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, December 20, 2013





Cardinals in the snow
Second Grade


Every now and then it is fun to imagine living in a place where snow falls and white is the dominant color. In this piece we have a visitor in red who has come to set on a branch in the midst of a snowfall.


For this project our second grade students worked on a guided drawing which focused on the idea that every form is made of smaller recognizable forms that are combined with nuance to create an image. The cardinals were perfect for working on ideas of contrast between colors and also analogous color work as we blended colored pencil to finish off the piece.


Printing the snowfall with found resources and working on composition rules about objects entering and exiting the frame were secondary in the light of the fun we had creating these works.


Enjoy!
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