Sticky Board Performances: Grade 4 Gorden and Bevis

More music talents in Grade 4!

Watch Gorden playing his saxophone and Bevis as a piano man this time!

Grade 4 Performing Arts - Project: A Drama Dice

The project "Drama Dice, Story starters!" encourages the 4th graders to improvise stories on the spot including a specific character and developing this character in a small story of theirs.

The idea is very simple and very effective as well.

They all need to create their paper dice (all the remaining paper is used as weight inside their dice so nothing is a waste :) and they need to choose every time different characters from a paper with various images (baby, witch, dragon, superhero, pirate etc.) stick the selected 6 characters on their dice and start the drama game:
They roll the dice and they come up with a "story-on-the-spot".

Enjoy some pictures from their first day:

Music Gallery from the Grade 2

As usual, every year around this time the Grade 2s are creating small miracles with the music notes and the basic music terms.

Using the project "Gallery Of Music" suggested by Joy Morin (2012) the students need to draw the music sign or term,  but using it creatively and including it in a bigger picture of a life event (for more music galleries please check previous years).

Here are some of the artworks that are really inspired, and are teaching us all that music is still alive and fresh!

Stay tuned for more brilliant ideas in our next posts!

Our Shakespeare winners in Grade 5

Kindergarten is making finger puppets :)

The finger puppets are a great Drama start for smaller ages.

The fact that each student can choose to play by him/herself or to include some friends and improvise a story with their finger puppets is a huge boost to their fantasy and creative.

Enjoy some of our pictures in PA class:

Sticky Board for Grade 4

Let's Be Happy! ( A music video by the HIS Performing Arts Students)

After two weeks of shooting and quite a long time of editing it :) our much anticipated music video is out on the air!
Enjoy the dancing efforts (and the happiness) of our PA students from Grades 1 - 6

Grade 4s and Shakespeare

It is very interesting to observe how our little Grade 4s are interpreting the plays of Shakespeare.
I asked them, as their final project for the literacy week to make a theatrical poster and to include the main point of the book .
Some of them drew the setting, some of them used actual lines from the book and some of them went really deep.
The first 4 posters are displayed at the library :)

1st place: Ayden with his "King Lear" - 2nd place: Wilbur with his "Richard III", 3rd place our "unknown" student with the "Tempest" and fourth place, Taichi with his "Macbeth"

You may enjoy more artwork of Shakespeare's plays on your way to the library:

"Othello" by Shunta

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Hannah

"Antony and Cleopatra" by Maria

"Julius Ceasar" by Edison

"Hamlet" by Julia

"Romeo and Juliet" by Abigail

Grade 8 - Pantomime Class (2)

This time, we are trying to achieve through pantomime the combination of physical actions and reactions.

Enjoy our little video :

Grade 8 - Pantomime Class (1)

We love to share our efforts with you!

This is a video from our very first class in Pantomiming, where we learned how to pantomime a simple physical action, like wearing our jacket.

Meet our actors and actresses and  watch our tries :)