Eta Cuisenaire Teacher development, speeches part of Blue Ribbon finale at Grayslake D46
Professional development sessions, South Carolina's 2008 teacher of the year and a psychologist were part of the mix for the finale of an education conference at Grayslake Elementary District 46.than 100 educators will be wrapping up a two-day conference at Grayslake Elementary District 46's Park Campus, with 2008 South Carolina Teacher of the Year Ann Marie Taylor giving a keynote address.
Home schooling your children? Is art part of your curriculum planning?
Including art in your daily lesson plans will ensure the best education for your kids When I say good art I am not talking about the standard traditional arts and crafts that is done in so many preschool and kindergarten classrooms all over the world. If you are doing Kids Crafts then hopefully you are already doing crafts with your kids that does not make them into robots.
It is a s a result of classroom teachers lack of understanding of art for children, that causes them to resort to the same copycat crafts for kids. But this can’t be what you want. Parents that choose home schooling over tradtional schooling are doing it because they want more for their kids I'm sure if you knew that by following cookie cutter directions in making projects, it would turn them into robots, you would not want that for your children. Am I right? What I’m really talking about here is not only good crafts for kids but real art that often gets lost in the shuffle. That's too bad because art adds such depth to any curriculum that it would be a crying shame as you are at home and are able to give such great activities to your children . Art is wonderful and exciting and adds great skills. Here are five good skills that art adds to any curriculum 1. Art will help build physical coordination- Art is good for both gross motor coordination AND fine motor coordination. Gross motor skills and fine motor skills when using their large and fine muscles in activities like cutting, painting, coloring and drawing. 2. Emotional developmentis addressed-. Pounding on clay is better than pounding on a sibling, as is coloring furiously better than pinching. When children have art to use at their will, they can work through traumas like family death and fires much more easily 3. Intellectual development can be tied in- Children learn to make sense of their world as they use art to count, classify, sort, make their own decisions and learn to follow directions without doing cookie cutter art. 4. Creativity is tremedously affected-Of course children's creativity takes a flying leap if they are allowed to do art that allows them to create at their own level, which allows them to be creative in more ways than one 5. Integrating curriculumhappens naturally- And last but not least art in a home schooling curriculum can help integrate the curriculum and help them learn. By adding art into the childrren's curriculum at home and accessing their five senses, the more their curriculum will stay with them for life. You may want to check out this post on creativity in artAre flowers always red and green which is sort of a takeoff on the famous song by Harry Chapin “Flowers are red”.
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