Title: Pre-K Creativity Description: Pre-K Creativity is a weekly program that will mix a traditional preschool story time with an art project. This program will be targeted to preschool aged children and their caretakers. Objectives: • To provide a literary program to preschool aged children. • The children will have the opportunity to interact with other children their own age. • The program will create on experience were the caregiver and the child can create a work of art together. Program Outline: Week One: Paint Opener: “Put your hands up high” opening song from Jbrary. Jbrary. (2014, May 10). Put Your Hands Up High: Storytime Song. Retrieved October 31, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBjey7_GMA Books: Rosenstock, Barb, and GrandPré Mary. The noisy paint box: the colors and sounds of Kandinsky’s abstract art. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. This book tells the story of artist Vasya Kandisnsky. Through illustrations and a simple story this book tells how Kandinsky went from a very formal Russian upbringing to becoming a famous abstract artist. …show more content…
(2005). I Ain't Gonna paint no more! New York, NY: Harcourt, Inc. This book is about a little boy who paints were taken away after painting the walls. He then sneaks his paints out of the hiding place and paints himself. Magnet Board: Carle, E. (2013). The artist who painted a blue horse. London: Puffin Books. Create a magnet board by drawing the animals in the story. Using the props tell the story of the artist who painted animals any color he chose.
Creative learning is about how children are actively involved in their own learning and ability to make choices and decisions. This can be achieved through providing a creative environment allowing exploration through play and praising creative efforts. Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to
Children’s creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
Cognition is the way people take in information and combine it while intelligence is the way people take in
You as parents (including children) can see how we have activities targeting their creativity with a lot of open end material and natural nature’s material through intentional teaching; children are given open end material to come up with their own imagination and develop new ideas. Our activities are spread over the whole day, giving children time to think and enjoy the activity. They are encouraged
The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against
The basic philosophy of the Creative Curriculum is the teachers must use a variety of strategies to meet children’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language developmental needs (Gestwicki, 2011, p. 117). Any of the five activities could be used in the Creative Curriculum. The dot cards could be placed in the several centers. The teacher could use the line ‘em up activity to assess the children in their cognitive development area. The pros in Creative Curriculum are it is a concept based on the background of research and theory, active roles of children busy at play and exploration, emphasis on quality of materials and environmental arrangements, focus on observations and assessments, and the importance placed on relationships with family between teachers and children Gestwicki, 2011, p. 117).
Creativity is about risk taking and making connections, allowing children to explore and express themselves through a variety of media or materials including, dance, music, making things, drawing, painting and make believe and to make new things emerge as a result. Being creative is strongly linked to play and can emerge through a
Last in his lifelong series of Compositions, this work is the culmination of Kandinsky's investigation into the purity of form and expression through nonrepresentational painting. Executed in France, this monumental painting relies upon a black background to heighten the visual impact of the brightly colored undulating forms in the foreground. The undulating planes of color call to mind microscopic organisms, but also express the inner emotional and spiritual feelings Kandinsky experienced near the end of his life. The uplifting organization of forms in contrast with the harsh edges and black background illustrates the harmony and tension present throughout the universe, as well as the rise and fall of the cycle of life. The presence of the
Children by nature are curious, innovative, explorative and experimental. They tend to see the world differently with endless possibilities and opportunities. They are less hesitant to try new ideas and are also experts in expressing themselves in the form of art. In short, children are creative by birth. Since the early childhood setting is a hub for fostering these creative minds, expanding horizons, and creating future geniuses, creativity in early childhood development and curriculum provision holds utmost importance. As a result, creativity is important for Early Childhood development and therefore, creative experiences should be incorporated within the curriculum. This will be discussed in relation to current perspectives within the role and importance of creativity in Early Childhood education.
When I first saw this painting I knew it was the one I wanted to do for my formal analysis paper because of how abstract and unique the piece was. This painting can be taken in so many different ways, which is one thing I love about abstract art; not everyone is going to see the same thing. It fits into this class because it was from 1912, not from any recent time period. Kandinsky’s painting shows that since before 1912 people often times judge others, or objects, from their appearance rather than their inner
A smart man said “Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same standing.” (Ken Robinson-“Do schools kill creativity?”). There are multiple studies on how creativity helps improve a student’s mind. Project based learning is a huge creative booster for students. A math teacher from California uses projects to do math instead of using the text book. From doing this, she’s had more students pass her class then from when she was teaching straight from the text books. Instead of having standardized tests, using more creative techniques for students to enjoy the learning they’ve done and for them to show the higher officials what the students are learning. Creativity is the process of turning real world problems into an understanding by extending the minds cognitive processes. In Alabama, kindergartners are studying different ways to be creative.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist, whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level, Kandinsky's maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work, with an impressionistic flair, to his later work, which was pure abstraction, Kandinsky was an innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the fantasy pastime of the twentieth century.
The term creativity is used for the purpose of describing the ability that is concerned with the process of creating something new or valuable. This ability allows a person to surpass the rules, practices, methods, forms or similar kind of activities that the traditional society may be performing at that time. Creativity is one of the most important things that have allowed the people of the society to move forward and urge for development. All the development that has been made in various aspects of human life can be directly connected with the creativity. All the industry leaders of the world have secured this place because of the level of creativity and innovation that they showed. They used this creativity for creating something new that has allowed them to develop completely new methods for this purpose.
During the 1860‘s, Wassily Kandinsky grew up in Moscow, Russia and would someday be known as the one who marked the pivotal point in abstract modern art. During young adulthood, Kandinsky studied law at the University of Moscow and became a law professor until the age of thirty. He had always been interested in fine art, however his parents pushed him to pursue a career that would make him an elite during his time. From 1896 to 1900, Kandinsky studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany where “he would gain the skills and knowledge of entering the art profession.” 1 The turning point in his artistic career was when he “[traveled] extensively with Munter in the Netherlands, Tunisia, Italy and Germany, before settling in Paris for