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

Kindergarten fun!



Ah! A few finished apple picnic projects!



Fall, Kindergarten, and apples- is there anything more perfectly matched?


Our youngest students are just learning how to work on large-scale projects. This apple picnic project takes several sessions as we learn to trace, cut, recognize primary colors, mix colors, arrange forms, and add highlights. I enjoy seeing the little faces light up when they see the transformation of red and yellow to orange or blue and yellow to green. Equally satisfying is the pleasure I see as students realize that all these steps lead to a satisfying whole. 

The last touches are done with ants made of thumbprints and a light haze of blue in the sky above. Enjoy some finished images above. 

By the way, do you know what the primary colors are? If not, perhaps you could have a kindergartener sing you our helpful song: "Yellow, red, and blue. Ye;;ow, red, and blue. There are three primary. Yellow, red, and blue!"
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