THE ART OF ART USING FINE ART TO

THE ART OF ART: USING FINE ART TO PROMOTE EARLY LEARNING Nurturing High-Quality Early Learning and Leadership Across the Pre-K-3 Continuum Institute Atlanta, Georgia Thursday, September 28, 2017 Jim Squires Senior Fellow Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes National Institute for Early Education Research

What attracts us to art?

Art for Teaching and Learning: What Can Children Learn from Fine Art? Snap the Whip Winslow Homer, 1872

What Questions Would You Ask to Support Learning? School’s Out Allan Rohan Crite, 1936

Starry Night Over the Rhone Vincent van Gogh, 1888

The Scream Edvard Munch, 1893

Shotgun, Third Ward #1 John Biggers, 1966

First Sunday Gilbert Young

The Voyage of Life, Childhood Thomas Cole, 1839

Chinese Horse, Bronze

Stars of Everything Thornton Dial, 2004

What title would you give this sculpture and why?

GELDS SED 4 - The child will develop relationships and social skills with adults. SED 5 - The child will develop relationships and social skills with peers. APL 2 - The child will demonstrate interest and curiosity. CLL 2 - The child will acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories, and/or books. CLL 4 - The child will use increasingly complex spoken language. CD-MA 2 - The child will manipulate, compare, describe relationships, and solve problems using number and quantity. CD-SS 1 - The child will demonstrate understanding of his/her family and an emerging awareness of their own culture and ethnicity. CD-SS 2 - The child will demonstrate an understanding of his/her community and an emerging awareness of other's culture and ethnicity. CD-SS 3 - The child will demonstrate an awareness of geography in his/her community. CD-SS 5 - The child will understand the passage of time and how events are related. CD-CR 2 - The child will create and explore visual art forms to develop artistic expression. CD-CP 2 - The child will use prior knowledge to build new knowledge.

Building Your Curriculum

Jim Squires 1998 “What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever. ” Mary Jo Putney, American novelist