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Cave Art Rocks at IDEAL SchoolPosted on: 2011-10-07How do you bring the dinosaur era into art? By turning the school's art studio into a cave.
That's just what Art teacher, Eileen Kozyra did at the IDEAL Elementary School. Draping the drawing tables with cloths that looked like cave walls, dimming the lights, giving students flashlights and crumpled brown paper that resembled rocks students stepped back in time and created their own cave art.
'The children were so excited to work on their art projects in this environment and their creativity was amazing,' said Mrs. Kozyra.
All of the cave art is on display in the art studio of the Dream Middle School, the sister school of IDEAL Elementary.
The IDEAL School and Dream Middle School are pioneers in the use of Multiple Intelligence Theory in the classroom. Their expertise in innovative education draws students from preschool through 8th grade throughout Palm Beach County, Florida. To find out more about the school please visit www.DreamIdeal.com or call (561) 791-2881.Website:www.dreamideal.comEmail:office@dreamideal.com -
Second graders get hands-on Social Studies lessonPosted on: 2011-10-05When Gerrianne Disney plans a Social Studies lesson she knows that talking about the concepts with her students is only partially effective. What she really wants them to do is experience the lesson in order to fully understand what they’re learning.
“For the past two weeks we’ve been studying about communities in class. It’s one thing to tell my students that a community is made up of a school, post office, grocery store, gas station and other businesses but it’s another thing for them to build a town based on the needs of people living there,” said Disney. “They really took the time to think about how to connect roads, intersections and even consider what businesses and services were important to include in their community.”
Second graders Adrien Araneo, Christopher Callaway and Ryan Stevens took on the important roles as city planners and helped their classmate ‘citizens’ lay out the streets, intersections and erect buildings using blocks and giant Legos®. Other students took on the roles of police officer to make sure classmates were following the rules, mailmen to deliver information to and from the IDEAL School office, and construction workers to do the necessary building.
Disney said, “The students aren’t going to remember the vocabulary from the lesson if all they do is memorize it. By creating a community of their own and fulfilling the roles of the people in that community they’re able to experience and understand the lessons and ideas in a meaninful way that will stay with them for a long time to come.”
The IDEAL School and Dream Middle School are pioneers in the use of Multiple Intelligence Theory in the classroom. Their expertise in innovative education draws students from preschool through 8th grade throughout Palm Beach County, Florida. To find out more about the school please visit www.DreamIdeal.com or call (561) 791-2881.
Website:www.dreamideal.comEmail:office@dreamideal.com
