That sounds like a wonderful event and you sound like a wonderful
teacher!
Enjoy your spring break!
Gayle
On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:46 PM, jeryl HOLLINGSWORTH wrote:
> We just completed our annual Arts Exploration Day on Thursday and
> the highlights were the performances by Greg Percy (we are in SC
> and he flew in from Wi) and a middle school hip hop dance troupe
> from a town in our state about 4 hours away. Greg does Songs in the
> Key of Art which I have been using in my classroom for years. All
> the teachers at my school were so impressed at the connection
> between art and music and wanted to know how I found out about him-
> thought back and of course it was the teacherartexchange! We had
> lots of artists and performers that my middle-low class students
> would probably not get to see. We were able to get the dancers by
> paying for their transportation and driver ($$$$) And how did I
> pay for it? Money won through Artsonia- which I found out about on
> teacherartexchange. Are you noticing a pattern? Only 4 school days
> until 10 of spring break, a hugely successful Arts Day on the
> books, and I"m feeling great! I just wanted to say
> thanks to all my friends on the exchange for hooking me up with
> great ideas, Artsonia, Bing.com and Greg Percy! My students were
> still talking about hearing Greg today - it was like a rock star
> had visited.
> Jeryl In sunny SC where the pollen is starting to fall!!
>
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