Background Ojo de Dios is Spanish for the eye of God. It is a weaving of yarn and wood and has been used as an ancient, contemplative practice that is a combination of Hispanic and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas cultures. The four ends of the sticks represent the four …
This week, we celebrated Chinese New Year’s coming up on the 25th. However, we also want our student to practice mindfulness and activities that will allow them to relax and calm down after school. With our younger class, our first activity was mindful breathing. We practiced breathing in and out …
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 …
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 …
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 …
For our final week of this semester at Southwark, we finished up the duck drawings the students began last week. Most of them had the primary outline and sketching done by the end of last weeks class, so they focused on the coloring and details this week. The class learned …
The middle and high school students at Penn Treaty had a fun filled painting class this past week. We had wooden frames that we were able to bring over for them to decorate. They sketched on their designs and then used Acrylic paint to make the frames colorful and bright. …
Every year the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service hosts an art competition. The goal is to draw and color the best duck from among other students in the same age group. Students from all over the country compete to have their duck drawing chosen, and the winner is placed on …
