Introducing Photography in Fourth Grade

Here we go!  This trimester in fourth grade we will be studying photography.  

Our first class was an inquiry into how cameras work, then we used Edward Weston's quote below as inspiration to take our own creative photographs.

We went outside with our iPads to see what new images we could create from the world around us.   

  

We experienced how different perspective can create interesting images, and Dylan became a great photo-op, which gave students the opportunity to learn that term.  

next week:  5th grade intro to impressionism

Greetings and welcome to all.

We are back and eager to take our program to another level.

We have already started our musical instrumental classes and our students are happy to play once more. On the other hand in music education classes we are introducing the learning objectives for the first trimester.

My best wishes

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Drama, 2nd Grade Families!

Welcome MET Families to the Drama section of the new PYP Visual and Performing Arts Blog!

My name is Ms. Odette and I will be teaching Drama to the 2nd Grade students during this school year. As we begin the year, our focus is on getting to know one another and building a foundation of trust in the classroom. In Drama, it is very important that we create an environment where we feel we can try new things and grow, knowing that we have the support of our classmates. 

As 2nd Graders, we will continue to build on the skills that we have been developing since we began our Drama classes here at the MET. Our classes begin with physical warm-ups to build our endurance and our vocal projection. This will help us become performers that have stage presence and command the attention of our audience. We will begin with improvisation and mime work to allow us to demonstrate the creative choices we make through our physicality, as well strengthen our story-telling abilities. As we become stronger readers, we will continue to focus on literacy by taking a look at stories, as well as scripts that we can perform and write skits of our very own. With each passing year, the students are encouraged to challenge their capabilities by going the extra mile and in doing this, discover new levels of confidence when performing in front of an audience.

Through this blog, I will be sharing pictures taken in class of the activities that we are participating in. We hope you enjoy this peek at our Drama class time!

Welcome back to a new and promising school year! 

We are ready for a new year of music learning. 

First Grade and Kinder Garden students sharing songs.

Welcome back to Visual Arts!

We're back and ready to go!  Just a short message to say: welcome back!

This first week back I am asking all of my students what artistic activity they did during their vacation and the responses are overwhelmingly varied and abundant.  It comes as no surprise that the arts are something that students will voluntarily do during their free time.

We love teaching them new and different ways to express themselves creatively every day.

love, Gabi.

Welcome to a very special 2016-2017 school year! 

We are all excited about learning and making new things in art class this year, sharing our ideas and talents with our learning community.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Drama, 1st Grade Families!

Welcome MET Families to the Drama section of the new PYP Visual and Performing Arts Blog!

My name is Ms. Odette and I will be teaching Drama to the 1st Grade students during this school year. As we begin the year, our focus is on getting to know one another and building a foundation of trust. In Drama, it is very important that we create an environment where we feel we can try new things and grow, knowing that we have the support of our classmates. 

Our goal is to continue to build upon the skills that we have developed in Kinder. As our reading skills become stronger, we will now focus more on literacy, reading stories to each other and then, performing these stories. We will also focus on our emotions, reflect on how our emotions connect with our feelings and how our bodies demonstrate these feelings to the outside world. The primary focus of performance is: the body, our voice and emotions. As we become more comfortable with these aspects of the human spirit, we can implement them into a performance in front of an audience.

Through this blog, I will be sharing pictures taken in class of the activities that we are participating in. We hope you enjoy this peek at our Drama class time!

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Drama, Kinder Families!!

Welcome MET Families to the Drama section of the new PYP Visual and Performing Arts Blog!

My name is Ms. Odette and I will be teaching Drama to the Kinder students during this school year. As we begin the year, our focus is on getting to know one another and building a foundation of trust. In Drama, it is very important that we create an environment where we feel we can try new things and grow, knowing that we have the support of our classmates. 

We hope to go on adventures using our imagination, pretend, make-believe and have the courage to try new things in order to become risk takers! This will become the starting point from which we hope to develop physical dexterity, connect with our emotions, become story tellers and performers.  

Through this blog, I will be sharing pictures taken in class of the activities that we are participating in. We hope you enjoy this peek at our Drama class time!