Teacher Resource Guide by Sangre de Cristo Arts Center

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TEACHER RESOURCES Visit sdc-arts.org/tours for these Teacher Resources and more!

Curriculum Connections | Help filling out Field Trip forms Making it happen (transportation) | Pre & post extension Call (719) 583-6217 to book your tour. It’s easy as 1-2-3!

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H20 Picasso!

Check out these Fall Workshops in conjunction with Picasso|Matisse|Chagall: CLAY: Create a clay project inspired by Picasso’s ceramics with Shane Jarrett, Potter-in-Residence.

$7/student (includes firing) | Min 10 students WATERCOLOR or PASTEL: Use professional grade materials to create your own aquarius inspired painting. $7/student | Min 10 students For more workshops, including The Way West experiences, visit sdc-arts.org/tours.html

Winter Wonderland

BACK STAGE TOUR: This one hour experience gives a peek behind the curtain and the many jobs associated with the entertainment world. Learn basic terminology, stage direction, acting games. Elementary students put on a creative drama play, upper level students try their skills at acting tools and improvisation. $5/student

FAMILY NIGHTS: Visit the Buell Children’s Museum and the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center with the families from your school. Let the arts help you with reading, math, or writing concepts! This taste of art includes catering options as well as an opportunity for students and their care providers to pick up a family membership and come again and again. $2/guest (up to 200 guests)

The Way West

Educators, call 719-295-7205 to be part of River of Words & One Square Block, an environmental literacy program to hone observation, critical thinking and problem-solving as it relates to the watershed. Every block tells a story- be part of this exciting exhibit! Coming on a tour? Teachers visit FREE during regular hours with a School ID to preview exhibitions for classroom use.

Amazing Food Detective

HOURS:

11-5 Tuesday - Friday Open at 9am on Wednesday and for scheduled tours 12-5 Saturday & Sunday

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Register Today! Grades K-12 | Fri, Oct 3, 2014 8:30am - 12pm (SD #70) L70301 | 2:30-6pm (SD #60) L70302 Integrate the exhibits, environmental literacy programs River of Words & One Square Optional CSU-P Credit Block. School districts partnership for recertification credit.

Only $10*

Pre-K-Grade 2* | Wed, April 8, 2015 | 6-7:30 pm | J70303 Get hands-on art, music, dance, and theater activities to help young children learn. In partnership with PCC early Childhood Ed Department for certificate. *Free with Art Start Membership

Tours & Student Guides

Workshops take place in Magic Carpet Theater of Buell Children’s Museum, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center

$5/person | 1 to 7 Chaperone-to-student ratio

Pueblo City Schools and School District #70 and McClelland School are PRE-PAID! Student Guides with pre and post activities are available Tours support Core Curriculum Standards. For field trip form information visit sdc-arts.org/tours.html H2O Picasso! Sept 13 - November 8, 2014

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Sponsored by the Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation

Get your creative juices flowing with Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and more with STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math) activities. Educational experiences dive off of important artworks, all with the theme of water. Fill up with stories, writing, experiments, print-making, terra cotta portraits, and ecological art for all ages. Students act out and sing about the water cycle. Educators, call 719-295-7205 to be part of River of Words, a poetry and visual art experience. Visit www.sdc-arts.org/tours.html for more information. These Fine Arts Exhibits in the Helen T. White Galleries also included in your visit: Picasso|Matisse|Chagall, The Art of the Dream, Gene Kloss: Prints & Portraits, Aquarius National Watermedia

Winter Wonderland November 15 – January 3, 2015 HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES Thrills and chills abound with this exploration of ice, snow, and all things frozen. If the cold never bothers you, this is your exhibit! Traditional Nutcracker Capers, Enchanted Frosty Forest, Mr. & Mrs. Claus, gift making and of course the tallest teddy bear tree in town return to round out the experience. Tours include literacy and film tie-in to snow. Educators, call 719-295-7205 to be part of our Ice Age Mammoth Project. Plus cool connections with Pueblo Community College and Pueblo Plaza Ice Arena. These Fine Arts Exhibits in the Helen T. White Galleries also included in your visit: Picasso|Matisse|Chagall, Own Your Own

The Way West - Along the Goodnight & Loving Trail January 10 - May 30, 2015 WINTER/SPRING 2015 Visit the Francis King Gallery of Western Art, Representing the West and the Buell Children’s Museum’s exhibition, “The Way West” to bring your social studies curriculum alive! Pack your Conestoga wagon, try Pony Express writing, reenact a western painting, weave a bookmark, pan for gold, visit a teepee, and make this a memorable journey west. Look up, Pueblo, and discover native birds with the Nature and Rapor Center of Pueblo. Each teacher receives a Western art collection book showing western artwork from the Francis King Collection. Each student receives the Under Western Skies Sketch Book sponsored by CSU-Pueblo. These Fine Arts Exhibits in the Helen T. White Galleries also included in your visit: Representing the West, The Francis King Collection of Western Art

Colorful Colorado - Camp Create-a-lot! June 6 – November 7, 2015 SUMMER/FALL 2015 Visit our wonderful state without ever leaving Pueblo. Blue columbines, Greenback Cutthroat Trout, Purple Mountain Majesty, Orange sunsets – explore color and creativity in this camp-style exhibit. It’s Red, White and You! Bridge the gap with summer learning and fun with our friends from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. These Fine Arts Exhibits in the Helen T. White Galleries also included in your visit: The Jeanette and Charles White Collection of Contemporary Southwest Art

Student Matinees Nutcracker in a Nutshell

All Grades Wednesday/Thursday, November 19 & 20, 2014 | Main Stage Theater 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:00 noon | Cost: $5/student Your paid admission by November 13th reserves your seats. Hurry, seating is limited! A holiday tradition of the Tchaikovsky classic performed by the Sangre de Cristo Ballet. Fully staged costumes and set, this hour-long ballet experience includes a Question & Answer “Talk Back” session with the cast. Limited tours and workshops are also available during your Nutcracker visit!

The Amazing Food Detective

Pre-K - Grade 8 April 15 & 16, 2015 | Main Stage Theater | 9:00 am, 10:30am, and 12 noon | Cost: $3/student This play invites students to join the sleuth in discovering healthy habits. They will see the effects of junk food on their body and identify healthier food choices for maximum daily energy and fitness. Solve the mystery in this interactive performance. Includes Student resources.

Traveling Show Choose Your Life

Choose Your Life program is available to come to a limited number of schools at no charge when you participate in a tour to the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center and “Face up to Bullies Project.” Visit the Picasso|Matisse|Chagall Exhibition and the Buell Children’s Museum (pre-paid for Pueblo City Schools and School District #70, all others $5/per person) before Jan 3, 2015.

Grades 3 - 8 Give your students strategies to handle bullying situations. This 45-minute show is a high-energy, live-action game show play. Students learn new ways to cope by helping our troubled characters Use Humor, Find Some Friends, Tell an Adult, Take a Stand and Walk Away, Get Involved and Ask a Friend. This program is based on research and content found in the Olweus Bully Prevention Program, the Stop! Bullying Now Program and other research-based bully prevention sources. Includes Student Workbook. Choose Your Life & The Amazing Food Detective sponsored by: