Source: Activities Guide: Enhancing & Practicing Executive Function Skills
Tag: kids
How to Teach Art to Kids, According to Mark Rothko
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-teach-art-kids-mark-rothko
Lesson #1: Show your students that art is a universal form of expression, as elemental as speaking or singing
Lesson #2: Beware of suppressing a child’s creativity with academic training
Lesson #3: Stage exhibitions of your students’ works to encourage their self-confidence
Lesson #4: Introduce art history with modern art (not the Old Masters)
Lesson #5: Work to cultivate creative thinkers, not professional artists
Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children From Darkness | Time
http://time.com/5093669/why-we-shouldnt-shield-children-from-darkness/
I can’t think of a safer place to explore complex emotions for the first time than inside the pages of a book, while sitting in the lap of a loved one.
Out Came the Girls | VQR Online
Be The Change : NPR
20 New Classics Every Child Should Own | Jordan B. Nielsen
Strong Families | eCards
I Make Up Worlds – The Problem with ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
Rediscovered art by residential-school pupils paints a portrait of survival
Rediscovered art by residential-school pupils paints a portrait of survival. “This weekend will see the artwork returned in a repatriation ceremony in Port Alberni that will elevate the children’s art to the level of cultural artifacts.”
