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Posted: Jan 24 2008 at 12:09pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
In the current Artist of the Month study I mentioned writing poetry to go with a painting being studied. Narrations (oral or written) are another possibility to combine the two subjects.

In that thread Gwen mentioned this clever idea that they had done.

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We did a fantabulous activity several years ago from BraveWriter. You may still be able to find it on their website. It will take a few hours and I let my older children join in--they really enjoyed it.

Basically what you do is give each child a whole stack of magazines and let them find and cut out words that they love saying or looking at. It could be for the sound or the look of them (this means even those who aren't reading can join this activity). So you end up with a whole pile of cool words like juicy, misty, zesty, etc. and a lot of nouns, verbs, and pronouns as well.

Then you pick a painting; we picked a painting of a ship at war (can't remember the name right now). Obviously for this unit you want to pick a Bruegel, and you form your poem completely from the words in the pile. We sorted them out and added a couple of words not in our stack but our poem turned out really well!!


What other ideas have you heard of or utilized to combine the study of visual art and language arts?

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