Child's Name - Copley-Fairlawn City Schools

Free Artist Guest Appearance
Young Audiences, a Northeast Ohio organization that matches
performing artists with area schools, recently held a contest to
give away 20 free programs to celebrate national Arts in Education
Week Sept. 12-16. To enter, a representative from a school had to
submit a 100-word (or less) essay on why the arts are important
in education. The winners earned a free visit from a Young
Audiences professional teaching artist in dance, theater, music
or visual arts (these visits usually cost several hundred dollars).
Our PTA President Beth Hertz entered on behalf of
Arrowhead and won! Jim Gill, who uses humor and art to
encourage kids to express themselves visually, visited the school
on Thursday, Sept. 15. He worked with students from Mrs. Stiles’
and Miss Nelich’s classes during their normal music class time.
He talked about story development and encouraged children to
use their imaginations to create new things. For example, each
child drew a shape on a piece of paper and then passed it to
another child, who used that shape to create a drawing and
imagine a story behind the sketch. Like he said, the person who
first tried to sell a television show about a yellow sponge that lives
in a pineapple under the sea and wears pants was probably viewed
as nuts. The kids, of course, all recognized that as Sponge Bob!
To see all the winning entries in the Young Audiences contest, visit
http://youngaudiences.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/love-letters-toarts-and-education/.
Here is Beth’s entry...
We spend a lot of time teaching our children to spell, to do
math, to remember dates in world history. And that is all really
important.
But today’s changing world means that many of these kids will
end up in careers that don’t even exist today. Keeping up with
the transformations that technology is bringing will require
them to THINK, and do it creatively.
Through learning to appreciate the intricacies of classical
music, the elegance of dance, the tension in a drama or the
subtleties of a painting, children arouse the essential, limitless
creative possibilities of their minds.
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KINDERGARTEN ART
Cathy Wooley
Arrowhead kindergarten artists are off to a great start. Once
again our primary focus will be on the wonderful color wheel.
We have completed our yellow section and look forward to
many more. We have also been learning the color wheel song.
Last week we studied the art of Pablo Picasso and created shape
pictures in his Cubist style. More projects coming soon!
AFTER SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
Fall Session 2011
Thank you everyone for your great response in our Fall
Programs. Everything is running smoothly and our
volunteers have been doing a great job! Thank you!
We wanted to let you know that we still have PLENTY of
openings for our Learn to Twirl (baton twirling)
program that is being held on Wednesdays starting
November 2nd. The fall program will run for 6 weeks, and
girls can continue on in the winter and spring sessions to
come. We are very lucky to have an instructor as talented
as Audrey Moore (director of Showstoppers Dance and
Twirl Teams) come to Arrowhead to teach our girls at
such a discounted price. Spots are still available in both
the Level I class (for those who have never taken a twirling
class before), and in the Level II class (for those who have
taken this program before).
Class fee is $35 for the 6 classes (November 2nd, 9th,
16th, 30th, and December 7th and 14th).
Equipment fee of $29.75 is needed for a regulation baton
if you do not already have one.
Please call or email one of us for registration. Thank you!
Julie Roth
julietroth4@gmail.com
330-670-9638
Dana Osborne
danaosborne@gmail.com
330-668-6935
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