December 2020, King Arts Fine and Performing Arts Team Newsletter

King Arts Fine and Performing Arts Team Newsletter

December 2020

We are King Arts

Click on the flyer to learn more about our MLK week school wide activities in January 2021

#BLM

Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts

Fine Arts Team Website

Performing and Visual Arts Experiences for the Whole Family

Do you miss going to see live music, theatre and dance and visiting art museums?

We do too. Here are some suggestions from your Arts Teachers for virtual music, drama, dance, and visual arts events for the whole family that are free or a small optional donation to watch or visit on line.

Apollo Theatre, NYC, Kwanzaa Celebration, Dec. 27

New York City Ballet: Saturday Ballet Breaks 10am

Peggy Notebaert Nature has my vote for best Virtual Activities!

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Winter Season 2020

Watch CSO’s The Music in George’s Head

Lyric Opera for Kids

Haring Kids

Peter Pan the Musical Adventure, Chicago Shakespeare Free Live Stream until January 1, 2021

Chicago Children's Theatre

NPR’s Tiny Desk Music Concerts

Virtual Tour of Lyric Opera House

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for kids

Metropolitan Museum of Art #METKIDS

Northwestern Theatre Imagine U Storytime

Library- Ms. Jaquess- jaquesss@district65.net

SORA

Keep your child reading ALL winter break long with the SORA app. Using SORA, students have access to both D65 and Evanston Public Libraries all in one place. Students log-in through their CLEVER account.

Middle School Families, be sure to check out Hot Reads for Cold Nights: a YA "Best Of" reading list compiled by D65 Librarians.

Instrumental Music, Band and Orchestra

Ms. Church, Band- email link Mr. Carrillo- email link

Middle School Band Students working toward virtual MLK performances!

Band students in grades 6, 7, and 8 have been working on "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and are submitting videos this week for a combined orchestra and band performance for our MLK presentation! In addition, Jazz Band students are also submitting recordings of the jazz piece "Boom Boom" by the great jazz artist John Lee Hooker. Kudos to our young musicians for their work in these musical endeavors!

🎻 Recognizing hard working Orchestra students! 🎻

All of our active and participating students in orchestra are progressing very well, and I am very proud of all their work...... BUT there are some students who are working & practicing far beyond my expectations and it shows!

Evan Grace is a 3rd grade student who started playing last year on violin. She has been working hard all last year, through the summer, and well into this year. She has taken so much initiative in her playing that I have been able to get her to play almost what some of our middle school students are playing. She takes careful notes on all our lessons, practices hard, and puts a lot of attention to all the details! She is a star student and I cannot express how wonderful her playing is today!

Dasha is a 6th grade student who started on violin in 2nd grade and switched to Bass in 4th grade. After her switch to bass she was very patient in learning a new instrument and last year began to flourish! Not only is she excelling as a bass player but she is an essential member of our orchestra as one of our low string players. She has a positive attitude, love of music, and a love for learning. She is going to go far in her studies and will do great things!

❤️ GREAT JOB MUSICIANS!!!! ❤️

Keep up the hard work!

Drama- Ms. Querciagrossa- email link Ms. Szczepaniak- email link

There is a Bird on Your Head

8th grade Drama Students created Zoom performances of Elephant and Piggie stories by Mo Willams to share with the Kindergarten. Click on the buttons to watch a

few of their videos.

Pigs Make Me Sneeze

Are You Ready to Play Outside?

Music- Mr. Smith- email link, Ms. Weinman Ferguson- email link

MLK Virtual Assembly Performances

2nd graders are hard at work turning their class pledges into music for the MLK Birthday Assembly.

King Arts 7th & 8th grade Guitar Ensemble (above) also is creating virtual performances.

Visual Art-Ms. Vega - email link, Media Arts- Ms. Wernecke - email link

1st and 2nd Grade Artists created many wonderful drawings this month. Here are some examples of snowglobes and hand tracings with symbols of kindness and love.

Snowglobe Drawings

Christopher, 1st Grade

Hiro K., 1st Grade

Evelyn C., 1st Grade

Giving Kindness Drawings

Zara D., 2nd Grade

Carmin B., 2nd Grade

Devon J., 2nd Grade

...and some more drawings from 2nd Grade artists!

Dance Ms. Sheehan- email link

Dear Dancer: Dance and Community

7th and 8th Grade dancers have been creating movement stories on Zoom. Amazing dances have been created. We hope you enjoy our use of technology as we move choreography to Zoom-o-graphy.

Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts