Affiliated with the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network
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
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Character Creation with Julia Cuppy
Students will use the "3 Bs" - Breath, Brain, and Body - to create an imagined character that interacts with an environment.
Medium: Theatre
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
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
Dance Your Feelings with Lindsi Kay
Students will learn how to use dance movement to express their feelings responsibly. students will identify emotions, and how they can use movement qualities like tempo and speed to release their feelings through dance.
Medium: Dance
Expressing Feelings Through Songwriting with Melinda Martinez
Students will use lyric templates to create their own collaborative songs. While identifying feelings, and ways to express them, students will explore the use of words in music.
Medium: Music
Let’s Be A Character with Nikki Flinn
Students will explore creating character through creative movement, sound, play, connection, and interview, focusing on details of physical, vocal, and emotional choices.
Medium: Theatre
Let’s Dance and Make Shapes with Nikki Flinn
Students will explore dance through observation, embodiment, and improvise elements from nature and shapes through movement, and connection.
Medium: Dance
Line, Color & Shape: Expression Through Abstraction with Kanani Miyamoto
Students will explore abstract art by reflecting on their emotions and recent experiences. They will consider how abstract artists use line, color, and shape to convey feelings and create their own abstract representations of an exciting moment in their lives
Medium: Visual Arts
Little Puppets with Big Feelings with Lauren Jost
Students will learnto create a simple puppet and use it to express emotions in different settings.
Medium: Theatre
My Rhythm, My Story with Christiana Zollner
Students will learn how to use body percussion and chants to create short rhythmic patterns that express how they feel and who they are.
Medium: Music
My Story: Moveable Parts Collage with Judy Fuentes
Students will learn about abstract art as they create an impermanent art piece representing a story that shares something true about themselves.
Medium: Visual Arts
Rhythm and Motion Bucket Drumming with Dennis J Dove
Students will learn about rhythm, find their unique rhythmic voice, and compose a rhythm beat.
Medium: Music
Sketchbook Building & Design with M. V. Moran
Students will learn how to make their own sketchbooks from everyday items. Students will learn foundational art concepts.
Medium: Visual Arts
Taiko Rhythm and Respect with Unit Souzou
Students will learn about rhythm, find their unique rhythm maker, and compose a taiko rhythm that tells a story. Throughout the lesson, students will build a sense of mindfulness and respect for themselves, their peers, and their instruments.
Medium: Music
Voice Experiments with Eri Zinke
Students will explore different ways they can use their voice and body through warm-ups and drama games. In small groups, students will use these skills to act out a short story in collaboration with others.
Medium: Theatre
“Match The Tempo” Dance Game with Nicole McCall
Students will dance in a circle to three different pieces of music, changing their speed to match each song.
Medium: Dance