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NEWSPS 130 Fifth Graders Shine at Annual Puppet Parade!Students showcase large-scale paper maché puppets and perform original monologues! posted: January 31, 2011
PS 60 Students Explore the World Through Dance! Students and parents traveled around the world at the PS 60 International Dance Festival! posted: December 16, 2011
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PS 130 recently celebrated its sixth annual Puppet Parade. Each year, the entire fifth grade participates in this very special event, which is a culmination of their school-wide sequential puppetry curriculum, developed by ArtsConnection. This year's Puppet Parade explored Slavery and Freedom, a theme that aligns with the fifth grade social studies curriculum. The Puppet Parade was accompanied by the school's Core 5 Young Talent Percussion ensemble. Check out the ArtsConnection 
PS 60 had its 7th annual 3rd Grade International Dance Festival. Each 3rd grade classes represents a grade they are currently studying in class. Students performed dances from Italy, Russia, Ireland, Mexico and China filled with costumes, props and lots of smiles! It was a wonderful celebration which ended in a reception with food from the different countries that parents brought in. Check out photos at the 
ArtsConnection’s Student Art Program will be mounting two exhibitions in Spring 2012 with the theme Goals and Dreams. 130 artworks from NYC public school students in grades 6-12 will be selected. We invite art teachers to submit their students’ work by the deadline of Friday, February 10th, 2012. For more information on how to submit artwork, visit the 
Professional Development for Developing English Language Literacy Through the Arts (PD DELLTA), a three-year project funded by the United States Department of Education, kicked off its first year November 6th. PD DELLTA supports collaboration across disciplines among arts educators, ESL teachers and classroom teachers to provide standards-based arts and ELA instruction. Each year, seventy-five teachers from 11 Queens schools will participate in 40 hours of hands-on, comprehensive professional development.
