Reflection #13

WHAT?: This week was our last two days in field. I cannot believe it is already over. I was really sad about leaving the classroom. Since my partner and I taught last week this week we just mainly observed and helped our cooperating teacher where she asked us to. We did not see hardly any art integrated into the classroom at all this week.

SO WHAT?: I feel like it is so important to integrate the arts into the classroom any chance we get. I feel like this classroom did not get tons of art integration; however, when we taught last week we did 3 art integrated lessons which the children loved and had so much fun with. It was so awesome to see the children's creativity. The only thing we saw this week was when the children were learning math they were drawing pictures to help them solve the problems. It was really neat to see the children all use different pictures in order to help them with them math problems. Children are so creative when it comes to art. It is their chance to open up and really let their personality shine through if they want to. It is so important for the children to be able to express their creativity with art once in awhile. This helps the children with their comprehension and learning levels.

NOW WHAT?: I know that from this experience and really seeing how much children enjoy and NEED art integration that I will integrate as much art into my classroom as possible. I think it is so important for the children to be able to express their personalities through their creativity. It was so neat to see the children's different artworks and to hear their stories behind why they did what they did. The same goes for their math lesson even. I thought it was so neat that they could draw pictures to help them represent the problems. I think for some of the children this really helped the math unit CLICK for them, and that was so awesome to observe. I think that some children need this kind of representation. I have learned so much throughout this field experience, and one main important thing is that art really is so important to integrate in the classroom. It is very important that children get the exposure to these types of lessons and activities. I believe that it really does help out their learning skills, and I know that as a teacher I will integrate art into my classroom as much as possible.