King Arts
Fine and Performing Arts Team Newsletter
March 2021
Check out our new intro for our daily all school morning announcements!!!!!

Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts
Visual Art-Ms. Vega - email link, Media Arts- Ms. Wernecke - email link
YEA! 2021 Opening: Saturday, May 15th
YEA! 2021 promises to be an amazing but different art experience this year.

The D65 Visual & Media Arts teachers are working diligently behind the scenes to make YEA! 2021 possible.

Spotlight on K-2nd Grade Art
1st grade Artists learned about artist Alma Woodsey Thomas and created artwork that was inspired by her colorful abstract paintings that combined science with art.
Zoe W., 1st
Shelby P, 1st
"Springtime in Washington",
Alma Woodsey Thomas
Elsa M, Kdg.
Haider B, 2nd
“Apollo 12 Splash Down,” 
Alma Woodsey Thomas
Layla B, 1st
Aris G, 1st
To check out Ms. Vega's Visual Art Website click HERE

Dance Ms. Sheehan- email link
6th Grade Dance Team Yellow has been building community while playing Zoom Tag. In dance we studied Gesture and how it can be used to create dances. We have become pretty good at Gesture Zoom Tag. We have a signature Gesture and we can catch a Gesture to transform it and pass it on!
7th Grade Folk Dance Research Project
Answering the Essential Question: How does dance deepen our understanding of ourselves, other knowledge, and events around us?
Dance Students practiced dances from around the world. Then they researched places that they found interesting, were their ancestor homeland and/or heartland.
Enjoy a slide show of some of the presentations

https://youtu.be/y4ye68u7Td4
Drama- Ms. Querciagrossa- email link Ms. Szczepaniak- email link
Picture Book adaptations
8th graders created audio book performances for our Kindergarten students.

Telling Stories with Toontastic app.
Students in grades 6 & 7 created original stories using the Toontastic app on their ipads
Music- Mr. Smith- email link, Ms. Weinman Ferguson- email link
3rd Grade Music
3rd graders have been transcribing "mystery songs" on Chrome Music Lab, then creating remixes of those songs. Here are just a few examples from our 3rd grade musicians... can you identify the "Mystery Songs"?

Evan Grace ••• Ruben ••• Salim ••• Elise ••• Zylan
4th Grade Music
4th graders learned to create a backbeat drum rhythm on Chrome Music Lab, then composed a base line to form a rhythm section, and finally wrote a melody to to complete their works.
Check out a few pieces from our 4th grade composers...

Evan ••• Tucker ••• Farah ••• Renmar ••• Temi ••• Tucker
Band and Orchestra - Ms. Church email link; Mr. Carrillo- email link
Ella Fitzgerald
Women's History Month Tribute
Band students in grades 5-8 have been listening to and playing works of the great jazz artist Ella Fitzgerald. Slide presentations in the band google classroom assignments include articles, videos, and interactive music links. Songs included A-Tisket A-Tasket, Caravan, It Don't Mean a Thing, and Satin Doll. Our celebration of Ella Fitzgerald links to our study of Duke Ellington last month, as the two great artists were musical collaborators.
Top Left: Andrew S.
Bottom left: Olivia D.
Middle: Diego P.
Top right: Aleah M.
These 4 students have been working very hard and showing great improvement these past few months throughout the pandemic and virtual learning and we are proud to showcase these MUSTANGS! Andrew is a 3rd-grade student who has consistently shown up to his lessons and with practice and consistency has shown that you can learn all the skills you need to be a successful musician. He has done everything asked of him with a smile on his face and has grown and developed into a wonderful young violinist! Olivia is a 7th-grade student who joined our King Arts orchestra in 5th grade. With lots of practice, determination, and her love of music she has grown exponentially and is now in our top orchestra and growing into an even stronger leader and violinist. We can't wait to see Olivia performing in person to show off all her great skills! Diego has been a musician with lots of enthusiasm who has shown a strong ability to learn music quickly. He also plays guitar, but his violin skills are making him become a strong leader on violin for his age. Even though Diego is part of a strong class with many stand-out students, we notice his ability to take instruction and put it into practice to come out with amazing results! Aleah is one of our 6th-grade students who has been very meticulous with her violin work. She has shown that when you pay attention to the details you can improve drastically and sound beautifully. She has shown a lot of growth in her violin playing over the last year and we're excited to see her grow into a stronger violinist with great potential and a wonderful attitude for working hard! Great Job Mustangs! Keep up the great work!
Library- Ms. Jaquess- email link
Virtual Author Visit with Ruth Spiro
Students in grades K-3 participated in a virtual author visit on March 18th with Ruth Spiro. Along with her love of gardening, she shared her latest book MAXINE AND THE GREATEST GARDEN EVER.

This exciting event was brought to us by local Evanston bookstore, BOOKED.
Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts