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Elementary Art

Teachers:
Mrs. Jones
Mrs. Papandrea

The Elementary Art Program enriches the entire elementary curriculum. There are four components that create a quality program. They are: Aesthetic Perception, Art Criticism, Art History and Culture and Art Production and Creative Expression. These four components will be part of our art classes and will provide a strong connection to curriculum integration. At each grade level, students will:

  • Practice problem solving and critical thinking.
  • Learn about history and culture through art.
  • Learning to use senses more effectively to explore the world.
  • Use both verbal and nonverbal methods to express abstract ideas and emotions.
  • Learn to trust and develop creative intelligence.
  • Learn concepts and techniques that will give them control of the visual images they produce.
  • Learn to identify aesthetic qualities in a variety of artwork and in the environment.
  • Learn the language of visual art so that they have a precise vocabulary in which to express their ideas.
Student artwork of an eye with blue,teal and yellow. student artwork of a hand with a rainbow overlapping it abstract student artwork showing a face in the different colors abstract geometric student artwork with colorful hexagons and a tree

The Importance of Art in Child Development By Grace Hwang Lynch

For a great article on the importance of the arts, please read the article:

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-importance-of-art-in-child-development/