Elementary Art

Mrs. HargroveEdison, Stoy & Jennings Schools

Expectations

• Every child will follow the rules

• Every child will learn our procedures

• Every child will give it their personal best

• Every child will learn more about art and art making each year

• Every child will have a positive experience!

Class Rules

• 1. Treat everyone and everything in the art room with RESPECT

• 2. Raise your hand to ask a question or give an answer

• 3. Follow all directions and procedures

• 4. Let the teacher teach

• 5. Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself

• 6. Always do your best

Class Procedures• 1. Come in to the room quietly and be

seated

• 2. Begin the warm-up activity immediately

• 3. Listen for directions

• 4. Work until clean-up time

• 5. Put artwork in the appropriate place

• 6. Clean up your mess/area

• 7. Wait quietly in your seat to be dismissed

10 Lessons the Art Teach By Eliot Eisner

1.The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.

2.The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution

3.The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know.

10 Lessons the Art Teach By Eliot Eisner

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.

10 Lessons the Art Teach By Eliot Eisner

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

10 Lessons the Art Teach By Eliot Eisner

eARTh ART with heART

A 2012-13 major focus - A Kindergarten to 5th Grade Unit based on Environmental Awareness-we started by reviewing

the 3 R’s-Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

eARTh Art With HeART

Extravaganza!

Display case at Extravaganza,

with a sampling of elementary

art work.