Framingham Fine and Performing Arts
Outstanding Arts Education for Every Child
March 7, 2021
Things are looking up! Vaccines for educators (I got my first dose last Thursday), in person learning and rehearsals and some nice weather headed our way this week. It has been a long year and we are not at the finish line but it is in clearer sight than ever. As always thank you for your positivity and professionalism as we continue this journey. I am impressed and forever grateful.
This will be a short newsletter. It does have some important information for you so please take a few minutes and read.
Have a great week.
Donna
Inspiring Moments
Photos from the district
One More Week Until The Music Starts in Band Classes
Reminder PLAYING in Band Begins in Grade Five on March 15
PLEASE DO NOT BEGIN PLAYING BEFORE THIS DATE.and/or until the PPE is delivered. Ellen is staying on top of the shipping and will send out updates as she has them.
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In this newsletter I have also included the spreadsheet with your PPE requests. This is what we have ordered. Please let us know as soon as possible if you will need more (or don't need as much). We will do our best to get you what you need by the end of this week, Fingers crossed on our shipping date.
In this newsletter I have included links to the vendor to show you the PPE we have purchased. Your Principals have this information as well.
Framingham students will finally join their peers from the state who have been playing since September. I am confident you will join me in celebrating their excitement.
Use and Care Guide
- DO NOT use bleach
- DO NOT use fabric softeners
- DO NOT use harsh detergents or soaps
- AVOID washing garments in warm or hot water
- DO NOT soak or leave wet in a pile
- DO NOT heavily scrub, wring, or twist garments
- DO NOT bulk wash
- DO NOT dry clean
Lesson Plans and Resources to Inspire You!
March is Arts in Education Month- Arts Inspire the World
Art, Music, Theatre and Dance
An opportunity for this month from Cindy Moore
BSO
It's Boston Symphony Youth Concert Series Time!
This concert is available to stream from March 5 at 12PM EST through Friday, April 30. Please follow the link below to access the concert for your classroom:
Access the Youth Concert:
ACCESS THE YOUTH CONCERT HERE >
You can feel free to share this link with your students to give them access at home. The link goes out straight to the recipients with no need for Zoom.
Lesson plans and other educational materials created for this concert can be found here:
2021 BSO Youth Concert Supplementary Materials >
Both captioning and audio description for the 2021 Youth Concert are available, inviting audience members from the deaf and blind/low vision communities to participate more fully in the concert experience.
Learning for Justice Webinar
WEBINAR LINK: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3025773/19C10BF53778BEB6941F2B7E70373A3F?mode=login&email=dwresinski@framingham.k12.ma.us
Co-hosted by experts from the National Gallery of Art, this webinar will offer new understandings of American visual art and its role in helping us understand our history. You’ll also learn how art has been integral to activism and fights for justice. The webinar will cover how to integrate the visual arts into content areas such as ELA and social studies, including an overview of strategies for cross-curricular collaboration. Finally, using works from the National Gallery of Art and K-12 students, you will receive an overview of project and lesson ideas and discuss strategies for engaging in arts instruction. This webinar will help educators across all content areas create a more diverse and powerful curriculum. Join us!
K-5 Art and Music Teachers PD
K-5 Visual Art and Music Teachers Thursday March 11 early release
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Sarah has already successfully taught the music lesson (see above) so she will be lots of tips and tricks. It was inspiring to see and hear her kids make powerful connections to science and music. These lessons are not optional. We need to help our colleagues to get our kids ready for the Science standards, When you teach them and how you adapt them for your own kiddos is of course up to you.
I have included links to these lessons below. Mark your calendars now please. Special thanks to Andrea, Sam and Sarah (and PJ) for making this collaboration a reality.
Art
Message from PJ:
Greetings, art teachers!!
Thank you so much for bringing magnetism to life in an authentic context for our grade 5 students. In Science they learn magnetism as part of the following standard:
5-PS1-3. Make observations and measurements of substances to describe characteristic properties of each, including color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility.
The emphasis is on structure and function - that different materials have characteristics based on their structure and that because of those characteristics they can have different functions. In Science they learned how magnets are used to sort iron from piles of recycling. Usually we would do an activity where there were all kinds of things mixed up and they would have to separate them using what they know about the properties of each. Iron filings are mixed in, so they separate those with a magnet. Then they might think about getting the mixture wet to separate the soluble substances. This year, we weren't able to provide that hands on activity for them, so we are so grateful that Andrea and Sam have put together this wonderful lesson that shows the students how magnetic materials can be used by artists in so many different ways.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out!
Sincerely,
PJ
Marcia
Donna A Wresinski
Email: dwresinski@framingham.k12.ma.us
Website: https://www.framingham.k12.ma.us/Domain/74
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