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Some of this information was a great review of the benefits of allowing creativity in the classroom. My pre-K students love making their own creations. Reading about how beneficial using art can be helps me to want to both use planned and unplanned projects, especially to teach social emotional skills, such as working together in groups and set up and clean up. For my class, writing about how art makes them feel wouldn’t necessarily work, but talking about their feelings towards a piece of art might teach new words, like “calm” or “scattered”.
Children need many opportunities to use both fine and gross motor skills every day. When you chose to present many forms of art such as painting, sculpting and molding, cutting and gluing, and free art, you are encouraging these students to use new muscle groups.
Some children do not learn as the majority of students learn, either by visual or audio means. These students must use their bodies in order to make sense of information given to them. This could be in the form of a physical project or even a musical/dance form of expression. In my class, we try to use many ways to demonstrate learning. The curriculum we use has suggestions for art or music activities. We have found that most students will engage better when they are able to create something of their own. Reading these articles reinforced my commitment to continue to add these important learning activities to each day’s lessons.
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