Art is all around us..

    Looking back and really thinking about art in elementary i found out that art is in dancing and art is all around us. Kids typically think that art is only done in art class. Teachers in my school incorporated many ways using creativity and expanding the child's mind with new ideas of describing a book with using an essay we would make a portrait to describe the book or make a mini book giving a summary of the story. In science we would create projects to describe a cell. Especially re creating the missions in 4th grade. As a child growing up i always gave the artwork part of the project to someone else to do it for me. Fortunately i finally putt effort into a project while in class that i never thought i would be able to accomplish. Art is not based on a grade, it is putting in your effort and thought to create something creative to describe your personality. I remember going on many vacations when i was little and i would take pictures of sculptures, paintings and signs. From the hotel having many pieces of artworks to downtown and seeing graffiti. It is all artwork. As a child though, it is not likely that most kids appreciate art like most adults/artist do. When i started scrap booking at a young age it gave me the patience when looking at others work to stop and noticed the small detail in the projects. Or when decorating a cake, the design of the cake and what i choose to create when it is a birthday verse just because. Art to me is something that i find by taking my visual vision and putting it to work. In my school teacher would take a book that a student finds interesting and something that relates to the theme of the month and she would have us make something out of it. It teaches children to go above and beyond just writing a simple essay by putting colors, shapes and descriptions behind the meaning.

     I believe learning is a form of art. There is so much a young child learns and processes through what Morgan had describe using a diagram of the brain. He states that the brain does not grow unless it is processed. The brain is designed and trained to only see one side, students who can take an object and make different shapes of it are students making something out of just one thing. When looking at a cloud formation in the sky it can appear very clearly to be a heart in the sky but to other the could possibly see it as a flower or the letter B. My favorite thing Morgan stated in the beginning is you do not have to be an artist to make art. Teachers associate the visual and the verbal through the process of art integration.

       Talking about the importance of teachers being a part of a students work and engaging the children Morgan tells that the benefits are enhanced by meaningful teachers. I believe that is true because my best teachers are the ones who put in just as much effort as us children did. He talks about how providing art integration is motivates the student to come to school. Kids want to engage and learn and make something out of it. I remember my sister, and still to this day loves to take book reports and paint a portrait out of the meaning and then write on it. When students use art through learning it challenges their brain to think out of the box. I really enjoyed Morgans talk because it proved you do not have to be an art teacher to teach art and it does not have to look perfect, it is a work in progress.