Students Use Technology to Review Their Music Lessons

Mrs. Angela Padilla, one of our music teachers at Caraway, has embedded YouTube videos of songs that the students listen to in class onto her website.  These songs relate to what they are learning in class.  The piece may have the rhythm or pitch they are learning about, or it may be something for fun.  They listen to just a few minutes of it in class, but are encouraged to listen to the full example at home.  Go to Mrs. Padilla's website to enjoy!

Drama from Caraway's Own Mini-Venue

Ms. Wilczynski's 3rd grade Language Arts class performed skits as a Drama unit project. Students chose from a number of Reader's Theatre plays for children, practiced their reading fluency and intonation in character, and performed in our own outdoor mini-venue! Ms. W. filmed the plays on a Flip Camera, then edited the videos in Windows Movie Maker. To share with parents, teachers, and the students, the videos are posted on Ms. W.'s private YouTube channel, which is unlisted (meaning not searchable or in the public domain). Links to the videos can be found on Ms. W.'s TeacherWeb page!  

El’ Anatsui, the Artist, is Showcased in Art through Technology

El' Anatsui was born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana and attended the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi , in central Ghana, and began teaching at the University of Nigeria , Nsukka , in 1975 ^[
Anatsui's preferred media are clay  and wood , which he uses to create objects based on traditional Ghanaian beliefs and other subjects. He has cut wood with chainsaws  and blackened it with acetylene  torches; more recently, he has turned to installation art . Some of his works resemble woven cloths such as kente  cloth. Anatsui also incorporates uli , adinkra  and nsibidi  into his works alongside Ghanaian motifs
El Anatsui has exhibited his work around the world, including…. Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New York;   Liverpool Biennial National Museum of African Art , Washington, D.C   Venice Biennale   Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona  Hayward Gallery, London (Wikipedia 10/17/11)

El’ Anatsui  

Ms. Conti and Ms. Raybourn are inspiring their art students while showing an YouTube about the artist focused and sharing bits of research from Wikipedia.  They also display textile for design features.

Caraway's 4th graders are getting ready to see his pieces at UT's  Blanton Museum of Art on November 11, 2011.  The PTA is making the field trip possible, and students are learning so much about creativity, history, and visual art language from this project.
The Art classes will be extending the project later in the year with a collaborative multimedia  Anatsui- inspired collaboration of our own, so stay tuned.  It'll be exhibited on our campus at a later date to be determined.
Parents are welcome to join the 4th graders for the field trip and a number of chaperones are needed.