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Students will create artwork that reflects their unique interests and qualities using various materials.
Medium: Visual Arts
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Art is Everywhere: Sketchbook/Scrapbooks with Elisabeth Herrera Very
Students will use a variety of non-traditional materials to create a sketchbook or scrapbook to explore their personal ideas. Students will continue to develop their unique point of view and identity as developing artists.
Medium: Visual Arts
Artistic Forms & Structures: A Creative Exploration with Mia Bonilla
Students will explore and create paper sculptures, using various forms and structures to express their personal ideas and emotions.
Medium: Visual Arts
Big Picture vs. Little Picture with Mika Martinez
Students will explore how what they see influences their initial perception of that moment, the people in or connected to what they see, and how that changes when more information is made available. By the end of the lesson, students will understand how an artist's choice impacts their thoughts and feelings about themselves and others.
Medium: Visual Arts
Bird Mask Making & Storytelling with Shuhe Hawkins
Students will learn to create bird masks using simple materials. They will also explore the use of their voices and bodies to transform into their bird characters and tell stories.
Medium: Theatre
Black Inventors Charades with Heather Pearl
Students will use acting as a tool for communication. By acting out inventions from the past, students experience history in new ways.
Medium: Theatre
Book Inspired Dance with Nicole McCall
Using things found in the world around them (a book), students will make observations and then improvise moves that feel connected to their source inspiration. Developing creativity in dance requires experimentation and exploration using a variety of sources as inspiration for movement to represent personal and/or symbolic meaning.
Medium: Dance
Break It Down- Drawing with Shapes with Kristi Riedel
Students will learn to break down complex drawings into familiar shapes and discuss applying this technique in other areas of problem-solving.
Medium: Visual Arts
Build-A-Band with Mo Phillips
Students will be introduced to the art of songwriting. We will explore two major elements of songwriting: lyrics and melody. Students will also work collaboratively and will practice the art of listening and building as a team.
Medium: Music
Character Creation with Rae Davis
Students will connect with one another through communal problem-solving-oriented storytelling.
Medium: Theatre
Clown Class with Heather Pearl
Students will be introduced to the theatrical form of clowning. Through warm-ups, exercises and creating a scene, the class will explore expressing shapes and emotions, observing others, and responding to others' characters.
Medium: Theatre
Collaborative Paper Making with Romana Sena
Students will work together to create recycled paper using their past work from the classroom.
Medium: Visual Arts
Collaborative Song Making with Smith & Yarn
Students will practice simple song-making skills like creating rhythm, melody and lyrics. In small groups, students will each choose a song-making skill and collaborate with others to create a short musical composition about friendship.
Medium: Music
Colorful Emotions with Mia Bonilla
Through the use of colorful shapes and expressive art-making, kindergarten students in our class develop important socio-emotional skills. By exploring emotions through creativity, children strengthen their social awareness and build meaningful connections with their peers and themselves. This activity serves as a foundation for lifelong emotional well-being and interpersonal relationships.
Medium: Visual Arts
Compartiendo Música para Convivir with Bryan Ortega
Students will learn about sharing music and how different music is used on different occasions and creates an ambiance. Students will create a playlist that represents their classroom that they can use in the future.
Medium: Music
Construye Un Cuento (Build a Story) with Valentina Ortiz
Students will identify with the character of the story through basic research and body movements. There will be a closing reflection about how important it is that a person has unique authentic stories, how it is crucial to listen to other persons´ unique stories, and how listening to our different versions brings us together as a community.
Medium: Theatre
Contando Y Sintiendo Sin Palabras with Luciana Proaño
Students willl learn to feel comfortable in their body regardless of what they are expressing.
Medium: Dance
Crafting Community Through Storytelling with Orion Bradshaw
Students will investigate, self-reflect, and share their personal stories in various ways - while also practicing deep listening, observation, and collaboration processes to create and share a variety of stories about individual and communal identities, culture, interests, and concerns.
Medium: Theatre
Create A Food Chain Soundscape with Jessa Campbell
Students will explore how melody, rhythm, and dynamics in music can represent ideas from nature, focusing on an Oregon-based food chain.
Medium: Music
Creating a Story as an Ensemble with Francisco Garcia
Students will work together to notate the beginning, middle and end of a story or fable. Students will collaborate as an ensemble through tableau to show their understanding.
Medium: Theatre
Creating and Refining Samba-Inspired Rhhtms with Courtney Danley
Students will use words to create rhythms and add rhythms to their classmates rhythms to create a composition.
Medium: Music
Del Corazón al Escenario with Valentina Ortiz
Students will explore human emotions and learn how different individuals or characters can respond differently to the same event. Through exercises like body isolation and facial movements, they’ll develop awareness of their body’s position and movement.
Medium: Theatre
Dramatic Structure: Action and Consequence with Francisco Garcia
Students will be intorduced to the use of dramatic structure in theatre and how it can be used to create a story.
Medium: Theatre
Drawings Using One Line DIBUJOS DE UNA SOLA LÍNEA with Christian Barrios
Students will create drawings using a single continuous line, focusing on visual engagement and following the line to develop an image or creature.
Medium: Visual Arts
Embodied Storytelling with Ki Ridenour-Starnes
Students will be introduced to an adaptation of a Southwestern/Southeastern indigenous story and embody the characters they learn about.
Medium: Theatre
Emotion Dance with Nicole McCall
Students will create a dance improvisation using that expresses how they feel when they are doing an activity that brings them joy. As a part of this lesson students will deepen their self awareness, explore DANCE MOVES AND ENERGY as creative tools, and create an improvisation expressing different kinds of feelings.
Medium: Dance
Express Yourself with Animal Songs with Red Yarn (Andy Furgeson)
Students will identify their mood, choose a related animal, and then compose simple animal songs with original lyrics and rhythms that reflect their mood & their animal’s behavior. With partners, students will share their compositions and reflect upon how their feelings guided their creative choices, and how it felt to create.
Medium: Music