Living Sky School Division

Arts Education: Awareness Inservice

Grade 3 & 4

 

Jim Shevchuck

Renee Torwalt

Carol Weibe

NBCHS September 25, 2006

 

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Grade Three Workshop

 

Jim Shevchuk (all four strands)

 

Motivational Set:

Play music from around the time the students were born, up beat, peppy

a) Chica Cherry Cola - be-bop sound 10 years ago

b) Surf board/Skate board culture. Cut out of a piece of foam a shape of a board and play Surfin’USA or the theme from Hawaii 5-0

c) Lead group activities to move the students around on the “surf board” - a theme from the course “MAKE BELIEVE”.

 

Goals

- To help teachers feel more familiar with the curriculum documents

- Take some ideas home that may be useful in the classroom

 

Introduction - O/H

1 . Aims

2. Goals

 

Concentrate on the ideas that “Making sense of art should be easy - it is all around us” : architecture, sports, music, work, decorating and Radio etc.”

 

3. Time Allotment and Special Events

O/H - Christmas concerts, drama productions and assemblies are not the sole property of one department or subject area

 

4. Sample Topics Across Areas of Study - O/H

Build on the idea the subject content you are most familiar with. It can be a building block for Arts Ed. awareness help it make sense to the students - ”Make it make sense”.

 

Grade 3 Drama

Sample Unit: Dreams and Fantasy

- Dinosaurs

- Dragons

- Castles and Knights

- Build on the concept of Patterns -

 

Resources

a) Muppet movie - “STOMP”

b) Charlotte Diamond - Dicki, Dicki Dinosaur

c) Sagwa the Chinese Cat - Animated Children’s TV Show

d) Cinder-Elmo - use the concept of “Royalty” with Castles/Knights - Fables and Reader’s Theatre

 

 

Grade 3 Music

Sample Unit: Nature

- Metamorphosis

- Leaping Lizards

- Animals

- Build on the Concept of Friends and Foes

 

Resources

a) Charlotte Diamond - Song “Metamorphosis”

b) Teen-aged Mutant Ninja Turtles - movie

c) Song - “Let’s Get Loud”

d) Unit = Beethoven Lives Upstairs

 

 

Grade 3 Dance

Sample Unit: Space

- Fantasy

- Solar System

- The Sky

- Multicultural Integration - Local cultures-aboriginal dance

Resources:

a) Song - Joni Mitchell - “Clouds” - SASK Artist

b) Song -Theresa Sokryka - “Cruising” -SK Artist

c) Video - “BLUE’S CLUES” - Solar System using music and song

 

 

Grade 3 Visual Art

Sample Unit: Pottery

Discussion -- Pottery - what is in your communities?

 

Suggestions: Resources such as glaze and kilns may not be available

 

Consider referring to churches in your areas a) Stain Glass or b) Icon Walls

 

Become aware of this unit

 

5. Discussion and Question period

 

Through out - use music, video clips and prizes

 

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Grade Four Workshop

 

Renee Torwalt (Dance & Music Strand)

 

Grade 4 Dance Strand (1⁄2 hour)

 

Equipment Needed:

Overhead projector

TV/VCR

Teachers need Curriculum Guides

Video/DVD - Anne Green Gilbert – Teaching Creative Dance

Book – Anne Kipling Brown – Dance A-Z

CD player

 

Module 8 – Facilitator’s Binder

 

• Creative/Productive Component
• Philosophy of the Dance Strand - p.57 curriculum guide
• Dance Goals
• Review Dance Elements – p.75 curriculum guide
• Describe the 5 essential parts of making a dance lesson. – p.73 curriculum guide

 

Show:

 

 

Another good DVD and book from Anne Green Gilbert:

 

 

Activity

 

• Reflection – Gr. 4 learning objectives that were met in this activity. – p.87 curriculum guide

 

• Sample Topics across curriculum p. 235

 

 

 

Grade 4 Music Strand – 1⁄2 hour

 

Equipment Needed:

Overhead projector

TV/VCR

Teachers need Curriculum Guides

CD Player

 

Module 7 – Facilitator’s Binder

 

• Overview Charts and Sample
• Explore the Curriculum Guide
• Music Unit overviews and sample Units – p.153
• Philosophy and goals p.187
• Music elements
• Focus on the Artist Studies
• Look through the starter activities for Grade 4.
• Small groups can discuss lesson ideas from the task sheet OH 7.1

 

Show:

 

 

Activity - Cultural/Historical Component:

 

Review Sample Topics across curriculum p. 235