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.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Falling for Fall








Last week, just before our Fall holiday, I had the opportunity to do one of my favorite one-session activities with second graders. These leaf prints with fall texture and colors are striking, messy,  and all very unique. Students begin by selecting leaves of changing color, observing closely and isolating the areas which should print well on paper. Then the printing is done with white tempera on black paper. finally an aura of warm fall tones is added to create a contrast to the white leaves.

Although this lesson does not connect directly to classroom instruction, it's value is plentiful in meeting educational visual arts standards. Yes, did you know that all students in California are required to be taught certain key concepts about visual arts? We can proudly say that our Del Mar Heights students are flourishing to this end!
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