Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Dia De Los Muertos Calaveras



The drawing begins

Dia De Los Muertos is a whimsical celebration of life and ancestors enjoyed by Spanish-speaking cultures in the Americas. In conjunction with the work done in Spanish class with Maestra ZoBell, I began a short guided drawing and creative decoration activity with the kids. Ideas of symmetry, creating depth and strength through essential line work, and proportionality were explored as we drew our calaveras together.

Next comes oil pastel application and the creation of tissue paper marigolds- the traditional flower of Dia de los Muertos.
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