I guess it has been a while since I blogged here. Unfortunately I wasn't able to teach art class during my practicum but I was able to incorporate some art into my poetry class in language arts. I was teaching descriptive language and poetry so I used art pictures to help students get a grasp of how to describe certain things in a poem or a story. I used Emily Carr and Monet as objects that they had to describe. This worked quite well and students learned to use descriptive language when writing. I used this Monet picture for them to describe as I thought it would be more of a challenge for them. It is a simple painting but it allows for a large amount of description for students.