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Students in all Visual Art classes celebrated LatinX/Hispanic Heritage by learning about LatinX artists. Students in k-2nd grade learned about LatinX artists Carmen Lomas Garza and Favianna Rodriguez. They also read the story, "Round is a Tortilla, A Book of Shapes", by Roseanne Thong. Students created butterflies, drew portraits of special people, and created many drawing using SHAPES!!! Here are some examples of the wonderful drawings 1st and 2nd grade artists created. Go to Ms Vega's website to see more galleries of student art work.

Throughout the month of October, students have been celebrating LatinX Heritage month through carefully chosen titles like, Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales. After reading the story students were asked, "If you were a luchador, what would your name be? What would you look like?" The responses have been amazing! Here are a few to enjoy:

October has been full of creation! King Arts students engaged in celebrating LatinX music and rhythms as part of our Latinx Heritage Equity Week. We danced with José-Luis Orozco’s “Tra La La,” played clave rhythms with Bo Diddley, and learned dance steps to one of the first Cha Cha Cha songs ever written! 3^rd and 4^th graders have been composing rhythms using items found in nature and around their desk. Here are a few examples showing the creativity of our King Arts students! 

Online music applications such as Chrome Music Lab have allowed students to create music during remote learning through a variety of experiments. 5th and 6th grade students have learned to program drum rhythms in Chrome Music Lab's Rhythm Experiment. Students also have been learning to compose and transcribe songs and melodies in CML's Song Maker Experiment, using a grid-like structure that integrates concepts of math and visual art.