Living Sky Band and Music Programs

October 22

This is a division-wide day and we will all be together at NBCHS. There are two sessions planned for Arts Education teachers – hope to see you all there! Does anyone have ideas or projects to share that day? Paul will be presenting on Musical Mud with Marg Parkinson and Crystal Needham (thanks Paul).

10:30am – 12:00pm “Arts Collaboration” in the Middle/Senior schools

Sharing exciting projects in the division (ie: “Musical Mud” and others)

Brainstorming ideas

Exploring with mixed media, arts integration

1:00pm – 3:00pm “Arts Collaboration” Projects from the Resource Box

Focus on K to 5, but easily applicable to older grades

Sharing exciting projects (ie: “Wild Things” and others)

Brainstorming ideas connected to the resource box

Exploring with mixed media, music, drama and dance

October 30 & 31st

Artist in the Classroom

Don’t forget to sign up for one of the Artists in the Classroom projects (your principal and Arts Alive rep have the info if you’ve not yet seen it). You might want to go join Scott Leithead (and an African intern) doing Choral work in Kerrobert. He has an amazing choir out of Edmonton “Kokopelli” and does a lot of work with exchanges to Africa. There are other artists too – you can even go outside of your field for something new if you like. Go to our wiki site for a full write up and click on “Artist in the Classroom”. Don’t miss it and book your days now and send your registration form in to me.

(By the way – this is considered Institutional PD and does not come out of your personal PD budget.)

November 26

Kevin Junk has agreed to come to Lawrence that afternoon for our PLC time. He will be going over instrument repairs and he wants you to bring some instruments with you to work on during the afternoon. Thanks for hosting us Barb!