arts & music

Hello BASE Kids & Families!

It’s Miss Melissa, BASE Director of Operations continuing to ROCK OUT your daily family resource guides, adding awesome content to your BASE Kids Lab and preparing for our return to our after school and summer BASE programs.

Today I’m kicking off our BASE Staff Shares series. There are so many program topics and planned activities that your BASE Staff members love and share with you each day through after school and summer programs. One of the best things about BASE is that we can all bring a little about who we are and the things that we enjoy to BASE to share with others. It is a great way for all of us to have fun and learn new things together. You will continue to find BASE Staff Shares posted on our Facebook page, in the BASE Program Blog, and also in the BASE Kids Lab topic tab sections.

I wanted to share some fun and personal things with you about MUSIC. Music has always held a special place in my heart. I learned to play the flute, piano and violin growing up, and I sang in the St. Joseph’s Church children’s choir and adult choir, the Fort Atkinson High School choir, show choir, and high school musicals, and the UW-Milwaukee concert choir. My mother, my older brother Jason, my younger brother Brian, my niece Melody, and my sister-in-law Sarah also play instruments and sing. We sure kept our parents busy coming to all of our concerts and performances! My son Ethan and daughter Aubrey are also enjoying participating in choirs, musicals and playing instruments. I have been looking back at family pictures and videos and I’ll have to share some more of our family music moments as I come back to this music section of posts for you.

My husband Todd and I share a love of music. We enjoy attending rock concerts together. In fact, we put a picture of Todd’s favorite guitarist’s guitar, Zach Myers of the band Shinedown, on our wedding invitation. My sister-in-law Sarah is so artistic that she hand-painted a recreation of our wedding invitation for us as a wedding gift.

Todd and I were lucky enough to meet the band members of Shinedown before enjoying their concert from the front row in March 2019. It was an amazing experience! Do you have a favorite musician or band that you like to listen to? If you could meet a musician or a band, who would you want to meet?

I wanted to post this video below created by a rock band called Godsmack. They are in my list of favorite rock bands. They created a new song and music video called, “Unforgettable.” They included kids in this music video. You will hear kids talk about what music means to them. You will also hear the lead singer Sully Erna talk about the importance and power of music. Sully and the other members of the band teach the kids this new song and they perform it together. I hope you enjoy watching this video and rocking out to this song!

I will continue to post more about music and I encourage you to email any pictures or stories that you would like me to highlight in our BASE website Program Blog and also in the Arts & Music section or other sections of the BASE Kids Lab. Thanks for taking a musical journey with me and allowing me to share a little about what music is to me! melissa@basefortatkinson.org

Hello BASE Kids & Families!

This is the sixth post in our BASE Staff Shares series. There are so many program topics and planned activities that your BASE Staff members love and share with you each day through after school and summer programs. One of the best things about BASE is that we can all bring a little about who we are and the things that we enjoy to BASE to share with others. It is a great way for all of us to have fun and learn new things together. You will continue to find BASE Staff Shares posted on our Facebook page, in the BASE Program Blog, and also in the BASE Kids Lab topic tab sections.

Miss Kate is a Youth Support Specialist at BASE Purdy and during our summer program. Click on the picture below and watch the video of Miss Kate making DIY Sidewalk Paint!

Click on the play button on the picture below to enjoy the Online Art Show!

A very spcial THANK YOU to a mom and daughter team, part of the Learn-To-Do-It weekends at Fullers Library, who shared an amazing resource with us that you can find below. Enjoy the great paper bag crafts by UPrinting!