Mrs. Lennon
Lessons Your Child Learns in The Art Room
- · The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Important problem solving skills such as comparing and contrasting are developed.
- · Students learn that problems can have more than one solution and and that questions can have more than one answer. Art loves creative solutions!
- · The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. Students learn to expand their understanding and awareness of the world around them.
- · Students learn to adapt their solutions to a problem as other possibilities are discovered and explored.
- · Art is its own language. Students learn that images can often express what cannot be said.
- · It’s the details that count! Small differences can have large effects.
- · Each medium has unique characteristics, which influence the outcome of the art.