School Board Presentation

     The Oaklawn 3rd grade team and students were invited to the school board meeting to share what we've been doing with the AIM Project. We shared what the AIM project is about and how we are integrating the arts into our curriculum. There were six students who showcased living portraits of historical figures and conversation poems with rhyming words and props. We also explained what a Tableau is and how we brought historical events to life using paintings from those events. The students used their background knowledge to read an image, write a dialogue and take on the emotion of the people in the paintings. The 3rd graders shared the following quotes to express how they feel about doing AIM in the classroom. "Mrs. Kneeland let us try new things on our own without a script.  It was fun and we got to use props!" "Doing the tableau was fun and a little bit hard because we had to think about what we thought that historical person might be saying. I liked being creative!" "It was exciting to be on stage at the Mabel Tainter with the bright lights shining on us." "Doing fun things with history helped me remember it."  "AIM has given me confidence to speak in front of people. I feel so comfortable now, it's just like sitting down and talking with my family."  "Being on stage made me feel like an actress! We are so thankful for the support for our School Board and Administration.