Grade: 5th

01 Mar 2021

Self Expression Through the Arts

August-June

Spend the day with us to unlock your students’ creativity and artistic spirit! Discover different artistic mediums of expression in music, theatre, and visual arts. This program is all about trying new things!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MU.5.3RE Describe how the process of learning in music connects to learning in other arts and other subject areas.
  • VA.5.5PE Focus attention on selected artworks to identify and pose questions about aesthetic qualities (e.g., sensory, organizational, emotional) in the works.
  • TH.5.1CE Investigate how past and present drama, theater and storytelling forms of various cultural groups reflect their beliefs and traditions.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.G.5.10 The Western Hemisphere is culturally diverse (e.g., language, food, religion, art, music) due to the influences and interactions of a variety of world cultures.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.B1.1.b Demonstrate strategies to express a range of emotions within the expectations of the setting

Vocabulary:

self-expression, color, culture, performance, aesthetic

01 Mar 2021

Patterns Around Us

August-June

Patterns exist in every facet of our lives. Spend time slowing down to discover patterns around the Arts Center that often go unnoticed. We will then use the shapes we uncover to inspire us as we create our own works of art filled with patterns!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.5.1PR Integrate observational and technical skills to strengthen artmaking
  • VA.5.4PR Select and use the elements and principles of art and design to communicate understanding of an interdisciplinary concept

Ohio Math Standards:

  • MP.5.7 Look for and make use of structure.
  • MP.5.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Vocabulary:

line, shape, pattern, repetition, observation, architecture, stained glass

01 Mar 2021

Improv 101

August-June

We all have an inner critic in our minds that tries to bring us down. Through the art of improvisation, we strengthen our inner champion– empowering the ways we can encourage ourselves. Improvisation is rooted in open-mindedness, listening deeply to others, and trusting your own instincts–skills that serve us in every avenue of life. Test out your acting skills and see how easily you can come up with a joke, all while having fun and building confidence with classmates.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.5.4PR Work cooperatively in different roles or jobs within a dramatic and theatrical experience
  • TH.6.1PR Create and perform improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience, imagination or heritage.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.D1.1.b Apply active listening and effective communication skills to increase cooperation and relationships

    Vocabulary:

    improvisation, collaboration, listening, suggestion, motivation, scene, sweep the scene, character

    28 Feb 2021

    Maps and Topography

    August-June

    Maps come in all shapes and sizes and they are useful in many different ways. Students will explore how land surfaces are represented on different styles of flat and topographic maps as well as how different maps are used.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • SS Grade 5: Geography – Globes and other geographic tools can be used to gather, process and report information about people, places and environments. Cartographers decide which information to include in maps.

    NGSS Standards:

    • 5-ESS2-1. Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. 

    Vocabulary:

    topography, contours, scale, legend, symbol, degrees, orientation

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