Making music provides unique opportunities for students to express their emotions. Often through music we realize how we are feeling and name those feelings. It also allows us to release emotions by making our own music, listening to it, or singing and dancing. For our Music, Mindfulness and Motion through …
Julie Shaffer is a new docent at Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. This is her second semester volunteering with Art Sphere. She loves yoga, post-modern fiction, and art history and wants to cultivate a love and appreciation of art in young children. At Fishtown Recreation Center this week, we kicked …
At the Fishtown Library Lunchtime Literacy session this week, we asked our young friends to suspend reality for the moment and enter the realm of imaginary and fantastical animals. Have you ever met an octicorn? We began by reading a delightfully humorous and touching book titled Hello, My Name is …
We began our fist class at Southwark this week. Our theme for this semester is music and meditation, as well as combining this with teaching literacy and unity. Music is an amazing way to lead students into the habit of recognizing patterns, following a director, and learning how to work …
Which famous Philadelphian woman was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera? Marian Anderson! She was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and respectable, her mother was a former schoolteacher. Her father delivered ice and coal throughout the city. At the heart of their community stood the …
This past Wednesday’s art class was all about our favorite artist..ourselves! With this being my first time teaching with Art Sphere I wanted to get to know my students better, and what better way to break the ice than talking about what we want to be when we grow up! …
This was our breakthrough assignment since coming back from the New Year and I wanted to have a “home” welcoming party. The students at Towey we’re really creative with how the inside of their homes would look. Challenging the students to think of art in another aspect other than painting …
Music has the awesome ability and effect to shift our mood or enable us to recall fond memories. “When you listen to music you also work better, you can exercise harder and longer, and you experience changes in blood pressure.” (Parker, 2016) In addition to all this, music allows …
