November 5, 2015 Art

Today I went and observed in the Art Classroom. The class was a 4th grade class and they were finishing up their Veteran's Day projects.  Most of them were done so the rest got to free draw.  I like the idea of free draw.  The teacher has binders with the teach me to draw books in them and the students are always pulling them out.  I also like to just walk around and look at what the students who don't pull one of those books out are drawing and I was very impressed.  Some were free handing animals and bugs from their own memory and making them their own.  Others were creating almost tye-dye looking patterns with markers.  I also got to witness a very special drawing that I must say I was greatly impressed came from a 4th grader.  The picture started off as just a simple picture of flowers in a sky, however, then the little girl put words on her paper and it changed how I viewed the picture.   The more words that she put on the more impressed I became.  "Every flower is different, no one flower is alike."  "Everyone is perfect just how they are." These were things that were written on her paper, and I thought it was amazing because I didn't expect it to come from a 4th grader and I just hope as she moves through her school life she never loses sight of that.  I do have some things I did not like about the class and that was how the teacher manage her students.  Her students had gotten a tad noisy a couple of times and yes after the first time they should have followed the rules however, the students were talking about their art and not just nonsense.  I feel that the classroom wasn't as loud as the teacher made it out to seem.  Since the students were free drawing and sense most of them were finished with the projects I feel that the amount of talking was completely acceptable.  These poor students are supposed to be sitting in a classroom quite for most of the day and for an hour I think the teacher could of let the talk with their tables and neighbors because it was an off day and they didn't have something they needed to get done.