Welcome December and snow!

Thanks to K-5 Art and Music teachers for meeting this week. Just a reminder to edit your sub plans. No Quaver Music included in sub plans please and simple one page assignments (via a smore or google slide with a video introduction) is the request. Less is more on asynchronous days.

There are three universal distribution days set aside for elementary schools. Jan 14 is our first one after the new year. PLEASE provide Ellen with what you would like included in these art bags. A reminder we will be looking for ways to work in collaboration with OT in your buildings to include that work into your already planned lessons in the art classrooms.

If I sent you the template for your formative meeting I would appreciate it if you could get that back to me this week.

The district is pivoting to a fully remote platform effective tomorrow December 7. If you have any questions about how that affects you please reach out to your Principal or to me. If you need support please let me know.

Character Traits of the Month should be embedded into your lessons K-5.

High School- if there are applications you need once we shift to hybrid- please let me know now.

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This week we release The Mitten. It seems appropriate with our snowstorm to bring this book to your classrooms this week.

This is the fourth in our series. We plan to release them all to you by the winter break.

The student director and Chris and I paid a visit to Andrea Baer's classroom this week as she introduced Wocket in My Pocket. The students were full of questions and excitement and many of them shared their own passion for theatre and art with us. This was truly a highlight of our week. If you plan to use any of our films to accompany these books in your classroom please remember to invite me and I will do my best to bring in a few guest artists.

Thank you for supporting all our kids!

Walsh, under the direction of Sheron Doucette and Fuller under the direction of Olivia Moriarty put the finishing touches on their virtual weekend of theatre! Hundreds of people tuned in to see these two shows! Congratulations to the theatre companies and their directors.

I am sure it is difficult to comprehend the loss these teachers and students are feeling. Teri at Cameron, Sheron at Walsh and Olivia at Fuller gave their students and their audiences a chance to live together in art for a few hours over the past few weekends. I am beyond grateful.. The technology learning curve is something none of us expected to have to travel- but travel they did!

Thank you to the audiences, the kids, the administration and especially to these teachers. If you got a chance to see these you can certainly start to understand the hundreds of hours it took to bring this work to life. I know the kids and I are beyond grateful.

SAVE THE DATE

The Holiday Jamboree

A Virtual Celebration

Featuring the 2020-2021 Advanced Acting Class

A series of long-form monologues celebrating the spirit of the season

Saturday, December 19th

7:30pm

Ticket Info below

All proceeds from tickets benefit

Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids.

Meanwhile- not to outdone- the Middle School Jazz Band directors are planning a DISTRICT virtual concert on January 21.

On January 21, 2021 we will be holding our grade level Winter Band Showcase. It will be held on Zoom and will feature all members of the Cameron, Fuller and Walsh Bands. The Schedule will be as follows:

6:30pm - Grade 6 Band

7:00pm - Grade 7 Band

7:30pm - Grade 8 Band

We are putting together a video for the closing of our Showcase. Please submit by December 18th.

More details on the link as we get closer!

DESE has not commented or updated guidance for us but this is cautiously optimistic. Ellen will be ordering the band PPE. Once I unpack this report I will send you my take-aways. The thing that has not changed is that you will need PPE for the instruments, even recorders, and we will need to maintain 6-10 feet between kids both inside and outside. Additionally this recommendation includes singers, actors and dancers as well. Again- THIS HAS NOT BEEN ADOPTED BY DESE YET. So- as we return, thinking about where you will be meeting with your kiddos is critical. More as I understand it.

From Erin-

"art meets music" artwork my student made. It was so creative and they came up with it completely on their own

They learned about this awesome lego artist (Nathan Sawaya) and could "build" their own artwork using any materials (legos, blocks, books, toys, cups, a drawing tools that makes squares so it looks block like etc) and this student did these!

Sue Petroni from the Framingham Source reached out to me. She was interested in using student work as her artwork in the Source, She is using a database of images but thought it would be a wonderful collaboration to showcase the work of our student artists. This week Kelly from Walsh completed her unit and shared students images. Sue has already used several of them and looks forward to using many more.

Maria at Walsh plans to start this unit next week. If any other teachers would like to provide this opportunity for your students please let me know. High School???

Congrats to the Walsh students and Kelly!

But before you do please enjoy this spirit of the season. Kyle Stamm, a graduate of the Framingham High School Drama Company and a junior at Ithaca studying lighting design used his talents while in remote learning to bring this light show to Framingham. Great work Kyle!

https://www.facebook.com/kyle.e.stamm/posts/1789711561177513

Best
Donna

Director, Fine and Performing Arts Department

Email: dwresinski@framingham.k12.ma.us
Website: https://www.framingham.k12.ma.us/Domain/74
Phone: 508 782 7770
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FraminghamFPA/

:Let me know what you are reading and we will share the titles in this newsletter!

"Mine is quite unconventional but a absolutely fascinating and surprisingly the author made it quite comical"

Marie:

I'm currently reading "Untamed" by Glennon Doyle. HIGHLY recommend. Happy Sunday!

Teri is reading this right now..