Welcome to the Alcott Art Web Page!

Students at Alcott will tell you that "Art is about thinking". What do we mean by that? We mean that our Concord K-5 Art Curriculum is based on the following philosophy:

All art lessons are sufficiently open ended to encourage individual problem solving at the appropriate developmental level. While the design of the art lessons directs students toward a specific concept or lesson objective, one of the unique aspects of the art curriculum is that there is never a "right answer." Instead, problem solving belongs to each individual student. At all levels, the lessons aim to provoke students into considering these questions:

• What is my idea?
• What do I know about this material?
• How can I use what I know about this material to communicate my idea?
• What visual strategies do I know, or what are some new ones I can discover?
• What can I learn from my classmates during this process?

This website is intended to depict the range and sequence of the Alcott Art curriculum, K-5. For each lesson there are several examples of student work, chosen to demonstrate a variety of student responses. It is also our intention to give parents a context in which to view and discuss your own child’s work when it arrives at home.

We invite you to browse through the Alcott Art Web Page to see examples of student work.

Thank you,

Barbara Gordon and Eleanne Roosenburg, Alcott Art Teachers

 

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