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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Printed Rainbow Serpents as inspired by Aboriginal folktales






The fantastic First-graders concluded their year with a literature and art study that combined traditional folktales of Australian Aborigines with color theory, printmaking, and basic composition themes. The results are whimsical and wonderful. Well done!
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