Earlier this month, relatives and friends of students at the MetroWest Jewish Day School were very busy.

Guests visited classrooms, saw special projects, and came away with a good understanding about what makes the MetroWest Jewish Day School education so superior. 

The morning’s culmination was an interdisciplinary arts performance directed and choreographed by Hamorah Judy Spitzberg. She spent the last three years in Israel studying and teaching art and music in Israeli schools, museums and universities, even at the Israel Philharmonic’s Children concerts with Itzhak Perlman.

 Hamorah Judy, the former art and music teacher at the Metrowest Jewish Day School, received a MA Cultural Council STARS Residencies (Students and Teachers Working with Artists, Scientists, and Scholars) grant for the special June 3 program. She taught our students about integrating the arts – poetry; dance; painting and music; the elements of line, shape and color; along with melody, harmony, texture, form, dynamics, mood and Judaics.

Hamorah Judy showed our visitors that children can easily make connections between various art forms and how to compose work in each art form.

The children studied paintings Juan Miro, Henri Rousseau, Stuart Davis and Wassily Kandinsky.

They were introduced to Dave Brubeck’s jazz. Students even composed original scores and dances.

- Submitted by Victoria Felson, MetroWest Jewish Day School