What Is Art To Me?

The Third Grade Students Response To The Question 

"Why I Love Art"

I use this assessment exercise as an informal way to observe whether or not the students are able to reflect and articulate in an authentic way, what they are learning in art. Their answers may surprise you. 

It is also a way for me to document that the students are their developing a personal voice in visual art expression. I find it interesting that some of the students used text as an artistic images. An example below where a student uses the term “flowing array of colors” in a visually expressive way is a great example.

I couldn’t resist adding this one. Even though she did not write the question that was posed to her.
 It isn’t very often we hear how we are doing as teachers from the students.

 Vocabulary 

This idea of using words or text as art to understand the meaning stems from the way we write our vocabulary words. For example, one of our vocabulary words last month was Pattern.

So, the student assigned to write the word for our wall not only wrote the word; he designed a pattern inside the letters to demonstrate the meaning in place of writing the definition following the word the standard way.

 as a pattern.

               using primary colors.