My idea of Creative Arts is totally different from when I first started attending class. Although some of the elementary schools provide specialty classes for Art and Music, students can participate in more activities. Time is very valuable for teachers, but I learned in Creative Arts that the benefits outweigh the costs. There are many ways that the arts can be implemented into lessons and teaching. If you use arts as a part of the lesson, you are actually using time more wisely and effectively.
When I went to Field, I planned lessons for my 5th grade students. I found it easy to include arts in the activities and the students were appreciative of them. I think they will remember the lessons better because of the drama and visual arts activities that I included in them.
I plan to use the many forms of art when I become a teacher such as Drama, Creative Movement, Visual Arts, and Music. We have learned many ways to use picture books to integrate the arts. I have enjoyed the activities we participated in in class and I plan on using these ideas in my classroom. It will be beneficial to my students and they will be able to have fun while they learn.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Reflection #14
This week we created skits for vocabulary words. I really like this activity idea. It was really fun! We also reported and heard from other classmates about how field experience went. We discussed how we implemented art in our lessons and also how the teachers used it. It was really interesting and I could have listened all day to others' ideas.
Our teacher told us that she didn't do very many art activities in class, however she had them act out a read-a-play and she incorporates it in science. For instance in heredity, they colored butterflies so that they were camouflaged with items in the classroom. I think she implements art without her realizing that she is doing it. I think she associates art with drawing and arts and crafts projects.
It is easier than I thought it would be to implement arts into lesson plans. I loved seeing the students involved in our lessons. We used a painting for a primary source, a classroom impromptu debate, and some of the students sketched drawings in their Lewis and Clark journals we made them. They even loved the "Turkey Dance" I taught them! They really appreciated creative arts activities and because of this experience, I want to continue finding ways to implement the arts in my teaching.
Our teacher told us that she didn't do very many art activities in class, however she had them act out a read-a-play and she incorporates it in science. For instance in heredity, they colored butterflies so that they were camouflaged with items in the classroom. I think she implements art without her realizing that she is doing it. I think she associates art with drawing and arts and crafts projects.
It is easier than I thought it would be to implement arts into lesson plans. I loved seeing the students involved in our lessons. We used a painting for a primary source, a classroom impromptu debate, and some of the students sketched drawings in their Lewis and Clark journals we made them. They even loved the "Turkey Dance" I taught them! They really appreciated creative arts activities and because of this experience, I want to continue finding ways to implement the arts in my teaching.
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