Highlights of Fifth Grade Art
Art Students Grades 3-5
Student Development and the Visual Arts
Professor Judith M. Burton, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Children become increasingly curious and are learning to become good observers of their everyday worlds. Making art stimulates thoughtful inquiry and sharpens careful perception. Children are interested in capturing the details that make each living thing, event or place unique in itself and special to them personally. They discover that ideas can be interpreted in many different ways, and art making focuses the skills and imagination, observation and inventions in service of exploring and expressing new ways of thinking and feeling.
Student Development and the Visual Arts
Professor Judith M. Burton, Teacher's College, Columbia University
Children become increasingly curious and are learning to become good observers of their everyday worlds. Making art stimulates thoughtful inquiry and sharpens careful perception. Children are interested in capturing the details that make each living thing, event or place unique in itself and special to them personally. They discover that ideas can be interpreted in many different ways, and art making focuses the skills and imagination, observation and inventions in service of exploring and expressing new ways of thinking and feeling.
