Reflection 13

I have seen first hand that integrating arts into teaching makes it more fun, memorable, and helps the students learn the material better.

I have seen art integrated into just about every core subject. I have also seen the students just go to an art class. Both of these are fun for the students and effective in helping them grow in their studies.

In my field experience my cooperating teacher inegrated art into persuasive writing. The students had to choose to write about whether or not their teacher should eat turkey (Frank) at Thanksgiving, or not. Then they wrote their persuasive letter to her and they were able to draw a turkey named Frank to be hung out on their bulletin board. They also did art while learning about heredity. Within this section the class each got a butterfly and had to draw on it so that it would be camouflauged somewhere in the room. The students loved coloring their butterfly then putting it where it would blend in. Later on in the unit they had another teacher come in that they called birdzilla. Birdzilla had to go around the room and try to find everyone's butterflies. The kids really like having art integrated into their core subjects.

Once a week the students also go to an art class for 40 minutes. They learned about texture one week when i was their. It was really cool seeing them learn about something that we did in our class. The kids do love art and respond great to it!