Arts Integration & Community Connections
Our Science & Visual Art partnership with Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum enhances student study of insects of Waters School Garden. This class is painting scientific illustrations based on Maria Sybilla Merian's botanical delights!
This is a 9 week partnership with shared teaching among all! Ultimately, this learning will be used as we design our outdoor mason bee pollinator zone. We hope to create a functioning habitat to support all of our critters! Stay tuned...
Arts Integration & Community Connections
Our Language Arts & Visual Art poetry project spring-boarded our Chicago Bronzeville unit featuring Gwendolyn Brooks' work as an artist and activist. It is the LAUNCH for our ECO-ART Fest and our Semester 2 study of Chicago---from many voices, many lenses and many perspectives... Our classroom haiku poetry challenge,"View the the city from the perspective of the Chicago River in your poem," was utilized for entry to Harold Washington Library City-wide Haiku Festival. Bravo ALL!
All-City Winners: Julian, Emily and Sasha!
Arts Integration & Community Connections
Our Humanities and Social Justice connections with the Friends of the Chicago River is both enhancing our study of our city, our local river history and our learning as active global citizens.
Our artworks will be displayed at Friends' McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum throughout 2023 season. The outreach poster contest theme is “Taking Action for a Litter Free River,” and celebrates the upcoming 31st annual Chicago River Day on May 13, 2023. See below for more ways to work together.
M&M Club & Critter Club
Our M&M Club has harvested the pumpkin seeds from composted pumpkins last fall for one of our activites at our ECO-ART Fest...and created our SECRET GARDEN for mason bees and other critters to make a safe space.
Our M&M Club has also guerilla planted quite a bit of milkweed around the nation since our pen pal days of the pandemic:))...
M&M Club is in charge of our Wavemaker Table at Springapolooza 2023.
Critter Club will be presenting Edible Ants to Ms. Beza's class during Maker Week:). We prototyped last week---yummm...
Literary Salon & Grrl Scouts
Literary Salon Club members are taking on our Big Night theme---stars--- and of course turning them into sea stars...
Madeline J. wrote our poem for our Essentials chair:)!
Our BOOK BUS made it to 3rd grade but its been a busy month...More in June!
Literary Salon members will be ambassadors to Makers during Maker Week.
Girl Scouts have donated BEE-autiful bling to women taking action against domestic violence in our communities.
Grrl Scouts will be our leaders as we bivouac at Ronan Park during Riverfest!
ALT & S.O.S Crew
Our Arts Leadership Team/ S.O.S Crew has created positive awareness of the clean-up Chicago River and all WATER(S) habitats.
Our S.O.S Crew has developed a monthly lunchtime sale of handmade objects to promote water protection worldwide. We have shared our passion for the sea, clean water and equity for all with students each month during lunch while running a small pop-up art fair!
This year we have raised nearly $600 for our Eco-Art Fest, Springapolooza and Riverfest action activities. We will also be donating a portion of our profits to Friends of the Chicago River.
S.O.S Crew will be docents and faciliatators for ECO-ART Fest 23!
CHICAGO RIVER DAY riverfest @ ronan park 5/13 9AM-NOON
New this year: Let's bring our good work to our adopted River Day clean-up site, the Bird & Butterfly Sanctuary and Healing Sculpture Garden at Ronan Park (3000 W. Argyle St. or East of Global Gardens on Lawrence St. at the Chicago River)!
Let's clean-up OUR river, practice stewardship and pride-of-place, look for insects, prototype Dave the Duck * at the docks, make art, have a picnic and learn about our native habitat (and waste treatment) as a culminating event to celebrate environmental artistry, advocacy and changemaking this year!
Sound good? Let's go:)!
Restrooms nearby at River Park.
* Iterated by Yousef & Oliver R. from a design presented at the 2023 Chicago River Day Congress! Thank you for your commitment to improving local, real world awareness and collecting authentic data on Chicago River water quality!
Any questions?
Email: alvecchioni@cps.edu
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Location: 4540 North Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Phone: 773.534.5090
