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After reading and watching these resourse, the things that spoke to me most were:
-Visual literacy is the ability to find meaning in imagery.
-There are degrees of visual literacy based on the child's age and developmental stage.
-Art museum guides have noticed that many people have had significantly limited exposure to the arts based upon conversations they've had and what they've seen when families are in the art museums.
-Art instruction at the early ages needs much attention.
-Kids want to understand everything they are looking at and even at the baby stage they are using their eyes to take the world "in".
The ideas that these sources gave me are:
-As a homeschooling mom, I plan to integrate the arts even more. My daughters are in first grade and PreK, and they LOVE anytime we do anything connected to the arts. I feel I integrate art into my lessons quite a bit, but as I was reflecting, I don't as much in social studies or spanish teaching. So, I now plan to connect the arts with those more this year. An example of social studies, would be to dress up in the clothes of the culture we are studying. In Spanish, as they are learning new words, they could write them and then draw a picture to go with it. Like when they are learning the names for foods, they could write the word and then draw the picture of that food and make a spanish menu. I'm looking forward to using these new ideas!
How do you integrate arts into your curriculum?
-Currently, as I'm teaching my daughters we use music a lot! My girls also enjoy free-draw time a lot. I have art books for them to look for and use. It's fun to see them enjoy the arts on their own, without me directing them. As for integration, we use songs to help us memorize scripture verses, the 50 states, how to form numbers when writing them, along with many others. I also use a book called Language Lessons for Today. Yesterday the girls discussed a picture with two squirrels and bird. We talked about what they saw and thought about it. I asked some questions to get them thinking in a different way. For math, we use playdoh to shape numbers or help to solve addition and subtraction problems. In writing, they illustrate their writing. For reading, sometimes I will have them read a sentence and then to show comprehension, they draw what they just read. example: The bird flew to the top of the tree. (Then they would draw that.) Another example, was yesterday at the end of our morning devotional, there was a song rewritten to the tune of Mulberry Bush that reinforced the point. The girls loved singing it!
Other thoughts:
-When I taught second grade for six years in the public school system, I wish I would have collaborated with our music teacher. I didn't do this at all. Though I integrated arts into my classroom, I wish we would have connected more between our two rooms.
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