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Your Destination: Participate in museum-type observation and dialogue about Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting and paint your own version in a directed lesson. Learn how colors and strokes can express feelings. Travel Kit: large image of a Van Gogh Sunflowers painting Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Arnholt (or other children’s …
Seikilos epitaph, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Seikilos Epitaph When did music become a part of education? Music has been an important part of daily life for humans for thousands of years. African tribes have been performing songs and dances for hundreds of years, kept alive through aural tradition rather …
For this week’s lesson, we wanted to do something that is more relaxing for the mind, so we had the students at Towey do portraits through various steps. First, we started off by lightly drawing an upside down oval shape for the head. While they were drawing the head, we …
Last Wednesday at the Cohocksink rec center, we had a very fun and colorful art class! Introduced the students to the famous dutch painter Vincent van Gogh! In the beginning of this lesson I asked the students if they were familiar with Van Gogh or any of his works, and …
Before I talk about the lesson, I just wanted to say that I love how the students at Penn Treaty designed the closet doors with their names and the inspiration words that they worked on last week. I think that they chose the perfect spot because each time you open …
Your Destination: Learn why we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on MLK Day and make a collaborative poster to commemorate his legacy. Travel Kit: I Have a Dream by Kadir Nelson large foam board or poster board, in a color light enough to write on plain white or manila …
As winter descends, we have begun growing a yoga garden at Fishtown Recreation Center. Each week, we begin class with a series of basic yoga poses, each pose named after a plant or animal found in a garden. We chose to use these familiar terms, rather than the official sanskrit …
