Friday, August 10, 2007

Art class

one thing i'm really excited about w/the new curriculum I'm using, is a book called, "Drawing With Children" It's a kind of art curriculum that was designed for young kids. In it, the author talks about research that's been done that show that children who learn art in school, actually end up doing better in math & language arts than kids who don't. She's broken down drawing into 5 basic shapes, and says that just like you can learn to read music, you cam learn to draw. Very interesting. I think it'll be fun. :)

4 comments:

Tonya said...

I'm excited to hear how you like My Father's World. I've heard good things about it. I've seen the art book before too. You should have fun!

~just me~ said...

we'll see!

i'm sure i've asked before, but what are you using this year?

Tonya said...

Sonlight and a hodge-podge of other stuff. Story of the World, Math-U-See, Easy Grammar, Latin for Children, First Language Lessons, Sequential Spelling and probably other stuff that I can't think of right now! We started school today and it went HORRIBLY. The girls were great, but the boys were the exact opposite. My friend told me to forget today happened and pretend that tomorrow is our first day. I may have to take her advice!!! :-)

~just me~ said...

eek! so sorry. i think that's great advice...or maybe this whole week could be a practice week. :)