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C.H. Campbell fourth-graders celebrate Ohio history
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.C.H. Campbell Elementary School fourth-grader Ashley Story proudly displayed her artwork during the school’s annual Evening of Art and Music May 12.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Fourth-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School complemented the song selections at their Evening of Art and Music with several instruments.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Fourth-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School held up letters during the song “Round on the End and High in the Middle” during the school’s Evening of Art and Music May 12.
By ABBY SLANKER
Fourth-grade students at C.H. Campbell Elementary School celebrated Ohio’s history during the school’s annual Evening of Art and Music May 12. The students presented a concert to honor America and Ohio through music and created pieces of artwork honoring the history of our state.
The concert, under the direction of C.H. Campbell music teacher Janet Williams, included musical selections “The Star Spangled Banner,” “Ohio is The Buckeye State,” “Chippewa Lullaby,” “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” “Hang On, Sloopy” and the CHC Alma Mater. Classical melodies included “Ode to Joy,” “Amazing Grace” and “Can-Can” and popular music included “Puff the Magic Dragon,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and “Dynamite.”
Several students volunteered to prepare additional string music, wind music, percussion and rhythmic movement (dance) complemented some song performances. Students also introduced the song selections, telling the history behind the songs.
The students closed the concert with “Fifty, Nifty United States,” during which they held up cutouts of the states as they sang its name.
“I am exceptionally proud of this fourth-grade class,” said Williams. “They have worked very hard on this program.”
The students’ artwork, which were completed throughout the year in art class taught by Diane Leonard, were on display before and after the show and represented specific connections with Ohio heritage.
Featured artwork included a ceramics project which represented the evolution of the pottery industry in Ohio; printmaking and Ohio news focusing on current events; Native American rattles; Shaker gift drawings focusing on the buckeye tree; a tribute to their famous Ohioans — a parody on the painting American Gothic; Ohio impressionism with inspiration from Alice Schille; graphic design using the elements of art and/or design and what life what like in the early West with inspiration from Frederick Remington.
At the end of the program, the students presented Williams and Leonard with hanging baskets as a token of their appreciation.