Save the date for our Dr. King Birthday Celebration 2021
January 15, 2021:
Time TBD
Streaming Virtual Dr. King Birthday community celebration....stay tuned for more information.
Great Questions to start your oral history conversations around the Thanksgiving table. Print out this Placemat for your Thanksgiving table.
Join Story Corps
Great Thanksgiving Listen
The Great Thanksgiving Listen empowers young people—and people of all ages—to create an oral history by recording an interview with a relative, friend, or someone they admire.
If on Thanksgiving you will be safely in person or will be on Zoom or on the phone with someone you would like to interview this Thanksgiving, check out the Story Corps website!
Click on the picture to see all of the map projects.
3rd Grade Map Unit = Arts Integration
Students worked across curriculum to study and explore the use and importance of maps. Using Compass Rose and Key they created dance maps, explored with music and in the classroom they created a map of their own invented town.
Please explore the band website! There are many resources here for students, including links to recordings of the music we are working on, instructional videos for fourth and fifth graders (or anyone who would like to review), and note reading video tutorials and exercises. I am adding material weekly!
King Arts 8th Grade Band students are busy making videos for the virtual "Band Day" presentation that will be shared later in December. Students have been practicing the piece "NightMarchers" and are submitting videos to ETHS to join eighth graders from across District 65 for a mass virtual performance! Thank you students for your work and contributions to this much anticipated project!
Recently we have had new orchestra students join in 2nd grade & 4th grade as beginning players! Welcome to the instrumental community at King Arts and we hope you really enjoy making music and performing with our King Arts family!
We recently had Hispanic Heritage Month in October. Concert orchestra students worked on "Remember Me" from the movie Coco and are going to learn a few other Latin American pieces in the near future.
Please enjoy a video celebrating Dia de Muertos!!!
Working as playwrights students in grades 6-8 created original pieces that told the story of their names. Then they worked as actors using their voices and sound to convey meaning.
November has taken us into an exploration of the ways in which music is all around us. Students in all grades have been using American Sign Language in their music classrooms. Here are a few you can try at home!
Spanish teacher Mr. Taba and Ms. Vega worked together to teach students in 7th and 8th grade about Dia De Los Muertos. Students created ofrendas for someone special to them. Here are some examples of their ofrendas.
We are excited to add a new eBook source for our students. SORA is a student reading app that provides access to both District 65 and Public library collections of eBooks and audio books.
SORA is an App on the iPad and is also accessible via Clever. Click below for specific log-in information.
