Children of all Ages that Are Home Schooled can Enhance Their Learning With the Additon of an Art Curriculum
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Home schooling your children? How much of your curriculum has art in it?
Including art in your daily lesson plans will ensure the best education for your kids
When I say good art I am not talking about the standard traditional arts and crafts that is done in so many preschool and kindergarten classrooms all over the world. If you are doing Kids Crafts then hopefully you are already doing crafts with your kids that does not make them into robots.
The reason for many kindergaten and elementary school teachers doing copycat crafts with kids,is simple. They just don’t understand the importance of real art for children.
But this can’t be what you want. Home schoolers are obviously parents that want more for their children
I find it impossible to believe that you would want your children following cookie cutter directiosn, turning your kids into robots, right?
What I’m really talking about here is not only good crafts for kids but real art that often gets lost in the shuffle.
That’s too bad because art adds such depth to any curriculum that it would be a crying shame as you are at home and are able to give such great activities to your children .
I have 5 wonderful reasons for you to include art in your curriculum aside from the fun it gives kids
1. Art will help build physical coordination- Art is good for both gross motor coordination AND fine motor coordination. Both motor skills like gross and fine motor developed through activities like drawing, painting, coloring and cutting.
2. Emotional development is addressed-. If a sibling is jealous of another, he can pound on the clay instead of his sibling. There are so many emotional issues that can be worked through art like deaths, robberies or even house fires
3. Intellectual development can be tied in- Children learn to make sense of their world as they use art to count, classify, sort, make their own decisions and learn to follow directions without doing cookie cutter art.
4. Creativity is tremedously affected-Of course children’s creativity takes a flying leap if they are allowed to do art that allows them to create at their own level, which allows them to be creative in more ways than one
5. Integrating curriculum happens naturally- And last but not least art in a home schooling curriculum can help integrate the curriculum and help them learn. By adding art into the childrren’s curriculum at home and accessing their five senses, the more their curriculum will stay with them for life.
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