Click this Young At Art masthead to see an example of sixth grade art newsletter published for paents and others at Westview Elementary. Click here for the Honeyville Elementary third grade. These students are learning many very important skills and art concepts. The teacher is nurturing their natural talents. They are learning how to learn how to draw.
Students learn to make choices with the viewfinder.
They are instructed to look for and make note of the relationships between the positive and negative areas. By making these informed choices, they are learning the principles of design and composition. They are developing an understanding of beauty. They are learning to observe the line contours of the milkweed pod edges. They are instructed to draw these lines without looking at their papers while their pencils move, but to carefully and intently study the line of the observed object as they draw it.