Promoting Creativity & Aesthetics
One of the easiest ways to promote creativity in the early learning environment is to plan for student ____ and ___.
What is student choice and student voice?
Drawing, painting, cutting and pasting help to develop these in young children.
What are fine motor skills?
The outdoor learning environment can foster skills of observing, questioning, discovery and inquiry. These skills are associated with this content area.
What is science?
Musical experiences offer unique possibilities to expand and extend ____ for young children.
What is vocabulary?
These experiences in the early childhood environment should incorporate healthy, balanced items that avoid allergies.
What are creative food experiences?
Providing daily opportunities for this is essential in early childhood.
What is play and/or communication?
Give an example of an appropriate material for creating 3D art.
What is: playdough, clay, cardboard, foam, crafting materials such as pipe cleaners?
Sensory play with items such as measuring tools, building blocks and shape toys are good for building these skills in young children.
What are math skills?
Participation in these activities help children to understand their bodies, concentrate, gather perception of their senses and aids in the overall growth of children's mental, social, physical and emotional skill development.
What are creative movement activities?
Characteristics of this include fluidity, child-driven ideas, imagination and general immersion in the activity.
What is play?
What if... and How many ways.... are examples of this type of question.
What is extended thinking?
Give an example of an appropriate material for creating 2D art AND how it could be used.
Ex: What are safety scissors and fabric scraps to create a collage?
Give an example of a creative activity that can build language skills in young children.
What is: story-telling, word art, charades, guessing/describing games, feeling/describing games, name games?
Describe dramatic play.
What is: consideration of language availability, ability to work independently, technical skills required, representations of real-world objects and the like?
Developmentally appropriate curriculum for this age group must include curriculum and materials that keep children _____.
What is active (physically and mentally)?
Lowenfeld's Stages of Artistic Development describe this.
What is how a child's drawing style and subjects changes over time?
Give one example of a developmentally appropriate piece to a social studies curriculum.
What is: themes of common bond, multiculturalism, precursors to an understanding of citizenship/economics/history/geography?
Name one necessary piece when planning musical experiences in the classroom.
What are: DAPs, provide variety in type and skill-building, increase appreciation of various types of music, a focus on PROCESS over PRODUCT?
It is the responsibility of the ____ to ensure the environment is clean, safe and healthy.
What is the teacher?
Give an example of exercising the senses in an unexpected way.
Ex: What does a bubble taste like?
What does a giraffe think about?
Describe a specific way that participation in art activities helps the young child to develop social-emotional skills.
When planning to incorporate creativity into core curriculum, teachers must always consider these.
What are developmentally appropriate practices (DAPs)?
One advantage of using puppetry in the early learning setting is this.
What is: helping children to master social-emotional skills, sharing of child-created stories, demonstrating concepts and behaviors?
For most young children, the younger they are affects the attention span in this way.
What is the attention span is shorter?