| Show I m BARBARA LACY'S enthusiasm and involvement I throughout her two-week residency in Vernal helped generate excitement in all the classes she was associated I BOB WILSON AND BARBARA LACY through their to inspire Maeser and Central schoolchildren in their education through movement TRACEY Christy Rich and Yvette Massey form mountain peaks that were an integral part of the water BARBARA moves Maeser schoolchildren through movement r By Barbara Lacy Editors Lacy recently concluded a two-week residency in the Uintah School District as part of the Artist-in School funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Utah Arts After her residency she offered the following report of her observations to the The culmination of the AIS Dance Residency in Vernal this past week revealed encouraging Although a smaller number of staff at Maeser school was involved in teacher- works ho teachers achieve some depth with their classes' creative movement Observing teachers at Maeser commented on the growth of confidence and group cooperation of individual students during the four days of Rotating student classes that observed expressed much interest and the desire to be involved in through The Maeser faculty created a welcoming atmosphere for myself and my Bob A wide range of curriculum concepts through movement was presented at the Maeser student demonstration as was done the Central School demonstration held three weeks Following the specific request areas of language math and science concepts were Sprague's third grade class danced out subtraction and multiplication Sets of 3 and 4 within the number 12 presented division concepts using body shapes and on elastic line Kidman's fourth grade class concentrated on language arts in expression with writing letters to pen pals and in the study of Wingett's fifth graders presented a study in energy and communication among as well as a science unit on the water 1120 molecule and the effect of cold fronts and warm Montgomery's sixth grade class ended the program with geometry concepts with the study of line relationships of parallel and They also studied sentence presenting complete sentences emphasizing pre positional phrases and subject object Kidman and Massey used movement to highlight the study of the seven Will this work continue as a teaching method in EVEN TED District AIS jumped into the body movement experience these In the final teacher workshop I was most encouraged as individual teachers presented to their peers concepts they had devised on their own or tried in their I was delighted to hear Caldwell from Central give an account of One student had been tested for hearing as he was unable to discern vowel By using creative movement success came for the first The additional visual-motor approach clarified the concept to the child in a way he could Involvement at Central was also encouraging and MEMBERS of Mr Winget's fifth grade class at Maeser portray mountains while Bob Wilson and other classmates are a pool of water awaiting the sun's rays that will begin the evaporation Barbara Lacy concludes AIS experience here very Pettit presented a concept she had used in the study of vertebrates and Stockman had the teachers moving with the Walton read a story to the teachers as they acted out the drama in movement and Stewart devised a means to perceive past and present tense of verbs through Richens presented a movement approach with concepts helpful to handicapped children at the Learning Even though the AIS program has been concluded in the I hope its concepts will continue I have taken notes of all classes and workshops and have had them recorded and duplicated at the school district office where they are available to all teachers who are in I feel the deepest will be the individual teachers now sparked with class enthusiasm and the imagination to see future areas of study that can be enhanced by the creative movement I also hope that the successful student demonstrations at Maeser and Central will encourage additional teachers to begin to incorporate movement techniques into the professional repertory of teaching |
