Artie's Lair

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

outside of school crochet club!

For all my crochet kiddos, I wanted to share an opportunity to crochet over break.
At Wool & Co. in St. Charles every Saturday at 10am there is a kids crochet club offered for $10. More information is available on the website Wool and Co. Kids Club
Have fun!

Monday, October 1, 2012

Artsonia

Many of you have received a permission slip for Artsonia. This site is a wonderful way to display our talented students' works and share them with family and friends near and far. This helps to build pride in the students and their work. Here is a link to our school's museum. http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=43809

I hope you enjoy seeing and sharing the art!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Welcome Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss McShea and all the friends in the art room are so excited for the new year! Please stop in to say hello!

Some items that are always needed in the art room are:
- baby wipes
- tissues
- paper towels
- old buttons
- records
- and any odds and ends that you think we might used!

Thanks so much for reading the blog and good luck in the new school year!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Right hand crochet

Crocheting for left handed

10 Lesson the Arts Teach

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, itis judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solutionand that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solvingpurposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

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