Reflect on what you have learned about visual arts elements and principles, analyzing the art of professional artists, and using children's picture book illustrators as an entrance to both understanding and making art. Please complete this reflection after we have had all of the student presentations in class.
I really liked our section on visual arts. My mom has always been into card making and visual art things like that, and I would do it with her here and there, but I never truly discovered the joy in doing visual art until I was in College. I think that students can benefit a lot from being able to express themselves through visual art. It's good to know that there are so many different artistic ways to express ourselves. One person may do it one way, and another person another way, but neither is wrong, just different. I think the more opportunities we give our students to be able to express themselves in all different ways the more likely they will find some way that they can feel confident expressing themselves.
I also really liked being able to learn all the variety of ways that different popular children's book illustrators express their stories through art. I learned so much from them and I think the students would benefit a lot from learning about the different children's books illustrators as well. I we can so easily over generalize what is considered right or beautiful, but when we step back and see all the different ways that a story can be expressed through art, it opens up our creative abilities and makes it so we can feel more open and free to express art in our individual way.
Overall I really enjoy visual arts and I think it is a great way for students to be able to learn and create!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Field Reflection
Field was a such a great experience. We did two lessons that specifically focused on the Arts and other lessons where the arts were integrated. The students really enjoyed them. We were in a classroom that had a very traditional way of learning, a lot of lectures, and even more work sheets.
Our first lesson we did was to help them wrap up their Colonial section in Social Studies. We read a childrens book about the colonial peoples trek to a new land and the work it took to make this their home. We then took several of the pages that we felt had the best potential to pull movement from, and helped the students portray different parts of the book. It was really fun to see them explore social studies and dance in a different way then they ever had before!
The next lesson that was focused on Arts was our theatre lesson we did the last day. The part that I took charge of was having them do a couple warm up circle games. First we played energy ball. This was really fun for them because its a simple but really fun activity. When a student would get really into the game and have a lot of energy with catching and throwing the energy ball we would stop and focus on why we liked that, and how that would be important in theatre.
The next game we played was catch the leader. This is the game were everyone is following a leader doing hand motions and such, and there is a person who doesn't know who the leader is and has to guess. This was really fun because they liked trying to stump someone, and all students were able to actively participate. This game had a lot of things that we could learn from it and apply to actual theatre. That was nice because not only were they having fun but they were able to use higher order thinking by having to analyze this activity and tie it theatre as a whole.
It was so fun to be able to do these activities and see how excited the students would get about learning the same old subject in a new and interactive way. I think when I get my own classroom the arts is something I really want to focus on, and make a part of my students common learning.
Our first lesson we did was to help them wrap up their Colonial section in Social Studies. We read a childrens book about the colonial peoples trek to a new land and the work it took to make this their home. We then took several of the pages that we felt had the best potential to pull movement from, and helped the students portray different parts of the book. It was really fun to see them explore social studies and dance in a different way then they ever had before!
The next lesson that was focused on Arts was our theatre lesson we did the last day. The part that I took charge of was having them do a couple warm up circle games. First we played energy ball. This was really fun for them because its a simple but really fun activity. When a student would get really into the game and have a lot of energy with catching and throwing the energy ball we would stop and focus on why we liked that, and how that would be important in theatre.
The next game we played was catch the leader. This is the game were everyone is following a leader doing hand motions and such, and there is a person who doesn't know who the leader is and has to guess. This was really fun because they liked trying to stump someone, and all students were able to actively participate. This game had a lot of things that we could learn from it and apply to actual theatre. That was nice because not only were they having fun but they were able to use higher order thinking by having to analyze this activity and tie it theatre as a whole.
It was so fun to be able to do these activities and see how excited the students would get about learning the same old subject in a new and interactive way. I think when I get my own classroom the arts is something I really want to focus on, and make a part of my students common learning.
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