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, May 9, 2014

Butterfly Ceramics






As a part of our sixth-graders' studies of world war two and the holocaust, students are asked to create a symbolic butterfly, inscribed with the name of a child who experienced those most grim days. After hearing from survivors of the holocaust and viewing powerful media in study of the times, students worked individually or in teams to template and craft the elegant pieces. 

 After drying they were glazed and fired. Careful attention to building contrast through color is emphasized. These Butterflies will be displayed in our Multi-Use Room. Finally, a sampling of the pieces will be sent to important touch-point organizations who will display the works as a tribute and memory to those who were persecuted. 
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