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, November 1, 2013

Seasonal fun and learning







The third graders enjoyed a one-class project this week as they created symmetrical seasonal designs of their choosing using a simple but visually captivating technique. Sometimes it's good to get a project done in a day, just so that the end results are readily apparent.

In addition to being quite fun, this project worked with ideas of proportion, symmetry, spacial relationships and manipulation, negative space, essential line, and technical work with paper-cutting.
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