<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0lOKBH_169lPIZr00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0lOKBH_169lPIZr00" width="1200" height="600" >PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Many students at Petal’s 3-D School are getting a greater understanding of bees. Not from books, though. But, through the theatrical arts.It’s all part of the Whole Schools Initiative, a Mississippi Arts Commission program that just can’t “bee” beat.While third graders at Petal’s 3D school are being really dramatic about bees, they’re also participating in an engaging school lesson.Take it from Kohen Weldon.“It’s really fun,” he said, “because it’s fun to act out the things you learn.”What is it about this lesson that’s got students wanting to learn more?“To me it’s way funner,” Katsie Wells said. “Because we get to do more than sit in our seats.”No sitting around for these students; they’re busy buzzing all over the place. The students are able to create their own skits about bees, or whatever subject matter, dress up and act it out.It’s all under the watchful direction of visiting teaching artist Chris Espinosa XYZ, a Kennedy Center teaching artist and a certified arts integrated teaching artist with Mississippi Whole Schools. “We’re doing arts integration, where we integrate it into some kind of subject, some kind of academic,” Espinoza XYZ said, “and the purpose of that is to get the kids to show us, demonstrate to us, their understanding of the content that they’re learning in the academics by way of an art form. In my case, it’s drama or melodrama.”Espinosa Xyz is working with several grades at the 3D school.He’s helping some students learn about bees. He’s assisting others with language arts. Full time teachers at the school are excited about integrating arts into the curriculum. “We’re in our first year as a whole school, and part of that process is to have artists come in and teach in their method, style,” said Elisabeth Jolly, a third-grade teacher and dyslexia therapist at Petal 3D School. “And it is definitely for the students, but it’s also for the teachers, so that we can kind of glean some ideas of how we can take what he’s doing and tie that back to our lessons.”For more information on this alternative teaching style and Mississippi Whole Schools, visit arts.ms.gov/programs/whole-schools/.Want more WDAM 7 news in your inbox? Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.</div></body>

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PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Many students at Petal’s 3-D School are getting a greater understanding of bees. Not from books, though. But, through the theatrical arts. It’s all part of the Whole Schools Initiative, a Mississippi Arts Commission program that just can’t “bee” beat.

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PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Many students at Petal’s 3-D School are getting a greater understanding of bees. Not from books, though. But, through the theatri

Lesson plans turn into acting class at The 3-D School

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