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Arts a la Carte Department of Visual and Performing Arts October 2019 — November 2019
Westfield Public Schools Westfield New Jersey
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Jean Lehmberg holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Montclair State University and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education from Rutgers University. She taught kindergarten in Hillsborough Township prior to starting her family and began substitute teaching in Westfield in 2012. Mrs. Lehmberg is delighted to be starting her first year teaching art at Wilson Elementary School. She also enjoys gardening, ceramics, traveling, and spending time with her family.
Wilson – Art Kirsten Meyer is the General Music and Chorus teacher at Jefferson Elementary. Prior to coming to Westfield, Mrs. Meyer taught band and general music for seven years at Stockbridge Valley, near Syracuse, New York. Most recently, she taught elementary general music and chorus in the Clifton Public Schools. Mrs. Meyer holds a Bachelor in Music and a Masters in Music Education from Syracuse University. She is fully certified in Orff, completing her levels at the Eastman School of Music and has completed the first level of World Music Drumming. In her free time, Mrs. Meyer plays the French horn in several community ensembles. She loves to travel, and especially loves to plan trips for her and her family. Jefferson - Music Danielle Sarnowski holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education from The College of New Jersey. She has been working with young artists since 2012 and is eager to bring her passion for learning, art, and creativity to both McKinley and Jefferson. Ms. Sarnowski’s goal is to help all kids explore and enjoy the artistic process. Her other interests include ceramics, traveling, cooking and baking, trying new restaurants, and being outdoors. McKinley & Jefferson - Art Heather Diliberto holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from The University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction along with a Supervisor Certification from Caldwell University. Mrs. Diliberto began her teaching career at Freehold Township High School. When not teaching and exploring the arts she enjoys family time with her husband and 3 children, coaching her daughter’s softball team, playing in her women’s softball league and being a passionate “foodie.” Mrs. Diliberto is dedicated to educating children through the arts. She strongly believes the fundamentals and principles of art allow for personal experimentation and individual choices, which in turn lead to innovative thinkers. Edison Intermediate - Art
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Westfield
High School
Art
Drawing Students began the year working on pre-instructional
Drawings. They then started
becoming familiar with new drawing materials that will be used
throughout the course. The first homework assignment was given as
a baseline reference to see growth
later in the year. They were also introduced to their Process Board
procedure and how to document and self-assess their creative
process and finished work. Drawing students will begin an intense
investigation into observational
drawing and classical drawing techniques.
Composition classes have been investigating the Elements of Art
and Principles of Design. They then moved on to reading how other
artists have come to understand the
importance of intentional composition to their work and
communication with the viewer. Investigation into historical
armatures will be introduced and
students will create mini-armature projects that will be used as a
reference for all future Composition projects.
Advanced Portfolio Prep (Art IV) students began the year with
creating self-portrait projects. They have been introduced to their Sr.
Exhibition Wall assignment. Each
student will curate and hang their own exhibition wall. Art IV Sr.
Exhibitions are displayed on the second floor of the high school near
the Art Office. Each student’s
exhibition will run consecutively, for approximately 15 days, from
October to May.
The stress of being a senior and in
many cases creating a portfolio for college admissions is overwhelming
for most students. As part of Social Emotional Learning awareness, ART
IV students celebrate and create for International Dot Day. This year
they created over a two-day period,
hitting all components of SEL as they worked through the creative
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process. After releasing a little bit of
anxiety, it was back to work. Art IV students read up on critique
methods and participate in class critiques of their first homework
assignment.
Ceramics 1 students are enjoying
the world of clay. So far, they have created several different types of
pinch pots. They were first given a ball of clay and told to make a pinch
pot without any other instructions.
This allowed them a chance to experience the clay in their own
way. They were then given a pinch pot demonstration and created a
second pinch pot. They also had to
draw on a pinch pot, create a unique and altered pinch pot, pinch
a pot with their eyes closed, and turn their pinch pots into some type
of character by attaching clay to
give it a face.
Ceramics 2 classes have been hard
at work creating vessels with three openings. The first vessels were
created using the pinch pot method,
and the second ones are made up of one pinch pot, one coil, and one
slab all attached to one another. This is a great project to help them
review the basic ceramic techniques
required for this class.
The Foundations of Art class is exploring all forms of the element of
art, Line. They started with Blind Contour line drawing (pictured on
the next page). After learning, that
the main purpose of Blind Contour Line drawing is to learn how to
“see” or “observe” better, students covered their drawing hands with a
sheet of paper so that they could not see their pencils. The goal was
to create drawings of their hand
holding a flower, or a self-portrait using continuous Blind Contour Line
drawing techniques. The results are bizarre and abstracted, but also
uniquely beautiful. After completing
the Blind Contour Line drawings, students were introduced to
Expressionistic art to look at the use of color. Color was then applied to
the Blind Contour Line drawings
with an emphasis on value changes using chalk pastels. Students will
continue with traditional continuous contour line drawings after
completing the blind portraits.
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The Computer Graphic Design I
classes are researching the origins of our current Roman alphabet and
comparing it with alphabets of other cultures as well as ancient
pictograms. After choosing a word
or phrase, the students found a culture that was of interest to them
and translated their phrase into characters or pictograms. After
sketching the pictograms, the
students were introduced to traditional paper embossing
techniques. The students hand embossed their pictograms onto
paper to give them the illusion of depth. Next the students will scan
their pictogram characters onto the
computer and use Adobe Photoshop’s “computer embossing”
techniques to give the illusion that their characters are carved into a
surface. The students will be using
original photos of stone, wood, etc., along with background environment
photos, and will create the illusion that their pictogram characters are
carved into an ancient tablet.
Students in Dr. Ruggieri’s
Foundations of Art classes started the year by learning about some of
the purposes of art and the art making experience. One purpose of
art making is to be a form of
meditation or a way to relieve stress. In keeping with this idea, the
first project students created was a Zentangle. Zentangle is a type of
free-flowing yet purposeful doodle
that incorporates a variety of patterns. The creation of a
Zentangle is meant to be meditative as each student focuses on how the
implement (marker, pencil, pen, etc.) glides across the paper, letting
each mark flow from their fingertips.
After making their Zentangles, discussion of the Element of Art
known as Line took place. This was the central art element within their
Zentangle works. This discussion
included distinctions between analytic and expressive lines and
some ways different artists may use each type of line. Subsequent to
this, students studied the idea of
contour line and blended both expressive and analytic line styles.
As we progress through the year, students will build on these
foundational skills.
In World Crafts Sampler,
students began the year by discussing works of art that may be
functional or purely aesthetic. Their
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first project blended the two by
creating a needle-felted pillow based on a landscape of their
choosing. Students used felt as a background and proceeded to paint
with wool as they build layer upon
layer to create rich tones in a myriad of scenes ranging from
serene sunsets to awe-inspiring mountain vistas. Once students
completed their needle felting, they
learned how to sew the pillow together to create not only a
functional object, but also a beautiful art piece sure to brighten
up any décor.
Students enrolled in the full year
crafts course, Crafts Exploration, have created original hand-sewn
puppets. Their unique designs
started with brainstorming sessions on how to create a new creature
using elements from several different sources. Based on their
drawings, students learned how to
take a two-dimensional design and turn it into a three-dimensional
puppet using a variety of sewing techniques.
Music
WHS Concert Bands
The WHS Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band and Concert Band
are off to a wonderful start for the 2019/2020 school year. All three
ensembles are preparing literature
for their winter concert to be held 7pm, December 5, in the WHS
Auditorium. On December 14, Several WHS band students will
travel to JP Stevens High School to audition for the CJMEA honor
ensembles. We would like to wish all
students auditioning the best of luck as they represent the WHS Band!
WHS Jazz Bands
Auditions for the WHS Jazz Bands
will take place in November. Bands will begin rehearsal in January and
will perform at regional jazz festivals throughout the winter and spring.
Don’t miss the seventh annual
Westfield Jazz Night on Saturday, May 9 in the WHS Courtyard.
WHS Winterguard
Auditions will be held in early December for students interested in
WHS Winterguard’s sixth season!
There is no experience needed. Students should have an interest in
dance, music and be willing to learn new skills. Contact Mr. Vitale for
more information at:
cvitale@westfieldnjk12.org
WHS Marching Band
The 2019 edition of the WHS
Marching Blue Devils is embarking on another busy competitive
season. The band, under the leadership of drum majors Theresa
Lizzo, Christian Sawina, and Robbie
Strauss held two weeks of band camp in August and has been
rehearsing daily after school since the start of the school year. This
year’s show is entitled “…the Light” and features music by 20th Century
American Composer, Samuel
Barber. On October 5, the band will travel to College Park, MD to
compete in the Bands of America Regional. On November 2, the band
will perform at the USBands
Regional Championship.
Band Camp in August
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This year’s marching band staff:
Directors
Christopher Vitale and Trevor Sindorf
Assistant Director
Aaron Staluppi
Additional Staff Clay Beyert, Alfred Braza, Julia
Cardillo, Karen Colabaugh, Alex DiFabio, James Doyle, Brian Horn,
Margarita Manzano, Daniel Matos, Chelsea McFarland, John Scozzaro,
and Cedric Thomas.
2019 WHS Marching Blue Devils
Student Staff Drum Majors Theresa Lizzo
Christian Sawina
Robbie Strauss
Brass Section Leaders Majeed Assadi
Zach Fischer
Tom Greene Jasni McGrail
Jason Paden Max Tennant
Aprina Wang
Woodwind Section Leaders Lily Cassidy Tia Lemberg
Rachel Markowitz Amanda Paden
Dustin Paden Morgan Rollins
Julia Tompkins
Percussion Section Leaders
David Criscuolo Tommy Davis
Ian Gurland
Lauren Henkel Colorguard Captains
Emily Greenzang Paige Macry
Jessica Rokshar
The WHS Bands would like to thank
the WHS Band Parent Association for all of their support throughout
the school year.
2019/2020
Band Parent Association Executive Board members
Melissa Ackerman & Lisa Switlyk:
Co-Presidents
Sarah McGrail: Vice President Steve Criscuolo: Treasurer
Eileen Blancato: Recording Secretary
Heather Bryant: Corresponding
Secretary Mindi Metz: All-Bands
Cheryl Paden & Melanie Sawina: Hospitality
Margaret Chinn & Rebecca Kelly: Fundraising
Marcy Lechner: Publicity
To keep up with all the exciting news in the Westfield Band
program, follow online at:
www.westfieldhsbands.org
WHS Bands Friends, Family, and Alumni
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Westfield High School Bands
In these first few weeks, we have
started our work on vocal
fundamentals in all choir classes. Students have been working on
breathing techniques, vowel shaping, sight singing, Solfege, and
ear training.
We have just begun work on our
winter concert with a Masterwork for our Concert Choir, holiday
favorites for the Mixed Choir and
unique pieces for Bella Cora and Chorale/Choraleers.
WHS Chorale sings at 9-11
Memorial Service downtown
Westfield- The Chorale was invited by our mayor to perform the
National Anthem at the annual 9-11 Memorial Service, which was very
special in that these students were
either born or about to be 18 years ago. It was very moving to see life
moving forward with these amazing students despite our country’s
terrible loss.
Guys Night of Singing- October
25, Westfield High School. The WHS, EIS, and RIS vocal
departments are teaming up to present the second annual “Guys
Night of Singing.”
The event will include students from
7th-12th grade, district teachers, dads, alumni, and community
members. The event will take place
from 6-8:30 PM in a jam session format, with a special performance
by the GrooveBarbers, a male a capella group who were originally in
Rockapella. All are Welcome for the performance by the Groovebarbers,
which starts at 8:00pm.
Please email Mr. Brzozowski @ jbrzozowski@westfieldnjk12.org, if
you are a male and can participate in this event.
You do not need to have a great (or even good) voice; this is about
supporting the young men in Westfield and showing them that
singing is a worthwhile endeavor! Your presence during the night is
enough - the more the merrier!
PLEASE SEE Guys Night of Singing flyer
on page 21
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WHS Choir Leadership Council
and Westfield Choral Parents Association- The Choir department
welcomes our new student and parent support organizations!
Thanks to the Choir leadership
Council and the Westfield Choral Parents for their continued support
and involvement.
WHS Choir Leadership Council
President Rachel Seiden
Vice President
Lindsay Sherman
Secretary/Treasurer
Vincent Mora Elisa Saint-Denis
Choir Technology/Website Managers
Alex Sica
Choir Librarians
McKenzie Waddell, Ali Lisanti
Choir Managers
Lydia Nisita, Matt Meixner, Kayla Louison, Mia Johnson
Choir Historian
Sean Marner, Katherine Wistner
WCPA Board
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Sheryl Seiden, President
Scott Singer, VP Fundraising Jenny Tananbaum, Marketing Chair
Vicki Simpson, Treasurer
Roseann Pagano Pizzi, Secretary
Chorale will sing the National Anthem for the annual Play for
Pink Volley Ball Game- What can we say? Our Chorale and their
National Anthem is in demand. We
will open the games for the annual Play for Pink Volleyball game on
October 11! Come support this amazing charity event.
WHS Orchestra
The WHS Orchestras are off to an exciting start to the school year!
This year we have exciting opportunities in store for all of our
performing groups. Preparations are
already underway for our first major fundraiser of the school year. On
October 19, the Chamber Orchestra will be performing and having a
Bake Sale, hosted by Raymour and
Flanigan in Watchung. The performances and bake sale will
take place from 11am to 3pm in the Raymour and Flanigan showroom.
Please stop by and support our students as we raise funds for the
WHS Orchestra program!
In the meantime, the WHS
Orchestras are preparing for a number of exciting events planned
for throughout this school year. This
year the WHS Orchestras will be pushing the envelope with some
great performance opportunities and concerts. This includes
collaborations with other school
groups, as well as, some memorable performances. We are looking
forward to a great year and hope to see you at our performances and
events!
Drama
WHS Fall Drama
Performance dates:
Nov. 21 at 4:00pm Nov. 22 & 23 at 7:30pm
This fall, the Westfield High School
Theater Department will be producing the historical drama
Radium Girls, By D.W. Gregory. The
production will be performed at the
high school auditorium Thursday November 21 at 4:00 pm and Friday
and Saturday, the 22nd and 23rd, at 7:30 pm.
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international
celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage – until the girls who
painted them began to fall ill with a
mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the
efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court.
Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an
idealistic man who cannot bring
himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could
have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his
employees. As the case goes on,
however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S.
Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear
that her campaign for justice will
backfire. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics,
Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly
American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization
of science.
WHS students participate in auditions of the fall production
of Radium Girls
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WHS Drama
The Westfield High School drama students are once again back in
class and engaged in furthering their studies of the world of theatre.
All three levels of the theatre courses began the new school year
with a focus on diction and physical
work as well as the audition process. From there, each individual
class set out to explore various elements of the theatre.
In Intro to Theatre, the students
have just completed their work on the vocal and physical areas of
performance and will soon begin an
investigation of the Roman Theatre and its contributions to world
theatre. In addition to the historical aspects of the period, the students
will also examine the specific
elements from the time period still seen in contemporary theatre via
the performance of scenes from a contemporary American comedy.
The Theatre Workshop students are
involved in exploring the world of Shakespeare and his myriad
theatrical contributions. This study
will include an in-depth study of the world of Shakespeare as well as the
study and performance of scenes from both The Comedy of Errors and Julius Caesar.
In Advanced Theatre Technique, the students are studying Epic Theatre
and the Theatre of the Absurd,
which includes the contributions of playwright Beckett and Brecht. The
students will explore the major contributions of this historical period
as well as the playwrights who lead
this movement. This research will include the study and performance
of scenes from classic works such as Mother Courage and Her Children
and Waiting for Godot.
WHS students are exploring the
world of technical theatre in the Stagecraft course. The students are
engaged in learning the various jobs that exist in the technical theatre
and the numerous employment opportunities they present.
Currently, the students are learning
the fundamentals of scenic design and stage construction. According to
Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”, and the WHS theatre
students are preparing to make
their entrance!
Roosevelt
Intermediate
Art
The 6th grade students in Mr.
Thompson’s classes are finishing this marking period with large
crayon batik tiki designs. We began by studying the origin and
significance of tiki carving in Polynesian culture. We looked at
many different examples, noting the
exaggerated, simplified facial features and fierce expressions.
Students then drew half a tiki on a folded piece of paper, transferred it
to the blank side, and then colored
it with a heavy layer of crayon. Once colored, we crumpled them up
several times to create cracks in the waxy crayon. Finally, we covered
our designs in a layer of black
tempera paint, then wiped most of it off while it was still wet. The black
paint stayed in the cracks in the crayon, creating a striking antique-
looking effect. Lastly, we cut them
out and mounted them on torn
brown paper. Awesome!
The students in Mr. Thompson’s 8th
grade crafts classes have just
finished a super cool lesson using scratchboard and collage. We paged
through magazines to find a full body photo of a person. We
carefully cut out only the visible skin
parts, glued them on a sheet of gold or silver scratchboard, and then
reimagined the clothes, hair, and background. We were inspired by
Zentangles to create designs, and
explored the many textural possibilities inherent in working with
scratchboard. The results are fantastical and very dramatic!
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Music
RIS Chorus Vocal Music Classes at RIS have
been off to a great start. In 7th
grade, we began studying Blues music! Students have learned the 12
bar blues form and are modeling melodies so they can write their
own blues tunes. We are using three different melodies for their
models and working in groups will
create their own blues tunes. We have also been reviewing rhythm
patterns as well as singing solfeggio and are learning accidental solfeggio
this week.
Eighth grade classes have been
having a great time singing some fun pop tunes and creating their
own arrangements adding vocal harmonies that they have come up
with. The group has also been hard at work sharpening their solfeggio
skills. We are working on ear
training using singing on solfeggio through rounds and pop songs. The
students are having a blast and they sound great! We are looking
forward to a fun, and productive
year.
Music
RIS Bands
Mr. Doyle, Mr. Freeman, and Mrs. Colabaugh are excited to welcome
back all of the band students at RIS. This year, over 170 students will
participate in the 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade bands, the jazz program, the Afternoon Ramble, and the chamber
music program. It is shaping up to be an exciting and event filled year!
The 6th grade band is already showing signs of improvement.
Even though it has only been a few weeks, they understand what it
takes to be a great ensemble, and they have demonstrated excellent
rehearsal etiquette, technique, and
performance. The 7th grade band
has picked up where they left off, rehearsing chorales, technique
exercises, and sight-reading exercises at a high level. They are
just beginning to rehearse music for
the winter concert. The 8th grade band has begun preparations for
our annual Veteran’s Day Assembly, which will take place on the morning
of Monday November 11. This event
honors all of those who have served in our armed forces, and the band is
grateful for the small role we play in this wonderful event.
On Saturday September 21, some of
our 8th graders participated in the annual 8th Grade Day with the
Westfield High School Marching
Band. This is a fantastic event in which 8th graders from RIS and EIS
have the opportunity to spend a day with the WHS Marching Blue Devils,
including a halftime performance at
the home football game. It was a beautiful day, and students at both
middle schools and the high school had a great experience.
Jazz auditions have concluded and
there will be two jazz ensembles
this year! The Jazz Big Band and Jazz Combo will each meet once a
week before school, and they have just begun preparing for the winter
concert season. Jazz Big Band will tour the elementary schools on
December 20 in addition to
performing on our Winter Jazz Concert, along with the Jazz Combo
and The Afternoon Ramble.
The Afternoon Ramble has also
begun rehearsing! This ensemble is open to all students in grades 6-8
interested in playing rock and roll, funk, and folk music. All
instrumentalists and vocalists are
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welcome! Our first “gig” will be on
November 6 in the cafeteria for Mix It Up Day!
The Chamber Music program will
begin again in January, and
students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade band will spend two months
preparing small ensemble music for our Chamber Music Night on March
26 at 7pm.
Mrs. Colabaugh, Mr. Freeman, and
Mr. Doyle are looking forward to another fantastic year at Roosevelt!
They would like to thank the entire Westfield community for their
continued support. Without you,
none of these great musical opportunities would exist. We hope
to see you at one of these upcoming events!
Nov. 11- Veteran’s Day Assembly (8th Grade Band), RIS, 8:30am
Dec. 3- Winter Concert, RIS, 7pm Dec. 4- Winter Jazz and Afternoon
Ramble Concert, RIS, 7pm
Dec. 20- Holiday Tour of Elementary Schools (Jazz Big Band)
Drama
RIS Fall Drama
Performance dates: Nov. 14 at 4:00pm
Nov. 15 & 16 at 7:00pm
This fall Roosevelt Intermediate
School presents The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, adapted to the stage by
Christopher Sergel.
This stage adaptation deals with
real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the
wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-
it-made rich kids, the Socs and his
tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends.
Purchase Tickets Online at: RIS.Booktix.com or at the Door
Edison
Intermediate
Art
The school year has started out with much enthusiasm and excitement
within our EIS art department. The
6th graders are building a solid foundation of art centered on the
Elements & Principles of design. They have begun their year working
on projects that creatively introduce line, space, shape and color and will
continue to creatively express all the
Elements and Principles as they go.
The 7th grade students are focused
on balancing a composition incorporating what they have
learned about contour drawing,
space, shape, color and pattern.
In the 8th grade Arts & Crafts class
the students are moving right along with projects such as; God’s Eyes,
Dream Catchers and Kente Strip
Weaves. They have been enjoying learning about the history and
culture behind their crafts.
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Sixth grade is focusing on the elements of art and they are
working to create from one continuous line a crazy abstract
scene that incorporates all their
elements into one element of space. They are practicing pencil shading,
value blending with ebony pencil and blending stumps. Students are
exploring color in warm and cool
shades by blending colored pencil and marker. They are going to work
on a color mixing project next that will feature line drawings of nine of
their most favorite things.
The 7th graders are working on a
large mixed media drawing using all the elements of art. They started
with a continuous line and then folded the paper into eight squares.
Students were asked to start with
one box of line and work in black and white. The next day we
discussed shape watching a short video with art from different
movements of art. The two-minute
video gave us a chance to have a discussion of what a movement of
art meant and how a still life for example could look vastly different
by two artists. The students are working in shading and value and
the next assignment will be a still
life drawing in pencil shading. We will also work in value and gradient
with painting in acrylics.
Eight grade Crafts classes began
working with fibers. We began by discussing the image of the circle
and the eye as symbols in art. We talked about Italian, Native
American and Eastern cultures. We began with a God’s Eye in yarn that
taught us a simple weaving
technique. We learned the simple weave of a dream catcher and those
skills led us to our first basket-making project in yarn.
Music
EIS Bands The bands at EIS are in full swing.
With over 220 students enrolled in band, it is a very exciting time to be
a band member at Edison. Each of
the band classes has been working hard on making great sounds on
their respective instruments. Many of our 8th grade students took part
in the annual 8th Grade Day with the WHS Marching Blue Devils where 8th
grade students from EIS and RIS
get to become members of the marching band for a day. It was a
great day and experience for these students. Next up on their
performance schedule for the 8th
grade is the annual Veteran’s Day Ceremony in November. Eager to
show how much they have learned,
they will get to showcase their skills
for the entire student body.
There are a few new faces to the EIS Band. Mrs. Colabaugh and Mrs.
Webber will join Mr. Scozzaro and
Mrs. Gant in teaching some of the band classes. We are very pleased
to be able to bring in exceptional teachers for the students. They will
help the bands get ready for their
Winter Concert. The 6th and 7th Grade Band will be performing on
December 9 while the 8th Grade Band and Jazz Band will perform on
December 16.
Some of the advanced students in the EIS band have begun their
preparation for auditions for the
Intermediate Region Concert Band in January. Featuring the top
musicians from Central Jersey, the Intermediate Region Concert Band
has a rigorous audition featuring
scales, an advanced solo, and sight-reading. EIS has been very
fortunate to have several students make this group the last few years
so we are hopeful to keep the tradition going.
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EIS Orchestra
The Edison Intermediate School Orchestras were ecstatic to receive
beautiful new folders for the start of the school year. A huge “Thank
You” to the Westfield Coalition for
the Arts for making this possible. The previous folders hadn’t been
replaced for several years and now future generations of Orchestra
students will have beautifully
embossed portfolios that they can proudly present on stage for
performances. This December the folders will house pieces such as
“Carol of the Bells/Greensleeves,” a mash-up of two iconic holiday
favorites, “A River Flows In You” by
Korean pianist and composer, Yiruma, and “Trepak” from
Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, The Nutcracker. We hope to see you at
one of our Winter performances!
Drama
EIS Fall Drama
Performance dates:
Oct.30 at 4:00pm Nov. 1 & 2 at 7:00pm
On a dark and stormy night, six
unique guests, plus a butler, a maid, many servants and uninvited
crashers assemble for a dinner party
at the home of Ms. Boddy. When their host turns up deceased, it is
clear that no one is safe! Soon the guests are racing to get a clue as to
who did it, with what, and in what
room before the others can guess. Based on the popular board game
and adapted from the cult classic film, Clue is the comedy whodunit
that will keep you guessing (and
laughing) to the very end.
Assembling for our fall drama are many talented students both on
stage and behind the scenes. They include Cara Cogen, Nolan Daly,
Sigal Goldstein, Alexandra Haar,
Caroline Kobin, Rachel Klemm, Jacob Spiewak, Madeline Von Boch,
Ethan Young and many more.
Clue will be presented on the evenings of Friday, November 1 and
Saturday, November 2 in the EIS Auditorium at 7pm. Tickets are
$8.00 pre-sale and $10.00 at the
door. Ticket sales begin on October 28 after school in the EIS vestibule.
There will also be a special preview
performance on Wed., October 30 at 4pm. General admission tickets
for that performance will be sold at
the door for only $5.00. We look forward to seeing you!
Franklin
Elementary
Art
Now that the year is under way, the
Art Room has been full of students working hard to design artwork
using their creativity.
The 1st graders learned about
symmetry with leaves. After creating a symmetrical leaf with
black oil pastel, students used warm and cool color watercolor paint for
their background and foreground. This lesson also incorporated the
concept of watercolor resist with the
oil pastels. The classes have now begun to learn about sculpture as
an art form. This introduction lead to the students creating cornucopias
out of model magic. They learned to
roll coils of clay to create the horn, as well as roll spheres and pinch the
clay to create the various types of
fruits and vegetables to fill their
cornucopia. We will now begin to add color to their cornucopia with
paint.
Second grade classes completed
two texture collage artworks. For this project, students used a variety
of everyday materials, such as corrugated cardboard, rubber dish
mats, paper clips, plastic coins and
art sticks to create an artwork on their choice of color paper. Students
chose to keep one as is, and the other one will be used in a paper-
weaving project, which will start in the near future.
The 3rd graders have completed their Impossible Stack collage. This
project had the students look at balance relating to 3-D forms they
drew. Students arranged their
paper forms in an “impossible” way on their paper, with them balancing
in a way that would be difficult in real life. Shadows and highlights
were then added to help make their
work look more realistic. This wrapped up their observational
drawing unit. Students have now begun their birch tree project. They
used the unconventional material of a gift card to paint their birch trees.
Backgrounds of their choice are
starting to be created. Students have the option of the medium to
use, as well as the realistic design they would like to use for their
landscape.
Fourth grade is starting their
Impressionist landscape project.
After learning about the
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Impressionist movement, students
looked at examples of the artwork in that style and the artists who
created them: Van Gogh, Monet, Seurrat. Students used photograph
examples of landscapes as a
reference to help them draw a landscape of their choice. Next,
students will learn several oil pastel techniques, with their sketch in
mind. This will help them determine
which technique will work best for certain parts of their drawing.
Blending, scumbling, and stippling will be explored.
Notan artwork is the focus of the 5th
grade classes. They are working on creating a design, which focuses on
the concept of positive and negative
space, as well as contrast. Students chose to use either a rectangle or
square piece of black paper to create their design on. Once the
design is drawn, students will cut out their design, being sure to keep
all pieces. A background paper of
their choice will showcase their black paper design, which will have
certain parts flipping out from the original black paper. Excellent
craftsmanship when cutting and
gluing helps to make this artwork more advanced and eye appealing.
Music
We’ve jumped right back into music
at Franklin with singing, dancing, and playing instruments. First
graders have been learning several action songs to engage their minds
and bodies. Not only are these
songs fun, but they help them learn
the rules of the classroom, explore
the pitch set of sol, mi, and la, and develop an awareness of space.
They’ve also worked on playing unpitched percussion and simple
borduns on the xylophones as they
sing and play “Burnie Bee”. Soon they’ll decode the piece and
compose with sol, mi, and la.
In 2nd grade, the students are
exploring the pitch set of Do, Mi, Sol, and La through their songs.
Soon they’ll discover their new note Do! They have also explored
melodic contour by matching their movements to simple melodies
played on the Orff instruments.
They’re also working on a new Polish welcome song, which will
eventually allow them to improvise rhythms and lead the class using
echo imitation.
The 3rd graders used the poem
“Pease Porridge Hot” to create an unpitched percussion piece during
one week, and then used it again to
explore the five untransposed pentatonic scales on the Orff
instruments the next week. We also discussed the importance of silence
in music and during movement activities so that our movements are
purposeful and thoughtful. To help
reinforce this concept, we read the book “The Night at the Museum”
and played the game night guard. The students then revisited their
mirroring and shadowing concepts
as they responded to music and led the class using these concepts.
The 4th grade classes were
enthusiastic as they literally jumped in with our introduction chant “Jump
In, Jump Out”. They got to introduce themselves, tell us what
they like and what they can do. We
also discussed non-locomotor movements and explored those
movements while dancing on newspapers and during the song
“Hands Like This”. To work on
audiating music, the 4th graders learned the song “To Stop the
Train” and slowly took out the words but showed the movements
of the song until they were audiating the entire piece. They
then took this to the next level by
singing it in a four-part canon.
We also discussed the major and
minor scales and began exploring the Dorian mode through a piece
found in the Music for Children volumes by Carl Orff and Gunild
Keetman. The students were given a skeleton outline of the melody and
slowly learned the piece on
xylophones. This is one of the hardest songs they’ve attempted on
these instruments, because they are no longer using the pentatonic
scales and are using all of the bars
on the instrument.
In 5th grade, we reviewed singing our solfege scale using a beach ball
as my last attempt to hold on to summer. We’ve also been discussing
proper vocal technique and
evaluating different choirs in preparation for their first experience
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as choral members. They are quite
enthusiastic and are fast learners when it comes to their choral music;
I’m looking forward to seeing what this group is capable of. They are
also learning the handclapping
game “Slide” which combines patterns of one, two, and three.
This will help prepare them as they explore mixed and uneven meters.
In October, they’ll begin learning a
piece on xylophones using these meters and an autumn poem. Of
course we’ll have to have a little fun jumping through various shapes
that will inspire our own compositions in mixed meters. After
reviewing the C major scale, the
students were then given a xylophone and two accidental bars
(F# and Bb) and in small groups, they had to figure out how to create
a G and F scale. It was great seeing
how quickly they could discern which pitches sounded different.
However, they’ll quickly learn how these modes also play a role in
music.
Jefferson
Elementary
Art
Welcome back and thanks for supporting the Jefferson Arts by
reading!
First graders are starting out the
year with TWO new lessons! One is a throwback to the dinosaur age,
when Mrs. Ciotti was in elementary art, Plaster Handprints. These will
be primed, and then painted with
primary colors. The other lesson is a funky self-portrait while learning
about lines, and basic color mixing.
Painting is also showing up in our
2nd grade art classes with their tree silhouettes. The students are
learning about tints, silhouettes and how to make trees. We discuss
how trees change with different seasons, even in silhouette. The
end results are full of personality.
Third grades are learning about Paul
Klee. We discuss art from our dreams, and we concentrate on "Cat
and Bird" by Paul Klee, though the
kids can pick whatever animal they want.
Origami is the subject for our first
4th grade project, though their
creations don't end up as traditional origami, we use them to learn about
dynamic composition.
Music
Jefferson’s musicians are off to a great start this fall! Students met
their new music teacher, Mrs. Meyer. The classrooms are alive
with lots of singing, dancing, body percussion, name games,
instruments, and more. All grade
levels are focusing on pitch and melody this month, and will learn
more about dynamics as we move into October and November.
First graders started the year
reviewing steady beat and singing a
variety of sol-mi songs. They are practicing identifying when a melody
moves up, down, or stays the same and exploring levels with games
like, “Not My Level” and “Elevator.”
They have started working on music
for the Fall Sing-a-long with “Turkey Dinner Dance.”
The 2nd graders shared what they
did over the summer with Mrs. Meyer in song form; we learned
who went to camp, who went on a
trip, and even who had ice cream! We are learning a set dance about a
sneaky squirrel who gathers nuts and seeds to store for winter.
Students are taking turns being the leader in several echo songs. As fall
moves along, we will be drawing our
own treble clefs and diving in to steps, skips, leaps, and repeats.
The 3rd graders jumped right in to
learning a two-part chant about Fuzzy Wuzzy the bear. Students
played drums and xylophones set to
speech and practiced rotating instruments over eight beats.
Student leaders are enjoying the game Poison Pattern (your student
may also call it the Sol-La-Mi game) where they try to stump the class
with a particular solfege pattern.
They are also working on the song “Green Bean Casserole” and can’t
wait to share it with you at the Sing-a-long in November.
Fourth graders start every class with
some body percussion warm ups.
We are exploring different rhythm patterns and form; that is, how the
music is organized. The song Gilly Gilly Gilly Good Morning has been a
big hit, and if you listen carefully, you can usually hear some
musicians singing it in the hallways
or after school. Later this month we will be learning about the Orff
instruments- we can’t wait!
Fifth graders introduced themselves
with Up the Ladder Down the Ladder. We are discussing the
difference between major and minor tonalities and have used the theme
from The Pink Panther as an example. Next, we will be learning
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about scales. Our students who play
an instrument are excited to share what they know!
The 5th grade chorus is off to a
great start! They have begun
working on selections for the holiday concert. We are so proud of
all our student musicians and it is a pleasure to be part of the Jefferson
family!
McKinley
Elementary
Art
This year in art students were welcomed by their new art teacher,
Ms. Sarnowski. She is thrilled to be at McKinley Elementary School and
is looking forward to an exciting
year helping her students grow as artists! As a fun back to school
activity, students in all grade levels used contour lines, only focusing on
line and without coloring, to draw some of their favorite things to
share about themselves. Their
artwork was hung all throughout the school to brighten the hallways and
build a sense of pride in their creations.
First graders viewed video
performances to learn about West
African djembe drums, djembe meaning “everyone together.”
Students had fun as they practiced staying on beat with the songs,
combining visual art and music. Finally, students practiced their
drawing skills by creating their own
2-D djembe drum using pattern to show the Elements of Design; lines,
shapes, and colors.
In 2nd grade, students are learning about the type of artwork called a
“seascape” scape meaning “a picture of” and viewed the artwork
of Winslow Homer, a famous artist
from Massachusetts. They viewed pictures of different paintings
created by Homer, and discussed the content they saw. Students are
creating their own seascape,
brainstorming what they would like to add to personalize their artwork,
practicing drawing skills, and experimenting with color mixing
through the use of watercolor
paint.
Third grade classes viewed images of still life artwork by Paul Cezanne.
They learned some personal history about Cezanne in order to make
connections and discussed his style,
color usage, and objects of choice. After practicing blending technique
with oil pastels, they will draw their own still life, focusing mainly on
fruits, paying special attention to
highlight and shadow to create 3-D looking forms.
By viewing artworks by Monet and
Van Gogh, 4th grade students were introduced to the style of artwork
Impressionism. Focusing on landscape, students discussed the
route meaning of impression, color,
capturing light, and the short, visible brush strokes Impressionism
is characterized by. By choosing their own landscape image as
inspiration, students will then
creatively interpret and re-produced the image with oil pastels to
experiment with texture and color application.
Studying different architecture
opens a window to travel the world! The 5th graders learned about
architecture and architects,
selecting an image of a famous building to draw as the basis of their
painting. Students will use the grid method of drawing to enlarge and
transfer their image onto their final
artwork paper. They will review color theory and complete a color
exercise to experiment with their
favorite color pallet. They will use
their painting skills and techniques to create a painting of the famous
landmark in their desired color palette, combining a realistic
drawing with a bright and abstract
color scheme.
Music
The 1st and 2nd graders have been
getting back into a musical routine.
Students have already been reading rhythms and melodic patterns! Both
grades have used bells and boomwhackers to play different
melodic patterns. This month they
have been working on showing melodies getting higher and lower,
composing their own pentatonic songs and learning fun songs to
help reinforce concepts like Ozzy the Octopus in 2nd grade.
Fourth graders have been working with chrome music lab to explore
intervals. Students have created their own compositions using
unisons, thirds and
octaves. Students will continue composing this year and learning
more about how songs are made up.
The 5th graders have been learning about the Star Spangled Banner this
month. Along with our national anthem, they have been identifying
the intervals in the song, and adding in solfege to it. In chorus,
we are already working on our
holiday music, which will be featured, at our concert at 7pm on
December 11.
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Tamaques
Elementary
Art
Welcome back! We are all eagerly awaiting another wonderful year of
art making! This year all grade
levels will create a project that focuses on Social and Emotional
Learning (SEL).
Students will experience the process of art making as a means of
reducing worry and anxiety in their daily lives. They will be introduced
to Guatemalan “Worry Dolls” and
create appropriate grade level versions inspired by the Mayan
children’s dolls. The legend holds that the children can tell the worry
dolls their troubles, and then lay
them under their pillow at night so that they can rest peacefully. It
reinforces the notion that children should share their problems with
others to lessen their burdens. In addition to worry dolls, we will be
learning about the Elements and
Principals of Design through the exploration of creative process and
play through a wide assortment of materials. It’s going to be an
“artrageous” year!
4th gr. fiber worry dolls
5th gr. mixed media worry dolls
Music Welcome back everyone! The
Tamaques musicians are off to a
very strong start this school year. One of the district’s goals is to
promote Social-Emotional Learning and this was incorporated into some
of the first lessons for the year. First
grade students identified and voiced their “first day” emotions before
reading “The Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon.” In the story, the
main character is also starting their first music class and experiences
various emotions as well. Students
in fifth grade filled out a Musical Driver’s License where they self-
reflected on aspects of their identity and set musical and personal goals
for the year. In other grade levels,
we used ACT IT OUT cards to discuss real life music class conflicts
that may occur throughout the year and used role-play to brainstorm
different ways to make each situation better.
Our content area focus for September has been melody, and
the way that music moves. Some activities we have been working
with to learn about melody include:
-Singing new songs like "This is the
House that Jack Built" with a book to go along with it and "What is In
My Lunchbox?" (1st), "Miles and
Miles" about outer space (2nd), and
a song about a singing robot called
"Robot Round" (3rd/4th)
-Reading music for Boomwhackers (color-coded plastic tubes that are
tuned to different notes by length)
on the two-line and five-line staff
-Hearing melodies played on piano or sung and notating what we hear
with bingo chips on laminated staff
sheets (2nd/3rd/4th)
-Playing from low to high, high to low, steps, skips, and repeating
patterns on a Play Doh Piano using Makey-Makey Software (2nd)
-Starting our group Commercial Projects by developing fictional
products and writing our ads/composing jingles to “sell” them
(5th)
I am very excited for the rest of this
year and I can't wait to see what your musicians create next!
Tamaques & Washington 4th & 5th Grade Band
Tamaques School
Walk to School Day Performance The Tamaques and Washington 4th
grade band students are super
excited about learning their new instruments! Band lessons began
the week of September 9, and we are now fully in the swing of things.
The intent is to instill in students practice goals for themselves and to
work at a challenging yet
appropriate pace. Some students
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have really taken off with their
instruments and are rapidly improving! The Washington and
Tamaques 5th Grade band students have mostly all re-enrolled and are
ready to take on the year! The
students are working especially on breathing, fingerings, tonguing,
reading notes, and concert repertoire.
Washington School
First Day Performance
After a summer of limited playing,
the Washington 5th graders actually performed for the first day of school
in the courtyard! Parents and friends gathered around to enjoy
this first day of school musical experience! Some of the Tamaques
5th graders willingly performed for
Walk to School Day on September 25 in front of the school. Both
groups played fun tunes from our method book and had the crowd
going wild!
Don’t forget to mark your calendars. The Tamaques 5th Grade Band and
Chorus Holiday Concert is
Wednesday, December 11 at 7pm in the Tamaques School auditorium.
The Washington 5th Grade Band and Chorus Concert is Wednesday,
December 18 at 7pm in the
Washington School auditorium. See you there!
Washington
Elementary
Art
Art at Washington School is off to a great start! Everyone is thrilled to
have an art room this year. This
creative space will allow students to use a wider range of materials and
make more masterpieces than ever before.
First grade students are beginning
their year by reviewing the
foundational elements and principles
of design. Starting with line, they are exploring the many ways they
can curve, bend, and change their marks on the paper to form various
shapes. This trimester they will be
drawing, painting, and even building with lines.
In the 2nd grade, artists are
investigating landscapes. The unit
began by listening to Robert Frost’s famous poem, Birches. Students
used this text as inspiration for a painting of trees. They are now
experimenting with paper and
watercolor to collage a vibrant forest. Soon they will make a paper
sculpture of a concrete jungle, New York City.
Third grade students are becoming
skilled typographers by using their powers of observation to study
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fonts. Deciphering the difference
between Roman and Gothic text while also locating serifs on letters,
has made for some fun scavenger hunts. They have applied their new
expertise to a radial design of their
own name, as well as a three-dimensional initial built out of
cardboard.
Artists in the 4th grade are learning
about proportion in human figures and faces. After working with
wooden mannequins, they now
know that the average person is 7.5 heads tall. This knowledge is being
applied to both small and large-scale pieces of dancing people, as
often seen in the work of Keith
Haring.
Fifth grade artists are working on a
number of colorful creations. They have teamed up to connect a
collection of shaded crayons. These
oil pastel pieces truly appear to pop
off the page. Students will complete
this exploration by building sculptures of crayons from recycled
materials. This will ultimately lead to a deeper understanding of color
theory in future studies.
Washington School is sure to start bursting with beautiful art very
soon!
Music
Extra, extra, sing all about it! Washington School is so excited to
announce that we have a music room! This means that we will get
to use more instruments, move
more artfully in a wide-open space, and use more visual tools to help us
with our music learning this year.
First graders are starting to explore
the music room and begin to learn
the procedures and new songs for music class. They are becoming
experts on using their singing voice instead of their talking voice, and
they are learning simple songs like
“Frog in the Meadow” and “No More Pie.” Over the next few months they
will keep building their repertoire of these simple songs, learning games
to go with them; these songs will be the building blocks for other future
musical activities in the year to
come.
The 2nd graders are already getting in the spooky spirit to prepare for
the Fall Sing-Along. They will use
dynamic contrast and minor tonality to sing songs like “Stirring the Brew”
and “Skin and Bones.” As we move
into October, students will add to their known vocabulary about
dynamics like piano and forte, and apply those in the songs they
practice for the Sing-Along.
Third grade students are learning
new songs and games for “Charlie Over the Ocean” and “Let Us Chase
the Squirrel,” a great way to start
the year. They will continue to learn more about formal notation and
how notes relate to each other as we go through the fall. The 3rd
graders’ study of dynamics will expand to include crescendos,
diminuendos, and accents, all
details that make a big difference in musical performance.
Fourth graders are learning more
about their singing voices and the
vocal warm-up process with songs like “To Stop the Train” that teach
them how to use their best voice and sing as one group. They will use
instruments like Boomwhackers and
metallophones to experience the idea of scales and intervals as many
of them begin their instruction on a band or orchestra instrument.
The 5th graders have already had a
very busy year! At the end of the
second full week of school we went to Camp Fairview Lake, where
adventuring and singing were both on the agenda. They did a fabulous
job singing some of their favorite
songs around a campfire while roasting marshmallows. They have
also begun their chorus rehearsals, and are already looking ahead to
the winter concert, where they will have their debut performance as the
Washington School Chorus. The
year is certainly off to a musical start!
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Wilson
Elementary Art
Mrs. Lehmberg returned to Wilson
School as the new art teacher after substitute teaching in the art room
for several months in the spring.
She was delighted to become reacquainted with the 2nd - 5th grade
students and to meet the 1st graders and other students who are new to
Wilson School. Many students
were pleasantly surprised that the art room had been reconfigured
during the summer months and now has a carpeted area and an extra
worktable providing more space for creating works of art.
During their first meeting of the year, each art class gathered on the
carpet to listen to Peter Reynolds book, Ish, which reaffirms that we
are all artists, each with our own
unique way of seeing the world and creating art. They learned that
artists use sketchbooks to practice skills, capture ideas, and for
sketching and drawing. Each artist designed their own sketchbook
cover that incorporated their name
and something about themselves. They used construction paper
crayons, which provided vibrant, saturated colors to bring their ideas
to life. Artists will use their
sketchbooks throughout the school year to practice techniques and try
out new ideas.
All classes completed grade level art
pre-assessments. The pre-assessments provide a baseline of
understanding and assist with lesson planning. Throughout the
school year, artists will engage in art lessons based on the elements
of art and principles of design.
Artists were introduced to the
element of line, which was used to
create a variety of patterned projects. Next up will be shape and
color theory, along with a school wide collaborative art project, which
will be displayed in the art room.
Lincoln
School
The start of the school year has
been a busy one here at Lincoln School. Our students were read a
story called “The Dot” by Peter
Reynolds in which a little girl needs to “Make a mark, and see where is
takes her.” The students at Lincoln school are ready to “Make Their
Mark in Art” too as we work on
becoming social and emotional learners during the process of
making art!
In kindergarten, we got busy right from day one – drawing, coloring,
cutting and gluing! Our first unit of the year will be “Lines, Lines,
Lines!” involving 3-D sculpture
building and some painting using the color wheel. Then we'll bring a
little autumn fun to the classroom with pumpkins, monsters and
turkeys.
Our little friends in Pre-K will be busy with our first unit - learning all
about shapes. We created mosaic pattern letters using the
letter that starts our names. We
imagined what we could make using the book, “Ten Black Dots,” by
Donald Crews. Mondrian will be the focus artist in Oct. as we will
follow his “maps” and design our
own shape maps. Nov. will bring a focus on texture using fall and
Thanksgiving as a theme.
Lincoln School has been full of
music this September and October! Kindergartners have learned about
solfege, high and low sounds and have even played the step bells and
xylophones! This fall students will be learning how to read music and
will even be making their own
compositions! It's going to be a great year!
Parent Volunteers Needed
For Yourth Art Month
March 2020
Please consider volunteering a little of
your time to help display artwork for your school
For more information and
details about this wonderful program, please email
Magaly Mota at: mmota@westfieldnjk12.org
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FALL 2019 Dear Westfield Arts Lovers! The mission of the Westfield Coalition for the Arts is to act as an advocate for the arts in our schools, including music, fine art, theatre, visual art and dance. We speak out on behalf of the arts and their importance in our schools by raising public awareness of the arts’ programs currently in our schools, supporting the schools when there is no room left in the budget, and encouraging our students’ artistic endeavors. We cannot do this without your support!
The Coalition was able to award grants to fine art, music, and drama teachers for different art projects due to your generous donations of over $20,000! Just look at what some of your donations paid for this past school year:
★ Lighting equipment and a new scrim for the WHS stage
★ Xylophones for an innovative music project at Franklin School
★ New music folios for the choirs at Edison Intermediate School and WHS
★ Funding for choral attire for the new WHS Blue Devil Treble acapella group
★ Travel expenses for the WHS Wind Ensemble to participate in the Music for All National Concert Band Festival
★ Funding for a new and permanent fine art installation at Washington School
★ Document Camera purchase for Roosevelt Intermediate School Fine Art program
★ Art Classroom amplification system for Edison Intermediate School
★ Continuing education classes for art teachers AND MUCH MORE!
The Westfield Coalition is an independent, nonprofit, organization, and we depend solely upon the generosity of supporters and parents like you! We hope that you will once again demonstrate your commitment to the arts by donating today.
Like our Facebook page and visit our website: www.WestfieldCoalitionForTheArts.weebly.com. Please say you will stand with us as art advocates! DONATE TODAY! ~ Margaret Smith, President ~ Eric Lipkind, Treasurer, Michelle McGurn and Danielle Michaeli TO DONATE, simply mail your checks, made payable to WESTFIELD COALITION FOR THE ARTS to:
WCA Treasurer, 622 Arlington Avenue, Westfield, NJ 07090 Please cut and include the portion below with your payment. NAME: (as you would like it listed in the program) ___________________________________________________
EMAIL: _____________________________________________PHONE:___________________________________
NAME OF WESTFIELD SCHOOL THAT YOUR YOUNGEST CHILD ATTENDS: _____________________________
YES, I/we are interested in volunteering for the WCA _________________________________________________
. (first & last name, and email address, if not listed above)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Yes, I/we would like to donate! Please check one:
Benefactor $500.00_____ Angel $200.00_____ Patron $100.00_____
Sponsor $75.00_____ Supporter $50.00_____ Donation $_____
In appreciation of your gift of $75.00 or more, your name will be printed in the concert programs. Please provide:
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Westfield Choir Presents The 2nd Annual
GUYS’ NIGHT OF SINGING
Who: Any male in Grades 7-12, Westfield dads, teachers, and guys of all ages who like to sing!
When: Friday, October 25, 2019 Time: 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: Westfield High School Theater
**Food and refreshments will be provided**
All are invited for a performance by special guests:
The GrooveBarbers (Performance starts at 8 PM)
Interested in participating or have questions? RSVP BY OCTOBER 22
Reach out to Mr. John Brzozowski, WHS Choral Director 908-789-4500 X 4549, Email: jbrzozowski@westfieldnjk12.org