’s, “Moon dance” and
Chicago’s, “25 or 6 to 4” the band showcased some of its outstanding
musicians who played both written out solos and improvised solos.
The jazz band is also looking
forward to performing for the Six Flags festival this spring. This
spring will be highlighted with a field trip to Jazz at Lincoln Center
where the students will be watching an open rehearsal of
Wynton Marsalis and his band.
2016/2017 WHS Marching Band informational meeting - interested 8th graders please see
page 6 for more information.
EIS Orchestra We would like to congratulate two
students on their performances with the CJMEA Region II
Orchestra! Dylan McCann, 7th
grade, was accepted on viola and
Amy Xiao, 6th grade, was
accepted on violin. We are proud
to have such talented students
represent Edison Intermediate School in this great ensemble.
The Chamber Orchestra, under the
direction of Mr. Craig Stanton,
performed at “Breakfast with the Bands” on Saturday, March 19th.
They performed a preview of their upcoming Spring Concert program,
including “The James Bond Theme."
The string orchestra students are gearing up for a challenging Spring
Concert series. Highlights from the 6th grade program include a
beautiful arrangement of the
Japanese folk song, “Sakura, Sakura" by Elliot Del Borg
and “Celtica” an Irish fiddle tune that will feature violinists
Genevieve Duguid and Amy Xiao.
The 7th grade program spans from
an arrangement of Shubert’s classic "Unfinished Symphony,” to
Kirt Mosier’s jazzy piece, “Blue Rhythmico.” The orchestra has
taken these different genres of
music as an opportunity to explore a variety of playing practices and
extended techniques. Lastly, the 8th grade orchestra has been
exploring aleatoric notation while learning the piece “Amadare”
composed by Keiko Yamada. The
Japanese word “amadare” translates to “raindrops”. The
students improvise within the structure of the piece to create the
effect of rain.
Drama
Congratulations to the cast and
crew of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! The amazing
musical wowed audiences at Edison Intermediate School on
March 17-19. It was a stunning performance that was highlighted
with awesome performances by Lindsay Sherman as Charlie, Elissa
Saint Denis as Willy Wonka, Ana
Fowler as The Candy Man and exceptional performances from the
Golden Ticket winners and their parents, the Oompa Loompas,
Phineas Trout and the
Cameraman, and the many town folks and dancers that helped to
make this a success. But what made this show special is that all
facets of the show were run by students. Every job, from stage
crew to lights, from house crew to
sound, from costumes to PR designs, it was a complete
student-run production. Hats off to you EIS! All of you deserve a
Golden Ticket! Well Done!
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Franklin
Elementary
Art
The Art Students at Franklin School are experiencing a wide
variety of media. Learning is taking
place through different projects and the inspiration of many a
Famous Artist. A creative environment is present and an
“aha” moment can be heard.
The 2nd grade students finished a
textural fish project which was a great segue into Model Magic.
Model Magic has an inviting texture which opens up discussion
about shape and form. These
elements should be understood so that a 3-D Owl sculpture can be
developed. New vocabulary and techniques are needed for the
development of these Franklin
School Mascots. Success can be seen throughout the class room
and students are enjoying the overlapping of colors and the
choices that they were given.
The 3rd grade students read the
book One Red Dot by David A. Carter. This artist was a paper
engineer who displayed his ability to cut and pop up form and shape.
He worked with paper and the
hiding of one red dot within his paper sculptures. The students
enjoyed this book and 3D was well received and visible. Concepts of
movement, positive and negative
shape and space, foreground, middle ground and background
were reviewed and reinforced. Projects were developed
accordingly and a collaborative lesson with Music was established.
The 4th grade students are studying value. Value is how much
darkness and lightness appears in a color. A 9 step value scale is
drawn up and the students can see and create many a variety of gray.
Once they experience and
understand the black and white, color will be introduced and a still
life will be drawn. Color sticks will be used with blending and
shading. Their 2D flat work will
begin to take on a 3D effect. Success can be seen.
The 5th grade students observed
and discussed the work of Claes Oldenburg. He was a Pop Art
sculptor who exaggerated the size
of everyday objects. Many a hamburger or ice cream cone were
visually enjoyed and sculpted. Model Magic was molded, cut,
pushed and pulled into a food item
of their choice. The experience of creating a 3D art object is so good
for these young minds.
Music
Spring is in the air as well as the
beautiful voices of the Franklin
students. On April 4, parents are invited to hear students in grades
1-4 sing at this year’s Music in Our Schools Month concert in the
Franklin gym. Grades 2 & 4 will perform at 12:45 p.m. and grades
1 & 3 will perform at 2:00 p.m.
The students have been rehearsing throughout March in preparation
for these two concerts and will demonstrate their musical skills
through singing, playing
instruments and dancing.
Students recreating pop up art using creative movement
In April, the students will continue to create and manipulate the
elemental rhythmic blocks using the Orff process. Body percussion
compositions will connect with
poetry and other chants which will then be transferred to pitched and
unpitched percussion. This will then lead into revisiting the
instruments of the orchestra,
especially as the third graders begin to think about what they
may want to play next year.
April is also Jazz Appreciation
Month (JAM). We’ll explore Jazz
music and its complex rhythms as we discuss the origins of Jazz and
its evolution. Improvisation will also be taught in the upper grades
with some opportunities to improvise both vocally and on the
xylophones and metallophones
during class.
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The fifth graders have been working very hard to prepare for
this year’s Spring Chorus concert. This year they will be singing a
variety of music that has challenged them as musicians and
attempting songs in three to six
part harmony. Their concert will be on Wednesday, May 11 at 7:00
p.m. in the Franklin gym.
Jefferson
Elementary Art
First graders are just beginning
their clay unit that emphasizes texture, pattern, and form. They
will be creating texture medallions and pinch pots (while studying
Greek pottery).
Second graders are finishing up
their weaving unit and their study of Georgia O'Keeffe's Flowers. The
next unit will concentrate on sculpture techniques, including the
slip and score methods of
attaching clay. Students will be constructing lizards, and then
reviewing color theory, starting with primary colors on their lizards,
then mixing acrylic paints to create
the secondaries for their lizard designs/patterns. This clay
sometimes stains clothes and the acrylic paint always stains clothes.
If your child doesn't have a smock
in school, I would HIGHLY suggest that you send one with him/her.
That being said, even with smocks, accidents happen. Please
have your child dress appropriately on their art day.
The students in 3rd grade will be starting the state testing soon. In
art, we will be complimenting that schedule by having our weaving
unit. Weaving has been shown to
relax students and increase focus. In the weeks leading up to the
testing, we will be creating our looms and learning new techniques
in weaving. Students will build upon prior knowledge from paper
weaving in first grade and radial
weaving in second grade. This is timed, so that during that actual
week of testing, they are practicing these newly acquired skills in a
serene atmosphere.
Fourth graders are just finishing up
their Totem Pole projects! This was a new lesson this year, and a
great success. Children used glue guns and corrugated cardboard to
create bas reliefs of their spirit
animal, on cardboard "trunks". This exercised the spatial relations
part of the brain, while being really fun! We also talked about
"YouTubekids" and how you can
learn a plethora of different artistic techniques from this wonderful
resource. This totem pole lesson was based on (with slight
modifications) a video from
"United Arts", an art supply vendor. Their next unit will be a
relaxing one based on the science of Zentangling. We will study a
contemporary, collaborative artwork, created by adolescents
diagnosed with "Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder" (OCD) in Baltimore, MD. In this
artwork, students will make contour drawings of expressive
faces, then break down the planes
of the face and create dimension using the repetition of simple lines.
This proven "Art Therapy" will be scheduled for the week of testing.
Art students in 5th grade are in the
final stages of their Pop Art, Andy
Warhol, self-portraits. To get ready for their Spring Musical,
students will be creating medieval banners to decorate the gym, as
well as props, such as the creating
and painting of the paper-mache boulder, that will act as the "sword
(and "boom-whacker") in the stone" scenes. The next project
will be focusing on drawing techniques including shading,
highlighting, hatching and cross-
hatching. We will be using still-life examples on their tables, starting
with real pears.
Music
Jefferson Elementary General Music classes are off to a Super
Spectacular Spring with specific lessons in Rhythm and Duration in
April, Tone Color and Timbre in
May and Form and Style in June.
First grade topics and songs will include: “The Three Billy Goats
Gruff” from Once Upon A Time Suite, “Mud”, “The Wheels on the Bus”, “Counting Up The
Dinosaur”, “The Dinosaur Dance”, “Out In The Garden”, “Take Me
Out to the Ballgame”, “The Seventh Inning Stretch”,
“Wiggleworm”, “The Itsy Bitsy
Spider” and “Over In The Meadow”.
Second grade topics and songs will
include: “I Had an Old Coat”,
“Abiyoyo”, “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”, “Circus Parade”, “You’re
a Grand Old Flag”, a variety of spring and Patriotic songs and a
study of the four Instrumental Families.
The 3rd grade topics and songs will include: “The Wheel of the
Water”, “America the Beautiful”, “Supermarket Shuffle”, “The
Garden Song”, “This Land is Your
Land” (composer: Woody Guthrie), “The Color of Music”,
partner songs and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”.
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Fourth graders will finish up their study of Musicals with partner
songs “Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little” / “Goodnight Ladies”, “Seventy-Six
Trombones” and “The Wells Fargo Wagon” from The Music Man.
Additional topics and songs will
include: “Erie Canal”, “Oklahoma Land Rush”, “The Wreck of the
Edmund Fitzgerald”, “Side By Side”, “The MTA Song”, “The
Inchworm” and “Stars and Stripes
Forever” (“March King” composer: John Phillip Sousa).
The 5th grade general music
classes are working with key signatures, scales, and the circle of
fifths. At the same time, the chorus is working hard on their
spring musical, “Joust!” to be
performed on Wednesday, May 11 in the Jefferson Auditorium. The
Band and Chorus performance will begin at 1 pm for students and
staff and 7 pm for parents and
guests. The chorus will also give an additional performance of their
musical “Joust!” for Grandparent’s Day on Thursday morning, May
12th, 2016.
We would like to thank the really AWESOME Jefferson School PTO
for helping to support our musical
experience and recent field trip to “Medieval Times” where we
learned more about being knights, squires, damsels, Merlin, King
Arthur, The Sword and the Stone, the Round Table and the Age of
Chivalry.
McKinley
Elementary Art
First Grade artists are on the move
creating movement through overlapping in their Mondrian
inspired collages. Motivated
through Mondrian’s work “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, the
students had a great time making and learning about this “New
Style” of abstraction. The students used poetry in their own titles for
their works that really tied the
project together nicely. Here is a picture of some of our hard
working artists. After this unit on overlapping shapes, the students
experimented with Air Art to
overlap colors and reinforce their understanding of color mixing.
The 2nd graders completed a unit
studying tints and shades through painting an overlapping name
design and now they will move
further into their unit of color learning about color balance. After
viewing a wide variety of famous artworks, the students were asked
if color has weight? How do artists balance colors in their artwork to
balance this weight? Each student
was given a stretched canvas and a variety of unconventional
“paintbrushes” like sponges, toothbrushes, Q-Tips, erasers,
funny brushes, etc. to make marks
throughout their work while keeping in mind the overall
balance of their painting. The results are really fantastic and
these young artists had a lot of fun too!
Third grade artists are working
with air-dry clay and the technique of coil building to reinforce artistic
concepts of Unity, Form and Shape. After a demonstration and
an introduction into the wide
variety of ways that artists build with coils, the students were
prompted to sketch three different coil designs. After selecting their
favorite idea, the students began
to wedge their clay, build their slab base, create with coils and even
make slip to make sure their artwork is held together. Once
their work is dried we will then use paint and gloss to put the finishing
touches on their work. We will
rediscover pattern as well as complementary colors in this final
stage of the fun art project.
Fourth grade artists are currently
scuba diving under the sea discovering and creating organic
shapes while learning about the
three important parts to divide a landscape; foreground, middle
ground and background. Through use of overlapping to create these
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differences spaces within their composition, the students will also
be focusing on contrast between colors. Their paper collages are
really awe inspiring and are bringing so much life into McKinley
School!
Fifth grade artists are going back
in time to the early 20th Century when Braque and Picasso created
Cubism in Paris, France. After their introduction to this radical art
movement, the students were
each photographed from three different angles. Then, each artist
combined the multiple perspectives through collaging their
photographs. These 5th graders then outlined all of the shapes in
the photograph to construct their
Cubist composition. Finally, the students will create their own
flavor to the work using a personalized palette of colors and
use what they have learned about
color theory to express their own artistic vision for these abstracted
Cubist self-portraits.
Music
At McKinley, everyone has been celebrating Music in Our Schools
Month! The 1st graders have been
listening to music of different moods while reading Dr. Suess'
"My Many Colored Days". The 2nd graders learned all about octaves
and made "Octave Octopuses" as shown in the picture here to
decorate their lockers. The 4th
graders made dynamic iPods showing the range of dynamics
from softest to loudest. The 5th graders have been working on new
music for their Spring Concert on
May 16th. We have also watched some ed.ted talks about the
importance of music education.
Tamaques
Elementary Art
Sumi-e refers to Japanese monochrome ink painting. It
originated in China and the technique was brought to Japan in
the 14th century. Second grade
students Mrs. Massenzio’s learned that in sumi-e painting, “the
picture already exists in your mind and the artist just puts it down on
paper. “To unfold the creative process, we first meditated and
listened to tranquil music. The
students painted beautiful bamboo and birds. Everyone enjoyed
learning about another culture and has a deeper understanding and
appreciation of the world around
them.
Georgia O’Keeffe (born 1887) was a celebrated American artist,
significant in the art movement of American abstraction. Although
she painted other subjects, she is most noted for her beautiful close-
up abstract paintings of flowers.
The 3rd graders in Mrs. Massenzio’s classes enjoyed an opportunity to
develop their own artwork, patterned after the colorful style of
Georgia O’Keeffe. This lesson
emphasized the exploration of line, color and shape.
Fourth grade students in Mrs.
Massenzio’s class experimented cutting and gluing various pieces
of cardboard together to create a
large-sized dog. Many different breeds were represented. The
students learned about proportion, symmetry, texture, color, form and
value, as they used their
imagination to create some really wonderful canine creations! Look
for these at the art show!
Imaginations ran wild as Mrs.
Massenzio’s 5th grade students experimented with various
wallpapers to create original whimsical canine portraits. Each
dog was created as a character and the final results were clever
and quite impressive! The focus
was on texture and pattern; both of which create visual interest.
Music
The past few months at Tamaques
have been primarily focused on the technical aspects of music that you
may find while playing, singing, or
performing. Whether it’s the 1st and 2nd graders fine tuning their
aural and visual recognition of melodic direction, or 3rd graders
discovering the connection
between the treble staff and the piano keyboard, the students have
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eagerly been hard at work. Throughout the process, each
class has continued singing and playing games to reinforce what
they have learned. Our 4th and 5th graders have continued developing
and fine tuning their knowledge of
written notation and it has successfully translated not only in
their singing, but also for some in their individual lessons for band
and orchestra.
The 5th grade Band and Chorus
Concert features a theme of “Look to the Sky!” Each song takes a
literal or figurative take on the catch-phrase, exploring a wide
variety of styles and
interpretations. From well-known to obscure, old to new, heartfelt to
light-hearted, somber to upbeat…Tamaques will cover it all
at our concert! Our performance
will be on Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 pm following the 4th Grade
Band Concert at 6:45pm.
Tamaques & Washington 4th & 5th Grade Band
Tamaques School and Washington
School 4th grade bands are busy preparing for their Spring
Concerts. In addition to their weekly lessons, the students are
participating in their weekly before
school band rehearsals. Selections for the spring concerts include
favorites: ”When the Saints Go Marching In”, “Hard Rock Blues” “Frere Jacques”, “London Bridge” and many others!
The Washington and Tamaques 5th
grade bands are also preparing for
their Spring Concert. The 5th grade band will perform many
songs including: “Band Room Boogie” and “Expedition!” a band
piece, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Zebulon Pike’s
expedition to discover the upper
reaches of the Mississippi. The concerts are free and open to the
public. Come hear our exciting progress!
Congratulations to all of the
Washington and Tamaques Band student who were accepted into
the 2016 All City Band!
Washington
Elementary Art
Art is blooming all around Washington School! Students in
1st grade have recently completed
a group of African animal projects. Each class has a collection of lions,
hippos, and giraffes (oh my!). This acted as the perfect segue
into a unit on African art and more
specifically, Egyptian art. Students are currently in the midst of
making colorful Kente clothing and mummy masks.
Second grade students are
applying their creative ideas to a very imaginative unit. They are
designing monsters, aliens, rocket ships, and futuristic robots. It has
been great fun watching these
ideas “come to life”. Without actual examples of these subjects,
the students’ visions have truly soared to infinity and beyond!
In the 3rd grade, students are
learning about the art of architecture. They have
discovered that the designs of buildings differ according to their
time, place and purpose. Thus far,
these young planners have created ancient castles, towering
cathedrals and colorful adobe houses.
Students in the 4th grade are
concluding their study of famous artists. They have loved exploring
the work of Haring, Matisse and
Picasso and have just finished an Impressionistic piece, a la Monet.
Their water lilies for this assignment truly stood out. They
have since begun an investigation of Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van
Gogh.
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The fifth grade students are in the midst of their most recent unit on
Pop Art. The colorful works of Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg
have inspired some amazing work. These young artists painted a
drawing of their own shoes and
are now designing an original logo for their favorite candy. It has
been a blast to observe how art is all around us.
Music
This school year has gone by so incredibly fast! The students here
at Washington enjoyed our
Valentine’s and Presidents’ Day Sing-Along in February, which was
a huge success! It’s exciting to see how the students are constantly
improving their music skills and
abilities every day!
In the past few months, we have been building on concepts such as
pitch and melody in music. We have been playing lots of games
and singing songs to help improve
our ability to match pitch and feel the placement of it in our voices.
We have continued talking more about rhythm, as the 1st and 2nd
graders can now recognize
patterns of pitches and rhythms much better than before! The 3rd,
4th and 5th graders have been able to identify solfege syllables
with hand signs, as well as
complicated rhythms, while their rhythmic capabilities improve.
Some favorite games of ours include “Step/Skip Game”, “Simon
Sings”, “Salami” and “Don’t clap this one back”. Many of these are
“out” games, which encourage students to stay motivated and
focused, while training their ears!
The students have also learned
about texture in music and they were physically able to see a score
of music through something called
an animated score. The colors in the animation showed what
instruments were playing and the shapes described the length and
dynamics of notes. The placement of where the notes were on the
page correlated with the pitch,
whether it was high, middle, or low. The students were fascinated
by these animated scores, especially the ones that included
symphony orchestras, as the
animations became much more complex!
We have been learning a number
of folk and partner songs, which
help students stay involved, keep a steady beat, recognize pitch and
form, while dancing and moving. Students have been able to create
their own dances and hand motions for these songs, allowing
room for creativity and self-
expression. We have also used some of our instruments, such as
bells, sticks and drums to add different textures to our musical
experiences.
The 5th graders have been
working hard these past few months on our Spring chorus
music. Our upcoming final concert is Thursday, May 19th at 7pm,
which includes “Mr. Trombone
Man”, “A Folk Song Hand Jive”, “Hakuna Matata” from The Lion King and some others! We hope to see you there!
Wilson
Elementary Art
The 1st grade students of Wilson School have just finished drawing
and painting turtles. In this lesson
they engaged in direct instructed drawing and then practiced mixing
primary colors to create secondaries. They finished up their
turtles with beautiful colorful
backgrounds.
Second grade is also focusing on mixing primaries and secondaries
with clown portraits. Tints and shades will also be added to
reinforce concepts learned earlier in the year.
The 3rd grade is journeying into
Jurassic World! This year their
sculptural unit is focused on prehistoric creatures! They are
learning about 3-dimensional form as they create their dinosaur
armature which will then be plastered and painted. Look for
them at this year’s District Art
Show!
The students in 4th grade finished up their one point perspective
mixed media bedrooms and have begun creating 3-D forms with cut
paper shapes. The focus of the
lesson is on organic forms and the paper cut collage work of Henri
Matisse served as inspiration.
The 5th graders are studying the Pop Art movement and learning
about Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg and Jeff Koons. Within
the unit, they are creating 3-D
sculptures and learning to make multiples with the printmaking
process.
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Lincoln
School
At Lincoln School the kindergarteners have been
working hard preparing for the Sing-a-Long on April 1st. Students
will be telling the story "How to Make a Pie and See the World"
through songs. There will be four
shows that day at 9:30, 10:30, 1:00 and 2:00.
These growing artists did an
amazing job creating Cezanne-
inspired, apple still life paintings helping to set the mood for our
Sing-a-Long theme. In April and May, we will be travelling around
the world and back in time. First,
the Japanese art of fish printing called Gyotaku will be explored.
Then, we will be learning about the first artists through cave
painting. The kinders really do love to explore how others make art.
The littlest artists at Lincoln will be
focusing on all things spring in April and May. From Georgia
O’Keeffe’s big and bold flowers and
Van Gogh’s sunflowers to cheery cherry blossoms that help us
welcome spring, we will be exploring many different ways to
create flowers. We will then have a bit of fun with fruit as we print and
paint our way to the end of the
school year! Yikes, that was fast!
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Westfield Coalition for the Arts
FALL 2015
Dear Westfield Parents: The mission of the Westfield Coalition for the Arts is to act as an advocate for the arts, including music, drama, visual arts, and dance in the Westfield Public Schools, by speaking out on behalf of the arts, maintaining public awareness and utilizing sources of community, financial and philosophical support. Each year we award grants to different arts programs in the schools based upon applications submitted to us from the Westfield Schools’ faculty. This year, we were happy to award over $20,000 in grant money for the following: Guest Clinicians to work with the WHS Band, an Apple TV for RIS music program, a field trip for Ms. Gant’s 8th Grade Orchestra at EIS, a Guest Collegiate Choral Director for WHS Choir, acoustic ceiling tiles for the WHS Band Room, transportation for the WHS Choir to travel to a senior housing complex, Master Classes for the WHS Chorale, musical instruments for Franklin School, music conferences for faculty, art supplies for RIS, new drum sets for RIS, EIS and WHS, and beautifully embroidered choir robes for the high school. We are so fortunate to live in a community that reveres the arts and believes strongly in nourishing the diverse talents of our youth. Demonstrate YOUR commitment to the arts by making a donation today. With your donations we are able to assist the music, choral, fine art, and theatre programs at the elementary, intermediate and high school levels. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization, and we depend solely on the generosity of parents and supporters. In addition, the Coalition is interested in your ideas, suggestions, and comments and hope that you will take the time to email us at [email protected]. PLEASE “LIKE” us on FACEBOOK and visit our website: http://www.WestfieldCoalitionForTheArts. We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for your support. ~ Margaret Smith, W.C.A. President _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yes, I/we would like to support the WCA. I/we will donate: Benefactor $500 Sponsor $75 Angel $200 Sustaining Member $50 Patron $100 Donation $_______ In appreciation of your gift of $75.00 or more, your name will print in the Winter & Spring concert programs. Name: ____________________________________________________________________________ (If donating $75 or more, please print the name as you would like it to appear in the programs.) Email: _________________________________________________Phone: _________________________ Westfield Public School (where youngest child attends): _____________________________________ Yes, I am interested in volunteering with the Coalition. Check here:___
Please make checks payable to Westfield Coalition for the Arts and mail to:
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