Elementary School
2009 - 2010 Classroom in the Clay Center Curriculum Guides
Garry Krinsky’s Toying with Science
(Grades K-5)
October 7, 2009, 9:30 or 11:30 am (1 hr.)
Challenge the scientific principles of gravity, leverage, fulcrums, and simple machines with plenty of audience participation in this performance. Check out some of the Clay Center’s favorite science experiments with our BIG Science Demo, immediately following the performance.
Charlotte Blake Alston in Let My Stories Tell You Who I Am
(Grades K-8)
October 22, 2009, 9:30 or 11:30 am (1 hr.)
Listen as Charlotte shares stories that keep with the African oral tradition and promote an understanding of our common human experience by engaging hope, fear and humor. Ask about your tour of the exhibit Lost Kingdoms of the Nile: Nubian Treasures for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston after the show. Be sure to schedule your Nubia in a Nutshell student workshop as part of a package deal.
Peter Pan, co-presented with the Charleston Light Opera Guild
(Grades K-12)
November 4 or 5, 2009, 9:45 am (2 hrs.)
Join Peter and Wendy as they fly over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and in to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Coming this Spring:
Habib Koite & Bamada 
(Grades K-12)
March 8, 2010, 10 am (1 hr.)
Join one of West Africa's best known musicians as he and his group play native Malian and Western instruments. Teachers are encouraged to get the full African culture experience with Habib and the Lost Treasures of the Nile exhibit.
Bob Thompson: The History of Jazz
(Grades K-12)
April 28 or 29, 2010, 11 am (1 hr.)
Since 1991 Bob Thompson has been pianist, and regularly featured artist on the internationally-broadcast public radio show, Mountain Stage. Bob makes his home in the Charleston, West Virginia area, where he has pursued a career in music as a performer, composer, arranger, and teacher. Bob will give us a whirlwind tour of the history of jazz, America’s music.