September Art Blog 2017
Welcome to the Bacich Art For Bears Program TK-4th grade! We are off to a fabulous start. During our first art lessons of the new school year, we established routines and rules and each one of our 645 students got to decorate their very own art journals. Each grade level had the opportunity to explore a grade-level appropriate art technique or activity. The Art Journal Through out the school year students will have the opportunity to use their Art Journals in a combination of sketching, note taking, and personal journal writing. Students reflect upon and evaluate their own learning. This allows students to place reading and writing in a context that is functional and personally relevant. One of the key lessons in our art program is that there are no mistakes in art. Besides being a means of recording, the journal is a safe place for the student to express his or her thoughts and ideas in writing and drawing that is not corrected by the teacher, givi...