Art class

List at least 3 questions you can ask yourself while observing a child.

Answer explanation

Are the materials/tools appropriate in size/ developmental level or do I need to change something?

What questions should I ask to encourage the child to reflect on their art?

How can I maintain interest or how can I make a specific thing more interesting?

Which question is better to ask/say?

• What is this picture of?

• What did you enjoy about doing this?

• That's pretty!

• Can you tell me about your picture?

Answer explanation

These questions encourage the children to talk about their works without felling the pressure to describe something specific.

How can you support children during art activity?

• Describe what you see

• Ask open-ended questions

• Ask about the process

• Tell what you think their art represents

The name of the first phase/area of guiding children's viewing of art.

It includes questions like:

"Tell me everything you see on this painting." or "Close your eyes and tell me everything you remember seeing in the picture."

The name of the second phase/area of guiding children's viewing of art.

It includes questions like:

"Are the colours in this painting friendly?" or "Does one of the shapes in this scuplture seems stronger than the others?"

The name of the third phase/area of guiding children's viewing of art.

It includes questions like:

"How does the painting you made make you feel when you look at it now?" or "What do you think the artist was thinking about while painting this picture?"

The name of the fourth and last phase/area of guiding children's viewing of art.

It includes questions like:

"Would you like to have this painting hanging in our classroom?" or "Which of the drawings you made today do you like the best?"

List at least 3 curriculum areas AND ideas with them which you can connect to Art

Answer explanation

Music: having the children draw how the music makes them feel

Cooking: Vegetable dyes (beet or onion skins, Printing tools (potato or turnips), demonstarting foods native to other countires

Sand and water-play: Bubble blowing with different things for different sized bubbles, making constructions from sand

Outdoor: gives the children inspiration, paint fence with water

Classroom decoration: display their works and convey the message that their works are important

Parents are aware of the areas art experience promotes. (soico-emotional, cognitive, physical..)

• True

• False

Having a workshop on children's art with the parents is an useful way to capture their support. What should you include in the workshop and what not?

• Selecting one type of art media to try

• Interact with the parents the same way you do with the children ex.: comment on the process

• Once they are done, ask them how they felt using the materials

• Avoid follow-up discussions on the value of children's art