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SPARK! Arts Integration Residencies

This spring has been BUSY with arts integration residencies at all nine elementary and three middle schools! In April, there were over 20 residencies happening throughout K-8 MCPS schools!

Some of the residencies, include:

Heidi Waegele & Oumar Keita | Music, Dance & Guinea Culture @ Kindergarten PAXSON

Missoula Writing Collaborative|Poetry @ 3rd grade LEWIS & CLARK

Amy Lariviere|Readers Theatre & Pollination @ 2nd FRANKLIN

Rosie Ayers | Theatre & American Revolution @ 1st LOWELL

Matthew Nord | Music & Oviparous Animals @ Kindergarten RUSSELL

Teresa Waldorf | Theatre & Butterfly Stages @ Kindergarten CHIEF CHARLO

Barbara Morrison |Nursery Rhymes and Puppets @ Kindergarten RATTLESNAKE & HAWTHORNE

Reid Reimers | Theatre & Medieval Characters @ 7th grade CS PORTER

IWFF/Roxy | Filmmaking & Science @ 7th MEADOW HILL

Heather Adams | Social Dance & PE @ 7th grade WASHINGTON

There were many more, too many to share here, so please go to our calendar to check out more!

Other News:

Arts and Education Laugher Best Medicine

Arts and Education: Rattlesnake Elementary

SPARK! Arts in the News

SPARK! Arts appeared in multiple news stories, highlighting some of the arts integration residencies and arts enhancements happening around Missoula County Public Schools, as well as celebrating our artists and art advocates. Click on the titles to see the full article and news clip:

Laughter is the Best Medicine, a clip about a theatre residency with Teresa Waldorf integrating emotional health in Jeannette Rankin's PE classes.
Bat Honey Entertains Missoula Students, a feature about our arts enhancement opportunity for all MCPS kindergarten students.
Missoula Students Creating Movie Documentary, a segment about Meadow Hill Middle School's 7th grade science students' media arts integration residency with The Roxy Film Academy and International Wildlife Film Festival.
Missoula Students Learning to Move to the Beat, a clip of the Drum Brothers teaching African drumming to 1st grade students.
Combining Science & Dance at Rattlesnake Elementary, a peek into the work Lulu Delphine has done with 2nd grade students this year.
Missoula Students Learning Math in a Unique Way, shares how Rosie Ayers has used drama integration to teach fractions.

Thank you to KPAX for showcasing SPARK! Arts and arts education. Interested in reading more about SPARK! Arts in the news? Click HERE! for more article links.

ELEMENTARY ART SHOW

Check out some amazing masterpieces of our students from MCPS and surrounding district areas at Southgate Mall from April 29-May 19.

A huge shout out to MCPS elementary and middle school visual art teachers for all their creativity, talent, skills and inspiration they share with our students. Thank you to these teachers, artists, role models:

Robin Gray

Tiffany Miller

Angie Schowengerdt

Leslie Snoke

Norel Swanson

Monica Thompson

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