Lower School Fine Arts is off to a creative start this week!
Ms. Crane is working with the Dancemaker App allowing her students to create dance combos!
Mrs. Martin is challenging her students to create a color wheel at home as they study one of the seven elements of art, color!
Mrs. Redman is starting work on monologues with Squirrel by day…Superhero By Night as the subject!
Mrs. Seman is working on piano skills and finger placement of notes. They are working on Hot Cross Buns, Twinkle Little Star, and Mary Had a Little Lamb!
Mr. Snow continues to work on self-portraits with our Pre-K-1st Grade students!

Check out these fun fine arts virtual challenges to try on your own!

Virtual Dance Challenge: Check out the WPS Dance Instagram to participate in the weekly dance challenge. Tag @wpsdance on your videos to be featured on their Instagram story!

Weekend Theatre Arts Challenge: The first-weekend challenge is to sing 20 seconds of your favorite show tune OR monologue while thoroughly washing your hands as directed by the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/index.html. Nominate three more people to take part! Tag @wps.theatre on your video to be featured on the NEW WPS Theatre Instagram.

WOW! It is amazing to see how our students, teachers, and families are coming together for a successful day of virtual learning! We know that the current situation is something that you are not what you are used to, but you are doing great and we are very proud of you. I applaud our health workers, educators, students, and parents. Our teachers have been collaborating with each other via zoom and Google Hangouts to make preparations for the next several weeks. Our private lesson teachers are teaching their lessons via Skype and Zoom. While the challenges we face are vast, we will persevere as a school community and support all learners to reach their potential via our distance learning plan. Please reach out to me should you have any questions: jason.king@windermereprep.com

Wishing everyone good health and peace without end.

Please enjoy a message from our Lower School Fine Arts Teachers to students: https://youtu.be/6G7hQdO8mXE

Please take on the #colorwheelchallenge with Mrs. Martin: https://youtu.be/2wJxH_L8tIo

Student perspectives regarding the Juilliard Collaboration at WPS: https://youtu.be/TngItnwlQC0

You are invited to see a kaleidoscope of talent and color next week and the following week!

Our IB Senior Dance students will present their original compositions during the IB Senior Dance Concert beginning at 7:00 pm on Thursday, February 27, inside the Dr. Thomas L. Marcy Theatre.

Our IB Senior Visual Arts students will present their masterpieces on Monday, March 2! This show will be on display inside the Cypress Center Atrium and will begin at 5:00 pm. The show will end at 8:00 pm.

We appreciate the many efforts in developing, leading, and inspiring our IB Dance and Visual Arts students! Thank you, Ms. Hadley and Mr. Miller! We hope to see all of you there!

Join Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, and many other colorful characters from Lewis Carroll’s classic tale Alice in Wonderland, in the WPS Middle & High School Theatre Department’s production at the Cypress Center for the Arts. Our Theatre Department’s version reaches audiences with Alice’s magical trip down the rabbit hole to a world where chess pieces and playing cards come to life, doors and tables talk, and queens rule the land.

The show dates are March 5-7, 7:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased here: https://teachtix.com/wps/alice-in-wonderland

You are also invited to meet Alice, the Mad Hatter, and so many others at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party on Saturday, March 7, at 11:00 am, Cypress Center Plaza. There will be limited seating for this event. Tickets for this event may be purchased at https://teachtix.com/wps/mad-hatters-tea-party

Please reach out to me if you should have any questions. Thanks, everyone!