Welcome!
Here at the West School, we artists are busy creating! Many of the art concepts and skills are revisited at each grade level. This approach allows the students to work within familiar art concepts, art elements and/or art mediums at more sophisticated levels. Students are also introduced to a variety of famous artists through books, online images, videos, and many prints. We make connections to art history as well as how the art concepts utilized by this specific artist relates to our work in class. Students will also be able to make connections to what they are learning in their classrooms within the art lessons.
Experience with art and the creative process provides students with a sense of accomplishment and pride. Not only are students learning the basics and fundamentals of art, but they are also gaining valuable experiences through thoughtful and imaginative explorations...which I LOVE to be a part of!
**IMPORTANT DATES**
Fine Arts Night (Art Show & Grade 4 & 5 Concerts)
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 @ 6:30pm
Link to the West Elementary School Site
http://west.stoughtonschools.org/
Link to the Stoughton Public School Site
http://www.stoughtonschools.org/
Link to the Stoughton Public School Fine Arts Department
http://www.spsfinearts.org
Here at the West School, we artists are busy creating! Many of the art concepts and skills are revisited at each grade level. This approach allows the students to work within familiar art concepts, art elements and/or art mediums at more sophisticated levels. Students are also introduced to a variety of famous artists through books, online images, videos, and many prints. We make connections to art history as well as how the art concepts utilized by this specific artist relates to our work in class. Students will also be able to make connections to what they are learning in their classrooms within the art lessons.
Experience with art and the creative process provides students with a sense of accomplishment and pride. Not only are students learning the basics and fundamentals of art, but they are also gaining valuable experiences through thoughtful and imaginative explorations...which I LOVE to be a part of!
**IMPORTANT DATES**
Fine Arts Night (Art Show & Grade 4 & 5 Concerts)
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 @ 6:30pm
Link to the West Elementary School Site
http://west.stoughtonschools.org/
Link to the Stoughton Public School Site
http://www.stoughtonschools.org/
Link to the Stoughton Public School Fine Arts Department
http://www.spsfinearts.org
The Benefits associated with children learning art while they are young.
An Article from the Museum of Children’s Art, in Oakland California
1. Art stimulates both sides of the brain.
2. 33% of kids are visual learners.
3. There are studies that show that kids, who make art, read better and get better grades in science and mathematics.
4. Kids learn by using their senses and art is ideal in this process.
5. Kids need a place to express themselves at school.
6. Art promotes self-esteem.
7. Art encourages kids to give more attention to the physical space that surrounds them.
8. Art develops hand eye coordination.
9. Art stimulates perception.
10. Art teaches to think openly. It represents a culture of questioners more than a culture of responders.
11. Art teaches that there is more than one solution for a problem.
12. Art teaches kids to think creatively to solve problems.
13. Kids can share and reflect on their work of art and learn something about the world they’re in.
14. When art is integrated with the other subjects in the curriculum, kids commit more to the learning process.
15. In the process of doing art, the child is exposed to different possibilities, to discover and to freedom, this way they avoid falling into the control and predictability of the conventional education in the United States of today.
16. Art nourishes the human soul.
17. Art brings the culture resources of the community into the classroom.
18. Art involves parents and others in the school, inviting them to participate as volunteers in diverse activities.
19. Art provides a common ground across racial stereotypes, barriers and prejudices.
20. Art is valuable all by itself.
2. 33% of kids are visual learners.
3. There are studies that show that kids, who make art, read better and get better grades in science and mathematics.
4. Kids learn by using their senses and art is ideal in this process.
5. Kids need a place to express themselves at school.
6. Art promotes self-esteem.
7. Art encourages kids to give more attention to the physical space that surrounds them.
8. Art develops hand eye coordination.
9. Art stimulates perception.
10. Art teaches to think openly. It represents a culture of questioners more than a culture of responders.
11. Art teaches that there is more than one solution for a problem.
12. Art teaches kids to think creatively to solve problems.
13. Kids can share and reflect on their work of art and learn something about the world they’re in.
14. When art is integrated with the other subjects in the curriculum, kids commit more to the learning process.
15. In the process of doing art, the child is exposed to different possibilities, to discover and to freedom, this way they avoid falling into the control and predictability of the conventional education in the United States of today.
16. Art nourishes the human soul.
17. Art brings the culture resources of the community into the classroom.
18. Art involves parents and others in the school, inviting them to participate as volunteers in diverse activities.
19. Art provides a common ground across racial stereotypes, barriers and prejudices.
20. Art is valuable all by itself.