December 20, 2010
MS/HS Art Room
Members present: Ronda, Heidi, Andrew, Bev, Emily, and Kara (visitor from West Marshall)
Members absent: None
Blogger: Ronda
Timekeeper: Bev
Check Heidi's comment on the last meeting's notes concerning information about the AEA Read Aloud webinar.
Ronda has received word from Mr. VanderPol concerning our request for stipend pay for outside the contract day to attend the webinar..."Will check with SIT team and see if we will be able to do this. Might be a really good thing."
We need to do a better job of replying to meeting posts about what we are doing in our classrooms in regard to reading. :-)
All of our GC bands have been sight reading and are in the early stages of learning their new concert set. As part of this, their music reading skills are utilized more thoroughly than during other times of the year. Also, program notes are read in class and discussed. As the course progresses, students will attend to different levels of reading, from initial notes and rhythms to more advanced musical concepts.
ReplyDeleteIn Fundamentals of Art class, we have been regularly reading chapters in a very old textbook "The Visual Experience" regarding the element of art or principle of design that we are currently studying. Even though the text is old, it has very accurate information. In conjunction with our reading from the textbook, I have created an online Study Wiz "test" that the students work with as they read as a study guide. Students must score 70% or higher to "pass" the "test." They retake the "test" until they score 70% or higher. I help students with strategies to improve their score if they need to retake the "test." The students seem to be getting better at scoring 70% or higher the first time now that they have some strategies under their belt.
ReplyDeleteI continue to have 2nd graders write responses to their art work on the back of their completed art pieces. Students continue to read these responses to me and receive assistance with spelling.
ReplyDeleteI have also started having 5th graders respond to their art work in the same manner including vocabulary that is key to the lesson covered.
I continue to read stories to younger students that go along with the lessons.