PF Middle School Observation February 5
PF Middle School
Today I walked into the Middle School art space and the walls were filled with information about the elements of art. There was art vocabulary signs, example drawings, children's art projects, and more covering the walls to make it appear colorful, lively, informative, and playful. The lesson today was to draw the elements of art. The elements consisted of lines, texture, shape, space, color, form, and value. Children discussed how space can be positive or negative and how value can show light and dark contrast. The children were given a handout with a box for each of the art elements. They were given freedom to use whatever type of materials they wanted to fill in the box with a drawing that emphasized the given art element. I decided to engage with the children by drawing in my own art element handout. We discussed how we could draw texture and I told my table of 4 other students that I was going to draw a snake to display the scaly, rough texture of a snake. Whereas, several of the students at the table drew furry animals to display their textures. When students finished their work they were able to independently go over to a station in the room where they were able to take a picture and document their work.
I was surprised by how well behaved, respectful, and engaged the children were. This was my first experience in a middle school art classroom, and my prior experience has been with younger children; therefore, I was pleasantly surprised to see how children this age interact and engage in the art space. Children were openly engaging in art dialogue and sharing ideas or showing their art work to one another with out being encouraged by their teacher. They were interested in documenting their art work with the camera. I was curious where this documentation goes and how they are able to look back on their documentation. Do they have a website? Is it printed out and put in an album? Are they posted on the walls?
Today I walked into the Middle School art space and the walls were filled with information about the elements of art. There was art vocabulary signs, example drawings, children's art projects, and more covering the walls to make it appear colorful, lively, informative, and playful. The lesson today was to draw the elements of art. The elements consisted of lines, texture, shape, space, color, form, and value. Children discussed how space can be positive or negative and how value can show light and dark contrast. The children were given a handout with a box for each of the art elements. They were given freedom to use whatever type of materials they wanted to fill in the box with a drawing that emphasized the given art element. I decided to engage with the children by drawing in my own art element handout. We discussed how we could draw texture and I told my table of 4 other students that I was going to draw a snake to display the scaly, rough texture of a snake. Whereas, several of the students at the table drew furry animals to display their textures. When students finished their work they were able to independently go over to a station in the room where they were able to take a picture and document their work.
I was surprised by how well behaved, respectful, and engaged the children were. This was my first experience in a middle school art classroom, and my prior experience has been with younger children; therefore, I was pleasantly surprised to see how children this age interact and engage in the art space. Children were openly engaging in art dialogue and sharing ideas or showing their art work to one another with out being encouraged by their teacher. They were interested in documenting their art work with the camera. I was curious where this documentation goes and how they are able to look back on their documentation. Do they have a website? Is it printed out and put in an album? Are they posted on the walls?
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