Hello, edublog community! It’s been a while since I’ve posted, and this is mainly due to having a busy school year without my fabulous co-teacher Kristin. On the upside, I am running the show, and finding tons of pleasure in crafting a curriculum that I’ve been wanting to implement for years.
One fabulous part of this school year is the opportunity to reach the community with classroom blogs through my school’s website. I can finally share all the work we’re doing in art class with parents, hurrah! So, without further ado, here’s my first post for parent viewing:
Welcome to a new and exciting way to communicate about the Visual Arts program at Kingsley Montessori School. This page is intended to give parents a better understanding of what goes on in the art room, show concepts behind skills and techniques, shed light on the “Big Picture,” and share artwork as well as digital media, such as audio and video, more frequently. This will also be the place to find links and resources to help continue learning together at home.
The Arts have many curriculum links into the Montessori Classroom as the year progresses, and we hope to enrich each child’s understanding of the world through song, drama, and art.
New this year in the Elementary Visual Arts program is “Choose Your Own Art Adventure,” where students can pick self-guided art activities, ranging from art criticism, to comic book creation and sculpting. The goals of this set of activities are three-fold: enabling students to independently choose work as they would in their Montessori-style classroom, to allow more valuable learning during “free-time,” and providing an environment for students to discover individual styles and talent through continued experimentation.
As the year begins, our curriculum focus in Elementary Visual Art will be on building an understanding of over-arching concepts in Art such as Aesthetics, Ethics, constructive criticism, and communication through visual media. We will try to answer the question, “What is Art?” and dissect what we like, what we dislike, what we do not understand, and why.
Due to the overwhelming popularity and success of our Drawing-A-Day Challenge and exhibit this past February, we will have another similar challenge during the month of October, with a corresponding celebratory exhibition to share our work in November. Details will be posted very soon!
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