Dance Share

Dear Second Grade families,

The last few weeks, your child has participated in five 45 min sessions of a FREE dance residency generously offered by Movement Research which is a well known organization located in the East Village that supports contemporary dance. This is their website if you are interested in seeing what they do.

 Bessie, the Movement Research teaching artist, and I would like to invite you to visit the EVCS dance studio for an informal showing of the movement ideas our young dancers have been working on.

 The sharing is scheduled on Monday at 10:10 am. We hope you can join us.

Best,

Ana

East Village Community School Dance Specialist

Spring Break

Enjoy a safe, relaxing, and sunny Spring Break with your family!

See you all at 8:30 on Wednesday, April 23rd!  (And remember:  If you're running late on Wednesday, we're in the dance studio until 9:15.)

Sand as a Building Tool

Today we finished our rock and soil study.  We have been exploring these Earth materials over the past few months and today we got to use one of them to build art sculptures.  We used a matrix made of water and cornstarch to build sand sculptures and explore the uses of rocks as artists.  These creations will be going home soon for your family to enjoy!

Into the Woods...and Caves

Yesterday we headed out in the beautiful weather and visited Inwood Hill Park.  We traveled to the northern tip of Manhattan to explore the natural habitats that the Lenape lived in hundreds of years ago. Inwood Hill Park is the only naturally found forest on the island of Manhattan.   We took lots of notes and sketches about what we heard and saw of the natural habitats. We found lots of different habitats that we had studied - cliffs, rocky beaches, forests, rivers, streams, and lots more!  We also went to see some caves that the Lenape spent time in when fishing and hunting in northern Manhattan.  The caves were so cool!

Publishing our Fairytales!

We first decided that published
books needed covers, title
pages, and dedication pages.
We then began adding to our
list in a "what else" section.  As
we publish, the list is growing!

As we wind down in our narrative writing unit, we are publishing hard-cover books to showcase our hard work from the month of March.

We have really been working hard to create revised and edited books that not only feature engaging characters and exciting plot-lines, but also show off well-planned dialog and edited paragraphs.  We have been using our drafts to publish our writing so that we can share it soon.

As we publish, we've also been charting what we notice published books often have.  From dedication pages to back-of-the-book blurbs, from enriching recipes to title pages, we are creating professional books.  We've been adding to our list as we publish so that we can continue being self-directed writers. We're all at different points in the publishing process but we're all taking control of our work, direction, and pace to complete what we think is important before the deadline.

Stay tuned for an upcoming publishing share!