Grade: 1st

01 Mar 2021

Collaborative Storytelling

August-June

We work together in many ways every day. Join us at the Arts Center to work as a group of artists to create your own story through team building, music, theatre, and art.

Standards:

  • SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 1 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups
  • MU.1.2RE Describe how music communicates feelings, moods, images and meaning
  • VA.1.1PR Demonstrate beginning skill and craftsmanship in the use of art materials and tools

Vocabulary:

Collaboration, character, setting, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, teamwork

01 Mar 2021

Arts Center Adventure

August-June

From its detailed Norman-style architecture to its 1940s interior renovations, collections of artworks, its enormous Aeolian organ, and hundred-year-old history, the Greenacres Arts Center and its nearby farm and woodland has many stories to tell. Come to explore the hidden treasures of the Arts Center!

Standards:

  • SS.1.5 Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (landforms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
  • VA.1.3PE Examine one or more cultural and historical artworks and respond to the visual, expressive features in the work.
  • MU.1.7RE Discuss audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

Vocabulary:

Architecture, history, environment, compare/contrast, line, shape, organ, artwork, artifact

01 Mar 2021

Exploring the Senses

August-June

Have you ever considered how a color could smell? Or how a sound could move around? At the Arts Center, we are ready to explore the connections between our five senses, the artmaking process, and how one person changed the meaning of “art.”

Standards:

  • SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
  • VA.1.6PR Engage in artmaking to produce a work that combines music, movement or dramatic play with visual art.
  • MU.1.1CO Discuss how music communicates feelings, moods, images and meaning.
  • TH.1.6PR Work cooperatively to present a tableau, improvisation or pantomime.

Vocabulary:

Senses, taste, touch, smell, sound, sight, feelings, synesthesia, Wassily Kandinsky

26 Feb 2021

Nature Recycling

August-June

In nature, materials are recycled through a variety of processes with the help of fungus, bacteria, and invertebrates. Humans can also play a vital role in recycling. Students will explore the similarities and differences between natural and human recycling while experiencing the diverse habitats at Greenacres.

Standards:

Ohio

  • PS Grade 1: Properties of objects and materials can change.
  • LS Grade 1: Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
  • Government Strand: Civic Participation and Skills: Individuals have responsibility to take action toward the achievement of common goals in homes, schools and communities and are accountable for those actions.
  • Economics Strand: Scarcity: Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Individuals make choices because they cannot have everything they want.
  • Economics Strand: Production and Consumption: People produce and consume goods and services in the community.

NGSS

  • 1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Video Introduction and Vocabulary:

waste, reduce, reuse, recycle, landfill, decomposer, compost, cycle

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