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2021 OMA DIG AND DISCOVER: Investigating Art of the Ancient Americas

Docent-led gallery program for elementary students in which they investigate ancient cultures of North, Central and South America through beautiful artifacts in the Art of the Ancient Americas collection. Students become archaeologists, including participating in a mock “dig.” The program helps students explore how art and archaeology help us learn about the past.

A Good Day for Pancake/DIGITAL

Online & Streaming

A Good Day for Pancake/DIGITAL (Social Emotional Learning – Bully Prevention for grades PreK-2nd) When a friend is bullied at school, Pancake the Pig doesn’t know how to help. As the bullying gets worse, Pancake and his friends soon learn the difference between tattling and reporting, the definition of bullying behavior, and how to stand together to stop the bullying. A Good Day for Pancake/DIGITAL encourages empathy and demonstrates to young audiences how to go from bystanders to Upstanders. Featuring engaging music and cuddly puppet characters, the show provides interaction with youngsters as they laugh and sing along with Pancake and his friends. Children are engaged in call and response and learn songs about reporting (not tattling) bullying behavior. Together they learn valuable lessons in bully prevention. This DIGITAL show length is 30 minutes Available: All Year Fee: $400 Digital Activity Guide included

A Good Day for Pancake/LIVE

In-School Performance

A Good Day for Pancake/LIVE (Social Emotional Learning – Bully Prevention for grades PreK – 2nd) When a friend is bullied at school, Pancake the Pig doesn’t know how to help. As the bullying gets worse, Pancake and his friends soon learn the difference between tattling and reporting, the definition of bullying behavior, and how to stand together to stop the bullying. A Good Day for Pancake/LIVE encourages empathy and demonstrates to young audiences how to go from bystanders to Upstanders. Featuring engaging music and cuddly puppet characters, the show provides interaction with youngsters as they laugh and sing along with Pancake and his friends. Children are engaged in call and response and learn songs about reporting (not tattling) bullying behavior. Together they learn valuable lessons in bully prevention. This LIVE performance is 30 minutes in length Available: All Year Fee: $400 Digital Activity Guide included

A Musical Journey Through Florida

In-School Performance

Chris Kahl takes audiences on a Musical Journey Through Florida, highlighting the rich history and culture of the Sunshine State. This folk music presentation takes students on a historical journey through the state, featuring performances of original songs and stories, and covering a wealth of historical events, characters, and folklore. Topics include Ponce de Leon’s voyage to Florida in 1513, the rise of Florida’s citrus industry, how railroads opened up Florida to tourism, and the Seminole tribe and their relationship to the Everglades eco-system and its species. In addition to Florida history, Chris will cover his folk instruments (acoustic guitar and harmonica), his folk performing style, and his songwriting process. The presentation covers key aspects in the Florida Studies unit, as well as numerous Florida Standards.

A Walk through Our Community - Mapping Skills, Citizen Heroes, and a Scavenger Hunt! (Grades 1 and 2)

Field Trip

In this program, first and second grade students experience three activities: 1) learning about “Citizen Heroes” who made significant contributions and how they, too, can be citizen heroes; 2) searching through the Heritage Museum looking for items on a scavenger hunt; 3) and developing mapping skills while walking along the West Orange Trail in search of buildings that are important to our community. The concept of “community” is stressed throughout, both in the students’ lives and in their visit to Winter Garden’s Downtown Historic District. It’s hands-on history!

ACT Youth presents City Mouse, Country Mouse

Field Trip

The Atlantic Coast Theatre for Youth company presents an exciting performance of The Snow Queen! This updated musical version of Aesop’s Fable is filled with lessons in diversity, original songs, and audience participation. A.C.T. For Youth is an acclaimed professional touring theatre company based in Orlando, FL. Each year, the Atlantic Coast Theatre performs hundreds of shows for students across the USA. ACT for Youth’s high quality educational programming is recognized nationally by theatres, schools, art councils, libraries and festivals-not to mention the thousands of children & families who see ACT shows each year!

ACT Youth presents The Snow Queen

Field Trip

The Atlantic Coast Theatre for Youth company presents an exciting performance of The Snow Queen! Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of adventure comes to life in this musical adaptation. Gerda must save her friend, Kay, who has become enchanted and can see no good in the world. Gerda seeks help from a talking (and singing) crow, the notorious (and comic) Robber Prince, and a Reindeer Herder (and her audience participant reindeer), as they try to save Kay from the mysterious Snow Queen. A.C.T. For Youth is an acclaimed professional touring theatre company based in Orlando, FL. Each year, the Atlantic Coast Theatre performs hundreds of shows for students across the USA. ACT for Youth’s high quality educational programming is recognized nationally by theatres, schools, art councils, libraries and festivals-not to mention the thousands of children & families who see ACT shows each year!

Art in the Archives Temporary Exhibit Tour and Art Project

Field Trip

This tour takes students through the Welcome Center and History Museum, with a private tour of the Temporary Exhibit room. Students with then participate in a hands-on art activity that connects to the history displayed in the Temporary Exhibit.

Arts Integration Digital Learning

Online & Streaming

Did you know our brains are hard-wired to connect music with long-term memory? Infuse music into your classrooms with access to these virtual lessons that teach the basics of language arts, math, and social studies through song! As part of its outstanding educational outreach program, The Winter Park Playhouse is proud to offer digital curriculum to supplement your in-person or digital classroom! Using songs from Schoolhouse Rock, Live! Jr, you will be provided short and engaging videos (via private video links) where music education will support classroom curriculum — teaching your students in a way that they will remember for many years to come. Songs include “A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing,” “Unpack Your Adjectives,” “The Preamble,” “Interjections,” “Three is a Magic Number,” and “Conjunction Junction.” Each packet provides a virtual lesson, as well as an opportunity for your students to submit a recording of themselves showing their mastery of the song or dance. Lessons are also supported with accompanying worksheets.

Arts Integration: MOTOWN

Online & Streaming

Travel back in time with the music and history of Motown! Get your students singing and dancing to the classic hits of the Jackson 5, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Four Tops in this newly expanded interactive digital program. As part of its outstanding educational outreach program, The Winter Park Playhouse is proud to offer digital curriculum to supplement your classroom! Students will learn a section of music and choreography from Motown standards, as well as supplemental lessons in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The Winter Park Playhouse will provide engaging video lessons (via private video links) focused on Motown songs and choreography— teaching your students in a way that they will remember for many years to come. Each packet contains lesson plans supported with accompanying links for further discovery of Motown history.

Circuits, Connectivity, Communication

Field Trip

Join the Art & History Museums of Maitland to tour our interactive Telephone Museum. Students will learn how to create their own circuit boards with this STEM programming. Students will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and hands-on experience with building a circuit to communicate with each other using Morse code. Students will gain a basic understanding of circuitry and the components that need to come together in order to make a simple circuit work. We will go over the history of communication introducing big inventors who helped in the advancement of communication. Then students will have an opportunity to create their own circuit board with the tools and materials we provide. There will also be opportunities for them to troubleshoot and figure out on their own how to add components and make an even more complex circuit.

Crealdé Private and Homeschool Field Trip - A Visit to the Art Studio (Grades 1-8)

Field Trip

Visit a working art studio with a three-part experience: an art-making demonstration on the potter’s wheel, a scavenger hunt through the Contemporary Sculpture Garden and a hands-on art activity. The experience can be tailored to specific concepts or topics being studied. Call for availability.

Crealdé Public School Field Trip - Art Adventure: A Visit to the Art Studio (Grades 2-3)

Field Trip

Visit a working art studio with a three-part experience: observing an artist at work on the potter’s wheel, touring the Contemporary Sculpture Garden and galleries, and creating a hands-on art activity. Grant funding is available for OCPS 2nd and 3rd graders; transportation must be reserved by the school.

Creative Drama: Discover Your Inner Character

In-School Workshops & Classes ; Online & Streaming

In this course students will learn the techniques of Creative Drama in a safe and welcoming environment through the utilization of improv techniques. This workshop will focus on 5 main components of creative drama: Body Awareness, Space, Interaction & Quick Thinking, & Character Building. (Topics to choose from really best if built upon, but can be taken individually or combined into one 2 hour workshop ) Body Awareness These acting exercises focus on the student looking inward. The goal is to inspire concentration and allow students to check in with their bodies and find focused energy. Space These acting exercises help develop an understanding of surroundings. It also challenges students to explore characters and experience different points of view while engaging with ideas outside of themselves. Interaction These acting exercises focus on group interaction using both non-verbal communication, expression, & body language. Quick Thinking These acting exercises encourage students to think quickly, creatively and independently of their peers. Be prepared to be silly and have fun! Character Development These exercises challenge students to think outside themselves. How may your point of view change when thinking as someone else?

Creative Writing: Narrative Writing

Residency (including Camps)

This personal/imaginative narrative/Creative Writing residency relates to the curriculum in the following ways: 1) it teaches the use of describing words in written expression; 2) it models the use of different kinds of sentences; 3) it teaches students how to write a creative narrative story; 4) it encourages the personal interpretation of the expressive qualities of art; 5) it teaches students how to draw concepts and ideas from other subjects; 6) It uses culture and environment as inspiration for creating art; 7) it uses real and imaginary subject matter in works of art Program Objectives: 1) Students will be presented with an easy-to-remember method for writing creative and personal narrative stories; 2) Students will be given a solid theoretical understanding of creative writing: character (who), location (setting), action (what) and problem (why). 3) Students will be taught to create and visualize dramatic situations to use as ideas for writing.

Cultures Around The World - India

In-School Performance ; In-School Workshops & Classes ; Student Showcase Opportunities

This program offers a multidisciplinary approach to learning about Indian culture through textiles, artwork, dance, and music.

Dance

In-School Workshops & Classes ; Online & Streaming

This introductory course is designed to inspire even the most self-conscious person to discover their inner dancer by moving through the energizing and lyrical rhythms of the most glorious music!

Discover Math and Science/DIGITAL

Online & Streaming

Discover Math and Science/DIGITAL (STEAM Education for PreK-Kindergarten) This digital show is packed with math and science concepts for PreK – 1st grades, our standard 30-minute live show has been split into four, easy to watch videos. Students travel around the sun to visit winter, spring, summer and autumn. Winter introduces the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes as we discover a circle, sphere, and triangle. Then students explore the concepts of “over,” “under,” and “around.” Spring combines 2-dimensional shapes to explore the relationship between bees flowers. Students pretend to be bees spreading pollen and drinking nectar. Summer takes students to the beach where they discover a 3-dimensional cone, explore the concepts of “more,” “less,” and “most,” then participate in addition and subtraction. Autumn brings precipitation, introduces a 2-dimensional rectangle, a 3-dimensional cylinder, and provides students with a close up look at how ants help plants to grow. This DIGITAL show length is 30 minutes A Digital Teacher’s Activity Guide and Parent’s Activity Guides in English and Spanish are included

Discover Math and Science/LIVE

In-School Performance

Discover Math and Science/LIVE (STEAM Education for PreK-Kindergarten) This LIVE show is packed with math and science concepts for PreK – 1st grade. Students travel around the sun to visit winter, spring, summer and autumn. Winter introduces the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes as we discover a circle, sphere, and triangle. Then students explore the concepts of “over,” “under,” and “around.” Spring combines 2-dimensional shapes to explore the relationship between bees and flowers. Students pretend to be bees spreading pollen and drinking nectar. Summer takes students to the beach where they discover a 3-dimensional cone, explore the concepts of “more,” “less,” and “most,” then participate in addition and subtraction. Autumn brings precipitation, introduces a 2-dimensional rectangle, a 3-dimensional cylinder, and provides students with a close up look at how ants help plants to grow. This LIVE show length is 30 minutes You may have up to 3 back-to-back performances on the same day, each up to 60 students A GREAT VALUE at $400 for up to 3 back-to-back performances A Digital Teacher’s Activity Guide and Parent’s Activity Guides in English and Spanish are included

Dr. Norman M. Wall Professional Development Series

Professional Development

Throughout the year, the Holocaust Center offers professional development to teachers to assist them with teaching the Holocaust in their classrooms. The Teacher Forums to connect the dots between the past and present while illuminating key influences from history on our times. Drawing upon lessons from the Holocaust and the World War II era, participants will explore the context that history provides to the modern world.

Drum Sermons: Folktales, Legends, and Myths from the Far Corners of Africa

In-School Performance ; In-School Workshops & Classes ; Online & Streaming ; Professional Development ; Residency (including Camps); Student Showcase Opportunities

Drum Sermons: Folktales, Legends, and Myths from the Far Corners of Africa Drum Sermons is a celebration of music that recounts its origins and makes clear how it came to live in our hearts. This informative yet entertaining performance includes stories from the Far Corners of the African continent, spirited drumming, a lesson on hand drumming technique, dance, song, and a healthy dose of the obligatory African tradition of audience participation. Drum Sermons is offered formatted as workshops, residencies, and celebratory performances, with an audience capacity of 1000. The presenters of Drum Sermons is Orisirisi African Folklore- a performing arts company rooted in the history, culture, and traditions of Africa and the African diaspora, inclusive of folktales, legends, and myths, spirited drumming, dance and song, children’s games, and lectures on special topics. The nationally and internationally acclaimed performing arts and educational initiative was founded in 1986 by husband-and-wife team Don and Tutu Harrell, with the expressed purpose of sharing the beauty and poignancy of African life and culture. Orisirisi has provided its unique brand of folklore, for countless people from a vast array of demographics and cultural backgrounds at primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, festivals, churches, libraries, museums, conferences, corporate and teacher in-services, television and radio programs, special events including an approximately 12,000 show run at Walt Disney World’s Epcot and being featured in the WUCF/PBS Emmy Award-Winning Special-GRRI-IFIC Neighbors with Daniel Tigers.

Drum Sermons: Folktales, Legends, and Myths from the Far Corners of Africa

In-School Performance ; In-School Workshops & Classes ; Online & Streaming ; Professional Development ; Residency (including Camps); Student Showcase Opportunities

Experience History through Architecture, Costumes, and Citizen Super Heroes! (Grades 4 and 5)

Field Trip

In this 2 1/2 hour program, students are led by staff through the 20th century beginning with a colorful and fun PowerPoint presentation called “Timucua, Trains, and Trees.” It addresses local history as impacted by major national and international events and how those events shaped Central Florida – including the history of citrus, and the saga of Lake Apopka, the region’s most important natural resource. It addresses the effects of farming and other industries on the farm workers, as well as the tourist facilities that were once located around the lake. Following the presentation, classes engage in three activities where they: 1) use detective skills to match photos of historic buildings to how buildings along Plant Street appear today; 2) explore the Winter Garden Heritage Museum, uncovering information about Citizen Heroes; 3) and dress as costumed Native Americans, farmers, business owners, or fishermen to answer questions about their influence on the region

Fairy Tale Writing and Acting

In-School Workshops & Classes ; Residency (including Camps)

In one week Laura Courter will help your students will create, as a class, their very own Fairy Tale! Using the organizational method CLAP: C (character), L (Location/Setting), A (Action), P (Plot). Writing is combined with Creative Dramatic techniques as the students act out characters from Fairy Tales, settings from Fairy Tales, and use acting to devise the action and plot of their stories. On the last day of the residency the students will perform their Fairy Tale as a class! This residency 1) teaches the use of describing words in written expression; 2) models the use of different kinds of sentences; 3) teaches students how to write a creative fairy tale; 4) encourages the personal interpretation of the expressive qualities of art; 5) teaches students how to draw concepts and ideas from other subjects; 6) uses culture and environment as inspiration for creating art; 7) uses real and imaginary subject matter in works of art Program Objectives: 1) Students will be presented with an easy-to-remember method for writing Fairy Tale 2) Students will be given a solid theoretical understanding of Fairy Tale writing: character (who), location (setting), action (what) and problem (why). 3) Students will be taught to create and visualize dramatic situations to use as ideas for writing.

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