Last week we all enjoyed participating in the Jess Dance hip hop workshop. A huge thank you goes out to our school PAC for supporting this opportunity. It was great to see students demonstrating a growth mindset by being optimistic and persistent in working through some tricky dance sequences. The end performance is going to be fantastic. The final result will be posted on our school website once the video is edited.
As part of an inquiry project about identity and the blanket of self, students worked on a series of social studies infused art lessons based on self portraits. Our lessons focused on identity, observation skills, race and beauty. The initial lesson ideas came from the website “Teaching Tolerance” and it is part of a series of lessons focused on teaching about race and ethnicity.
These art lessons were part of an inquiry unit focused on self identity, connected to our Language Arts writing focus about ourselves, and also connected to our Social Studies unit on the impact of colonization (the loss of identity). The students did a wonderful job and showed great empathy, patience and resilience. |
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