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 7, 2014

Kumeyaay-inspired woven baskets


As the third grade students of our lovely school study the lives of the local indigenous groups they encounter recurring themes based around creative problem-solving to enable subsistence. Kumeyaay peoples used woven baskets to store, transport, cook, and create.

In our art studio, third graders learned to create a woven basket on an armature made of a disposable cup. Their fine motor skills improved as they struggled along towards a finished project. Now, this may seem simple, but to create these baskets were quite a task for our little artists. Well done!
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