CULTURE FOCUS (enabling kids to feel “PART” of the world & NOT “APART FROM” the world!)
Children are exposed daily to the following places, artists, composers/musicians, and faces of creativity.
YEAR 1 & 3
PLACES: Great Wall of China, Mount Everest, Taj Mahal, Grand Canyon, Pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, Kyoto, Venice, The Vatican, Crystal Bridges, Famous World Caves, Sydney Opera House, Arlington National Cemetery, Plimoth Plantation, Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, Victorian England, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Palace/Parliament, International Space Station, Paris, Amazon Rainforest, The Serengeti, Walt Disney World, Pompeii, Tibet in Exile, India, Istanbul, Sri Lanka, Jerusalem, Washington D.C., Weiner, Arkansas
ARTISTS: Monet, Renoir, Grant Wood, Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keefe, Bierstadt, Hokusai, Durer, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Munch, Rivera, Titian, Norman Rockwell, El Greco, Constable, Currier and Ives, David, Degas, Vermeer, Mary Cassatt, J. M. W. Turner, Winslow Homer, Whistler, Seurat, Van Gogh, Disney, Sargent, Chagall, Kandinsky, Picasso, Dali, Remington, Mondrian, Pollock
COMPOSER/MUSICIANS: Beethoven, Debussy, Sousa, Mozart, John Williams, William Grant Still, Carl Orff, Amy Beach, Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Johnny Cash, Aaron Copland, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Johnny Marks, Leroy Anderson, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, Glen Campbell, Woody Guthrie, George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Henry Mancini, Alan Menken
FACES OF CREATIVITY: Rosa Parks, Pope Francis, Michelle Obama, Beatrix Potter, Eythor Bender, Benjamin Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Theodore Geisel, John Muir, Sam Walton, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Edison, Misty Copeland, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Marie Curie, Hattie Caraway, Steve Jobs, Jules Verne, Joan of Arc, Augusta Rodin, Sir Edmund Hillary, Andreas Bocelli, Mohammed Ali, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, Kate Middleton, Malala Yousafzai, Dr. Ken Robinson, Michelangelo, Shirley Temple, Bobby Fischer, Jimmy Nelson, Margaret Thatcher, Manny Stepanek, Pele, Dian Fossey, P. T. Barnum, Confucius, Anne Frank, Oprah Winfrey, Sadako, Sasaki, J.K. Rowling, Albert Einstein, Maathai Wangari, Miyazaki Hayao, Maya Angelou, Willard Wigan, Queen Elizabeth II, Frida Kahlo, Babe Ruth, Heston Blumenthal, Shel Silverstein, Jackie Robinson, Billy Graham, Sheryl Sandberg, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Dalai Lama, Marion Anderson, Marty Bishop, M.C. Escher, Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Hillary Clinton, Clara Barton, James Audubon, Sally Ride, William Bradford, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Charles LIndbergh, Walt Disney, Julia Butterfly Hill, I. M. Pei, Jonas Salk, Mother Teresa, Shigeru Miyamato, Princess Diana, Elie Wiesel, Victor Hugo, Angela Merkel, George Lucas, Barbra Streisand, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Goddard, Werner Von Braun, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Dr. Jim Green, Mother Nature, Sting, Dr. David Dvarella, James Cameron, the Kayapo, Julie Taymor, Disney Imagineers, Thomas Staggs, Joe Rohde, Jessi Hicks, Calvin and Hobbes, Katie Higgins, Sandy Powell, Marianne North, Noah Galloway, Itzhak Perlman, Benjamin, Netanyahu, Moshe Sadie, St. Helen, Barack Obama, Rick Crawford/Tom Cotton/John Boozman, Maya Lin, Abigail Adams, J.G. Probst, Wallace Claypool, Grace Dinsmore, Weiner Student Oral Historians
YEAR 2
PLACES: Cinque Terre, Petra, Yosemite, Neuschwanstein Castle, Galapagos Islands, Keukenhof, Thorncrown Chapel, Machu Picchu, Chicago, Memphis, Scandinavia, The Dead Sea, Prague, Rome, Beijing, Christmas, Greece, Mecca, Ireland, Moscow, Chichen Itza, Palace of Versailles, Dubai, Cario Egypt, Freedom Tower, Barcelona, New York City, Angkor Wat, Terra Cotta Soldiers, Mount Rushmore, Parkin Archeological Park, Kilimanjaro, Florence
ARTISTS: Grandma Moses, Davis, Durer and Line, Matisse and Shape, Van Eyck and Texture, Velazquez and Space, Monet and Color, Rembrandt and Value, da Vinci and Drawing, Cassatt and Painting, Hokusai and Printmaking, Picasso and Collage, Rivera and Murals, Michelangelo and Sculpture, Relief Sculpture, Thanksgiving Art, Rodin & Modern Sculpture, Schultz & Cartooning, Van Allsburg & Illustration, Warhol & Pattern, Escher & Positive/Negative Space, Van Gogh and Rhythm, O’Keefe & Scale/Proportion
COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS: Dolly Parton, Randall Standridge, Beach Boys, Richard Wagner, John Lennon, Camille Saint-Saens, Rossini, Bobby McFerrin, Chicago, Elvis Presley, J.S. Bach, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Varese, Bedrich Smentana, Johnny Marks, Chopin, George Cohen
FACES OF CREATIVITY: Jens Bergensten, Courtney Westlake, Sree Sreenivasan, Jocelyn Leavitt, Tara Harrelson, Audrey Hepburn, Klaus Frahm, Thomas Dambo, Sir Nicholas Winton, Danny Macaskill, Ono Gaff, Oklahoma Girls’ Softball Team, Babies, Elena Shumilova, David Irvine, Ben Brucker, Studio Drift, Tanya Schultz, HiBot, Olivia Muus, Carlos Perez Naval, Center for Process Innovation, Animal Architects!, Ross Symons, Ingrid Sundberg, Cheryl Angelelli, Ian Deibert & Nick Sjolinder, Max Gunawan, Tanaka Tatsuya, Tara Tabby, One World Play Project, Sam Van Aken, Markus Fischer, Jirka Vincse Johnathan Vaatainen, Louie Psihoyos & Travis Threlkel, Cyndi Oaks, Samsara, Tagou Martial Arts School, Tibetan Buddhist Monks - sand mandalas creators, 1000 Hands Dancers of China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe, CPDRC Dancing Inmates, Suzy Batiz, PianoArc, Petmate, Lily Pacifier Weaning System, AirPano, Asian Kids’ Basketball Drill Team, Willie Anderson, Kristen Griest & Capt. Shaye Haver, Not Impossible Lab, Laura Sumrall, Charles Petillon, Shea Hembrey, Jake Weidmann, Hal Taylor, Peter Bellerby, Delta Airline Safety Video, Ivan Konstantinovich, Simin Qiu, Dan Mengedoht, Jane Long, Michael Binder, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Renaldi, Connie & Gordon Hankins, Bryan Ware & Crayon Initiative, Edyn, Ross Sisters, Phillip Morgese, Crystal Bridges & Frank Lloyd Wright House, Brendan Powell Smith, Peter Menzel, Jim Kay, Bella & George, Morton Buildings, Mark Dillon, Nicola Basic, Seville’s Mapping Show, Rijksmuseum Banned Cameras, “How Does He?”, Mighty Girl, Alan McFadyn, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Aaron Culling, National Geographic’s Best Photos 2015, Brains-On Podcast, Gift of Failure Week, AshDome, 3-D Printing, Anaya Ellick, Kaleidescope Solar Tent, Jeffrey Mitchem, Ringscapes, Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Creative Packaging, Statisticians Week, Creative Test Taking,
