PS6: Integrates the performing and visual arts within the curriculum and facilitates and encourages children's creative expression through a variety of media
Evidence 1: Photographs of preschoolers performing "Frozen"
Description: Upon arriving at school, children decide to create costumes and a stage to perform their new favorite movie, "Frozen".
Analysis: Through this activity children were able to strengthen problem solving skills as they worked together to determine who would play each character, who would use what for costumes, and as they determined the order of scenes. Children also explored print as they created programs for their presentation.
Evidence 2: Catalog of Art Media within the classroom
Description: This file lists all art materials available to children within the classroom.
Analysis: While learning about the Reggio Emilia approach to early education, I became fascinated with the idea of providing children with an atelier, a place where children can become masters of many different techniques, and where the adults can begin tounderstand the processes of how children learn. While being unable to provide all of the materials that one might find in the Diana School, our classroom atelier provides children a place to explore and begin mastery of certain artistic expression.
Evidence 3: Field Trip Permission Slip to the Flynn Theater
Description: Each school year the preschoolers accompany the Kindergarten through third grade classes to the Flynn Theater to participate in a performance.
Analysis: Our school wide trip to the theater provided students with many new learning opportunities. The preschoolers learned about transportation as many traveled by school bus for the very first time. We practiced theater etiquette as we sat quietly and clapped at appropriate times throughout the performance. Most importantly upon our return to school, the preschoolers began to take their favorite books and turn them into plays for the rest of their classmates.
