Mimi Herman at Forestville Road: 4/3/2017

Mimi Herman will be at Forestville Road on Monday, April 3rd, 2017 to conduct a poetry workshop for our 4th grade students.  The purposes of her workshops are to develop students’ abilities to use the techniques of poetry and to improve writing across the curriculum. She will be working to develop their understanding of imagery, line breaks, and stanza breaks.  They will also learn to use the “writer’s movie camera,” which records images using all five senses. Lastly, she will help students learn to translate personal experience and imagination into the writing of poetry. We are looking forward to having Mimi here at Forestville!

Number Drummer Workshop

Today I attended a Number Drummer workshop at the United Arts Council's office located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.  Troy Kryzalka provided teachers with many tools to help them use music to teach mathematical concepts related to counting, multiplication, division, addition, money, patterns, skip counting, fractions, probability, ratios, and algebra.  I am looking forward to sharing these strategies with the students of Forestville in the future.

Percussion Ensemble

Students in our 4th and 5th grade percussion ensemble have been working hard to prepare for our upcoming spring concert on Thursday, May 4th, 2017 at 7 p.m.  Members of this ensemble have been practicing bucket accompaniments to arrangements of various popular songs.  Below you can see pictures of students practicing at one of our weekly rehearsals.