Third graders at Rowe Elementary School recently participated in a Side x Side program that helped to teach a literacy unit on fairytales through art and storytelling. Students worked with teaching artist Cat Labarre to create fairytale characters and turn them into hinged puppets. They then learned storytelling techniques from teaching artist and master storyteller

Pre-K students at Lyseth Elementary School recently wrapped up a Side x Side improv program led by teaching artist Meg Christie. Integrated with a literacy unit titled, “I’ve got your back!” students worked on emotional awareness through stories, movement, and improv activities and games. Students focused on awareness of others, responsibility and accountability, kindness, taking

Fourth grade students at Talbot Elementary School recently wrapped up a Side x Side program led by teaching artist Anne Ackerman that integrated art making with a science unit on sound waves. Students used printmaking and illustration to create “mega pages” to artistically capture their research on sound waves, how they travel, and how they are

Fourth graders at Ocean Avenue Elementary School recently completed a Side x Side program led by teaching artist Anne Ackerman and integrated with an IB and narrative writing unit on “identity.” Each student created a 2-dimensional art piece that demonstrated parts of their identity without using names or physical descriptions. The program began with students

First grade teachers at Ocean Avenue Elementary School recently collaborated with Side x Side on a “Who We Are” International Baccalaureate (IB) unit. Working with Side x Side teaching artist Sarah Boyden, students created inquiry notebooks with self-portrait puppets and puppet theaters to use throughout the school year.