PS 150 Enrichment

During this 13-week winter residency with two new dance teachers from Arts Connection students will learn the basic fundamentals of dance technique and explore a variety of creative movement styles. The kids also have the opportunity to get up and moving during the cold winter months. The dance teachers will return in the late spring to help prepare students for the PS 150 Arts, Science and Technology Festival.

American Ballroom Theater (Spring) Grade 5

Our traditional ballroom dance residency, fifth graders learn the rhumba, swing, foxtrot, cha-cha, and tango.

Music & Theater Performances

Tribeca Performing Arts Center Performances (ongoing)

Live performances attended by classes throughout the year

BAM Philharmonic Grades 2 and 3 (April 29)

Students will go to a Brooklyn Philharmonic performance at BAM. The focus of this concert is the form of music.

New Victory Theater Grades K & 3

The third grade saw “Rapunzel” and the kindergarten saw “Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff” in March. These grades also took advantage of the free pre and post show workshops with New Vic teaching artists.

Programs Enriching Language Arts

Bill Gordh (January – February)

Grades Pre-K through 3

Eight-week, in-class story-telling workshop

Heritage Storytelling Project (March-April)

A family-centered funded by a grant from the Center for Arts Education, the Heritage Storytelling Project involved PS 150 students and their families in storytelling and community building.

Authors Visits

Laurence Pringle visited the school on Wednesday, March 19. We hope Jeanne Betancourt, author of the popular Pony Pal series, will visit in April or May. These authors share insights to the creative process, the path to publication, research and fact checking that are a part of nonfiction writing, a typical day in the life of a writer, and their own paths to becoming writers.

Programs Enriching Content Studies

Arts Integration with Andrea Pedersen Grades K-5 (September – June)

Art teacher Andrea will be working with us as our “Studio in a School” expert on Mondays to help teachers integrate a wide range of visual arts into the social studies and science curriculum.

Met Opera Guild Grades 4 & 5 (Winter)

Upper Grade students wrote songs related to their studies: Explorers (4), American Revolution (5)

Puppetry Residency Grades K, 1 & 2 (Spring)

For the first time the students of PS 150 will work with a puppetry artist from Arts Connection to enhance their studies of Fish (K), Bees (1) and Birds (2).

Young Playwrights Residency Grades 2, 3, 4 (Spring)

For the first time the students of P.S. 150 will work with a teaching artist from Young Playwrights. Students will study the craft of playwriting and use what they learn to write plays related to their spring content studies of Birds (2), Eastern Woodland Indians (3), nd the myths of Ancient Greece (4).

Center for Architecture Foundation: Learning By Design Residency Grades 2 & 5 (Fall), Grades 3 & 4 (Spring)

This in-class physical science program integrates the study of architecture into classroom studies.

Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Grade 3 (Spring)

Workshop exploring traditional American Woodland Indian dance, costumes and musical instruments.

Science Enrichment

Grades K through 5 participate in day-long science experiences, which are presented by educators from the various museums, zoos and nature centers that are visited, to support the science units.

K/1st Grade:

Spring – American Museum of Natural History – Butterflies

2nd Grade:

Fall – Central Park Conservancy – “Dirt on Dirt” program
Spring – New York Botanical Garden – “Plants We Eat” program

3rd Grade:

Spring – NY Hall of Science – “Push, Pull, Yank and Crank” program

4th Grade:

Fall – Lake Sebago – Exploring a Forest
Winter – American Museum of Natural History – Deciduous Forests
Spring – NY Hall of Science – “Push, Pull, Yank and Crank”

5th Grade:

Spring – Inwood Park – Estuary Study
Spring – American Museum of Natural History – Rocks & Minerals

Spring Arts Science & Technology Festival

This school-wide event will take place on the afternoon & evening of May 22nd. Artworks are displayed in the lobby; science studies and experiments are displayed and conducted on the lower level, ground floor and plaza; and at 6:00 everyone crosses the plaza to the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to attend a performance, which elaborates on the work the students have done all year in music, dance and theater. Please see the “Events” section of the website if you are interested in helping out with the festival.

Other

In Classroom OT Consultation with Casey Halper Grades K – 5

Occupational therapist Casey Halper joins us for a second year in working with the students and teachers to provide strategies and techniques to help the children become more focused and organized for improved participation in the classroom. Casey interacts with the teachers to implement sensory ideas and handwriting activities and techniques into the daily life of the classroom.

Supplies & Maintenance/Repair : for art, music, science, technology

Updated 4/4/08