Title: Encompassing the Arts Across the Grades Subject/Content Areas: Language Arts, Visual Art, & Music Grade Levels: 2nd, 5th, & 8th Project Time Line: Projection of amount of time needed includes one to two weeks for four 2nd grade classes to create and to upload their drawings on VoiceThread.com, three weeks, (M-F 45 min. /day), for 5th graders to complete the entire process of writing and publishing their poetry, and two weeks for 8th grade students to compose and publish their music to complement the drawing and its poetry using VoiceThread. These times are projections. They may change. Overview: This is a collaborative VoiceThread from three different classes within my district (2nd, 5th, and 8th grade students). This project is an example of the power of collaboration using technology that encompasses art through words, visuals, and music. Creating a drawing using the Web 2.0 tool, Palcu Drawing for Children, that depicts a favorite place to visit or imagine visiting is the task of the 2nd graders. Second graders are not only drawing using an online drawing program, but are fulfilling language arts standards by writing at least two complete sentences that adequately describe the picture they have drawn. The sentences will be one of two places or may be both. The drawing program, Palcu Drawing for Children, allows the children to use a text tool to keyboard their sentence directly on their drawing. Students will save their drawings before uploading them to VoiceThread.com. In order to fulfill the collaboration portion of the 2nd graders’ task, they use VoiceThread.com to upload their saved drawing and then use the text tool to once again keyboard their sentence(s). Using the VoiceThreads recording tool, the 2nd g... ... middle of paper ... ...rom the secondary music instructor. I will provide feedback orally and/or text by personally commenting on the VoiceThread that has their composition. Another option of providing closure would be to solicit students’ help and creativity to invite parents/guardians/family for an evening when the presentation of the project’s VoiceThread would be shown to all, also providing a time for refreshments and sharing aspects of the project itself. • Assessment: The assessment procedures will only pertain to the 5th graders’ portion of the online collaborative project. Above I suggested procedures for the 2nd and 8th grade portions. Due to the complexity and subjectiveness of writing and publishing poetry, I believe that a rubric would be the best assessment tool to use in assessing criteria for each 5th grade student. E:PBS Comm_Collab OnlinePoetry Rubric.doc
I choose this project because I thought this would be a fun activity to do with people in the class incorporating group activity, brainstorming and other ideas of other students perspectives and ideas have come into. Also to carry out what I have learned through the year plus to get more experience of caring out performances and learning how to:
Assess Peter’s curriculum modifications (reading, journal writing, and activities in music class). Did you feel they were effective? Why or why not?
Upon series completion, the Drawing Inquiry (DI) form is used as a tool for verbal processing of the pictures. The participant is asked
Poetry may be the hardest form of literature to examine, at least for me. After reading some of our assigned poems this semester I was left completely confused, as to not only the authors purpose, but also the relevance and importance of the poem; None ...
The Wilson Elementary School Project was our first mural project. It included painting kindness rocks and working on animals cut out that are native to Oklahoma. There was a flow of positive feelings that I felt before and during the completion of the project. As a matter of fact, this experience was valuable because it allowed us to provide the student and teachers of The Wilson Elementary School with a positive and beautiful space to enjoy. All in all, this was a unique project that would possibly have major and promising impacts.
Students will continue to work on their main idea/ supporting detail organizers while sharing with other classmates.
Creativity is greatly influenced by how acceptable and desirable it is seen by individuals who otherwise may settle for different priorities. Many educational facilities extend students concerns toward certainly important subjects such as math, english, language and social studies. Unfortunately, subjects that assist both individuality and creativity such as music or fine arts courses are often not given the attention they deserve. Readily available, but rarely taken seriously when compared to other subjects or extra curricular activities, fine arts becomes a less important study. Schools should create a good balance between academics and fine arts. Most projects that school boards take on limit themselves to standardized testing and ways of
Teaching using creative methods can help develop the whole child. It can make learning experiences more exciting, more relevant, create different contexts for learning, al...
Manzo, Kathleen K. "Districts and Partners Coordinate on Arts Education." Education Week. Gale, 18 June 2008. Web. 3 Apr. 2012.
Phonetic awareness has been proven to aid in our students written and reading acquisition. I would also try to incorporate reading instruction using my student’s primary language. I would like to implement activities such as writing in journals and drawing pictures to illustrate what the students are writing about. In doing this, I hope my students can write and also illustrate the story they are trying to communicate to me. I would also like to read stories with my students and ask them to make predictive statements about the stories. I would also like to incorporate centers into my classroom that will help my students play in literacy-enriched areas. Examples of these centers would be places like a school, an office, a grocery store or a restaurant. While the students are not in my classroom, I will send home activities that include parental involvement. I would encourage parents to communicate with their students using their journals. They can write entries back and forth to each other to communicate. The student could even draw a secret message to their parents and have their parent try and figure out sentences that correlates to the picture. I would also like to send home storybooks for the parents to read to their children. These storybooks would come with an activity sheet that the student would need to complete. On the activity sheet I would ask students to draw
Art is intended for all to enjoy and learn from. Through an art curriculum; phonics, mathematics, and readiness skills to name a few can be learned through an art curriculum. With this curriculum a teacher can adapt that centers to teach those with diverse abilities such as emotional and intellectual challenges, visual impairments, hearing impairments, and orthopedic impairments.
Each year, as a new group of students enter my classroom, I will encourage them to be expressive of their imaginations in their favorite subjects, whether it will be art, literature, math or music. We all have rules and regulations to follow, and each student will know that there is no exception in the school or the classroom. Another goal in my classroom will be to keep the students excited about learning, not to treat school as a game or a social event, but to encourage a unique and fun atmosphere to learn.
This article addresses how the internet and use of computers is in all aspects of our life directly or indirectly. The many ways technology can be used can help enhance the creativity in our children’s lives. As children participate more and more on technology, which now includes
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” -Pablo Picasso. This quote is pretty straightforward. It says how all children are artists and how they grow older are not an artist anymore. A child’s drawing can tell so much about what they are thinking and feeling about their surroundings. They see things differently from adults and teens because when they are drawing or doing some sort of art they are not told that it is a “bad picture” or what ever they are doing is “not right.” They don’t have a limit upon their thoughts and ideas, but when they grow up, they do. Starting from the first day of school they are taught about the wrong things and the right thing. As we grow older there are more classes that have right and wrong answers to a question like for example math. We learn to follow the steps, use the formula, and get the right answer but because of these classes we forget about the arts. If the arts are forgotten then student’s way of expressing what they feel is taken away. Which brings more pressure to students in classes like math, physics, geography, and etc. That is why schools should make arts classes mandatory because arts classes help students build their artistic and creative skills, makes them better learners, and encourages them to find other ways of expressing their thoughts.
Reading and writing are basic skills for Americans, and children learn them early. But while they learn how to read and write, these skills aren’t often connected to the emotional, curious, storytelling nature of children. They learn their letters and they read their textbooks and sometimes they learn to diagram sentences; they learn Western plot maps and the components of literature and the types of words. Sometimes they learn to hate reading. Often they learn that writing is for school. A horrifying amount of the time, they never learn to write for themselves. But every child is a storyteller, and writing creatively is an integral part of writing education. Though often overlooked in favor of traditional literacy, creative writing is a vital component of children’s education.