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The props my kindergartners created for our #CityGreen play, based on the book by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan. #BaltimoreBabies #SALA #summerartslearningacademy #YoungAudiences #CrunkAcademy @arts4learning

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My novice attempt at a #sandcastle at #SandyPoint . My architectural strategy was function-over-form and defense intensive in consideration of my various foes in this desolate beach ecosystem. I was just getting good at civil engineering when we ran out of time. Of course, while I was taking pictures, a kindergartner buried my feet in the sand, so what knoweth I of defense? Lol @arts4learning #YoungAudiences #SALA #summerartslearningacademy #sandcastles (at Sandy Point State Park Marina)

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"I don't even KNOW how to make a sandcastle!" "I don't know either!" (For some of our #BaltimoreBabies , this trip to #SandyPoint was their first time at the beach!) #YoungAudiences @arts4learning #SALA #summerartslearningacademy #beach #sandcastle #sandcastles (at Sandy Point State Park Marina)

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More #SALA swag. During our field trip to Sandy Point park, one of the flowers from my kinder-garden asked me to hold her visor. Since she shared the name of one of Obama's daughters, I took it as an executive order. But since I didn't feel like holding it, I opted to wear it. @arts4learning #YoungAudiences #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #SandyPoint #RealMenWearPink #dipset #lol (at Sandy Point State Park Marina)

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My teaching partner Ms. RoweGrey and I put together a #SpoofSchool parody of "Juju On That Beat" about number bonds for the rising 1st graders in our #YoungAudiences @arts4learning #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy program. Enjoy! (For more of my adventures as a teaching artist, please visit my @spoofschool page!) [Based on "Juju On That Beat" by Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall] Walked in this class and it's time to do some math, see / Number bond time, so you know I'm real happy / Hey, Mr. A / Ms. Rowe-Grey, Ms. Rowe-Grey / I want y'all to do it / Do this math now / Number bond on that sheet / 1 plus 2 is 3 / Number bond on that sheet / 3 plus 0 is 3 / Now slide, drop / The total's at the top / Well, sometimes it's not / So write it in the right spot . . . aye! / Number bond on that sheet / 7 is 4 plus 3 / Or 5 plus 2 or 6 plus 1 or 7 plus 0, you see / Now do your math, do your math, do your math, aye! / We study! / We know math, son! #numberbonds #mathsongs #jujuonthatbeat (at Coldstream Park Elementary)

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My teaching partner Ms. RoweGrey and I put together a #SpoofSchool parody about number bonds for our rising first graders in our #YoungAudiences @arts4learning #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy class at the #ColdstreamPark site. Enjoy! [Based on "Juju On That Beat" by Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall] Lyrics: Walked in this class and it's time to do some math, see / Number bond time, so you know I'm real happy / Hey, Mr. A / Ms. Rowe-Grey, Ms. Rowe-Grey / I want y'all to do it / Do this math now / Number bond on that sheet / 1 plus 2 is 3 / Number bond on that sheet / 3 plus 0 is 3 / Now slide, drop / The total's at the top / Well, sometimes it's not / So write it in the right spot . . . aye! / Number bond on that sheet / 7 is 4 plus 3 / Or 5 plus 2 or 6 plus 1 or 7 plus 0, you see / Now do your math, do your math, do your math, aye! / We study! / We know math, son! #mathsongs #jujuonthatbeat #numberbonds (at Coldstream Park Elementary)

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Reading #thethreebillygoatsgruff for the first time since childhood with my #BaltimoreBabies in #SummerArtsLearningAcademy . Can't help but rethink who the actual protagonist is. The goats used up all of their resources so they ran the troll off so they could consume his. Something eerily American about that, hence the scholarly side-eye lol . . . Anyway, working on a spoof for the kids mashing Nicki Minaj's "Beez In The Trap" ("Our feet trip and trap and we're eating your grass!") and Kendrick Lamar's "HUMBLE." ("Hold up, Troll; sit down! Hold up, Troll; we Gruffs, yo!") Wish me luck! #SALA #YoungAudiences @arts4learning @spoofschool (at Coldstream Park Elementary)

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"I ain't scared!" "Ooooh, look at that caterpillar!" "Can I see a magnifying glass?" Life as laboratory. @arts4learning #YoungAudiences #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #BaltimoreBabies #CrunkAcademy #butterfly #butterflies #caterpillar #caterpillars #cocoon #cocoons #LadewGardens

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Muse: "Too Much The Same" by @goapele We meet, we dance, we depart / Hopefully, we enhanced each other's art . . #LadewGardens #BaltimoreBabies #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #butterfly #butterflies #YoungAudiences

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Muse: "Too Much The Same" by @goapele . We meet, we dance, we depart / Hopefully, we enhanced each other's art . . . #LadewGardens #BaltimoreBabies #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #butterfly #butterflies @arts4learning

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I spy . . . a butterfly. #BaltimoreBabies #LadewGardens #YoungAudiences #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #SALA #butterfly #butterflies @arts4learning

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#Haiku For The Fallen Monarch: Metamorphosis / Even death beautiful bliss / Your last dance a twitch . . You once ruled the skies / May your new home be true throne / Crowned by the cosmos . . #LadewGardens #BaltimoreBabies #YoungAudiences #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #butterfly #butterflies

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With their amazing growth and change, emerging talents, and penchant for hiding in little pockets, these caterpillars and cocoons remind me of my kindergartners with whom I discovered them. And so I shall treat my classroom like this butterfly house; following Ms. Rachel's advice about being careful "not to squish anybody". @arts4learning #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #LadewGardens #Caterpillars #cocoons #caterpillar #cocoon

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"Summer, summer, summertime / Time to look at butterflies . . " Our guide Miss Rachel leads us to to cove of the creeping, cocooned, and ultimately winged wonders at the lovely Ladew Gardens. My kindergarten girls were fighting over my attention too much, and I didn't want to lose the rest of my hair, so I opted to roll with the fellas. #ladewgardens @arts4learning #YoungAudiences #SALA #SummerArtsLearningAcademy #BaltimoreBabies (at Ladew Gardens)