Care of Self
Care of the Environment
Food Prep
Grace and Courtesy
Perceptual Motor
Activities include walking on beam, carrying spoon with egg, and identifying body cards.
Visual Motor Coordination
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Montessori review
It is important to
remember that the child’s actions are not due to random choice, but directed by
his inner needs for development.
…it is like a light that
shines on some objects but not on others, making of them his whole world.
Not sermons but creative
instincts are important, because they are realities.
Preparation for human
society is based on the activities of children who act, urged on by the needs
of their nature, in a limited world corresponding to the frame.
The child might say, “I am
not perfect, I am not omnipotent, but this much I can do and I know it. I also know that I can make mistakes and
correct myself, thus finding my way.”
The great task of
education must be to secure and to preserve a normality which, of its own
nature, gravitates toward the center of perfection.
The greatest step forward in
human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor,
instead of oppressing and despising them.
The small child walks to
develop his powers, he is building up his being. He goes slowly. He has neither
rhythmic step nor goal. But things around him allure him and urge him forward.
If the adult would be of help, he must renounce his own rhythm and his own aim.
The teacher’s happy task
is to show them [children] the paths to perfection, furnishing the means and
removing the obstacles, begging with those which she herself is likely to
present.
…the will is a force which
impels activities beneficial to life.
Language
Alphabetizing
Sequence Cards
Ph. Matching Cards
Metal Inserts
Using objects for language
Scanning Dictation
Non-ph. Object Game
Sentences and stories
Letter of Week Tray
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Art Appreciation (Week 2)
Structure Within
Slow reading and discussion of Krishnamurti's "On Nature and the Environment."
-How to look without a center? A self-abandonment
-How do we see, without labels, without preconception?
-From where do we engage?
-How do we participate in constructing and reconstructing our world?
Jon Kabat Zinn's sitting meditation- assignment practice for one week.
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Write a page of your illuminated manuscript. Focus on handwriting, slowing down with the curve of each letter. What is the life philosophy you follow? The Bible was quoted along with Shakespeare and Krishnamurti.
Introduction to Zentangle, following something moment to moment, constructing space, a looseness, presence, and exploring absorption.
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Slow reading and discussion of Krishnamurti's "On Nature and the Environment."
-How to look without a center? A self-abandonment
-How do we see, without labels, without preconception?
-From where do we engage?
-How do we participate in constructing and reconstructing our world?
Jon Kabat Zinn's sitting meditation- assignment practice for one week.
Write a page of your illuminated manuscript. Focus on handwriting, slowing down with the curve of each letter. What is the life philosophy you follow? The Bible was quoted along with Shakespeare and Krishnamurti.
Introduction to Zentangle, following something moment to moment, constructing space, a looseness, presence, and exploring absorption.
-works from Documenta 13
How does philosophy, People's History, and everything we have discussed tie into Art Appreciation?
Slide Presentation- The Masters, Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Rembrandt, Manet, Monet, etc.
-Discussed looking. (On looking and listening: "One of the hardest things to do,'- Krishnamurti)
Looked at Manet's Peony
Next day drew and painted from observation: Easter Lilly
Jonas took a pencil and created his first cave drawing. The sheer joy of his stroke prevented me from interrupting. After each mark he burst into delight. (The next day he was introduced to eraser.) we discussed natural mark-making and how to observe/learn from our children.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Want wall no-wall
What is it that I truly want?
I've been thinking a lot about that this month - so my absence from our conversation was not really an absence, but more of my trying to make sense of what I want, how to prioritize my time, setting an intention, and acknowledging and accepting my hopes and dreams for each present moment. Even with all that, "you don't always get you want, but you get what you need" plays in my mind. Nice to remember...
I am feeling my mortality more and more each day.
The older Alessandro gets, the more I realize that I'm halfway over in this world.
It's an incredible feeling, and also a sharp reminder that I don't want to waste any more time doing things that are inconsequential and petty. So I haven't been. Setting my own ground and working quite diligently but very differently than how I've worked in the past has been pleasantly surprising. Everything is work: planting a tree, sheet mulching the garden, taking care of the plants that made it through the winter, playing with and teaching my kid, understanding the third thing that happens when two images are brought together, relating to Turu more gently...it's all part of it.
We have worked on our building project in Brooklyn for the last few weeks; a lot of attention has been paid to that. It feels good to sweep away the cobwebs, repaint the hallways, organize the areas that don't get used very often. I planted 14 bamboo plants on the roof, in custom planters that our friend made for the space. Of course it's to make the roof look better (to buy), but even if we hold on to the building, I've wanted to plant those plants for the last seven years - for myself! Even though I realize how artificial a "green roof" actually is, I did want to create some sort of living area in the middle of a sea of concrete and silver painted rooftops. It does make a difference, I tell myself.
There has been an incredible lightness to how I relate to my partner and child.
What I truly want is balance.
I want my work to make a difference, for my life to make a difference. For my actions to mean something. I'd like not be an anonymous artist forever. Whatever that means.
I've been thinking a lot about that this month - so my absence from our conversation was not really an absence, but more of my trying to make sense of what I want, how to prioritize my time, setting an intention, and acknowledging and accepting my hopes and dreams for each present moment. Even with all that, "you don't always get you want, but you get what you need" plays in my mind. Nice to remember...
I am feeling my mortality more and more each day.
The older Alessandro gets, the more I realize that I'm halfway over in this world.
It's an incredible feeling, and also a sharp reminder that I don't want to waste any more time doing things that are inconsequential and petty. So I haven't been. Setting my own ground and working quite diligently but very differently than how I've worked in the past has been pleasantly surprising. Everything is work: planting a tree, sheet mulching the garden, taking care of the plants that made it through the winter, playing with and teaching my kid, understanding the third thing that happens when two images are brought together, relating to Turu more gently...it's all part of it.
We have worked on our building project in Brooklyn for the last few weeks; a lot of attention has been paid to that. It feels good to sweep away the cobwebs, repaint the hallways, organize the areas that don't get used very often. I planted 14 bamboo plants on the roof, in custom planters that our friend made for the space. Of course it's to make the roof look better (to buy), but even if we hold on to the building, I've wanted to plant those plants for the last seven years - for myself! Even though I realize how artificial a "green roof" actually is, I did want to create some sort of living area in the middle of a sea of concrete and silver painted rooftops. It does make a difference, I tell myself.
There has been an incredible lightness to how I relate to my partner and child.
What I truly want is balance.
I want my work to make a difference, for my life to make a difference. For my actions to mean something. I'd like not be an anonymous artist forever. Whatever that means.
wikipedia?
Dear Angela Rose Voulgarelis,
I'm the webmaster of wikigallery.org, the largest "Open Community" Fine Art Wiki Project in the world. We receive millions of visitors monthly. Our database of Fine Art images and articles is in the millions and we continue to grow daily. We are a nonprofit organization. This is your opportunity to take part in our project.
I visited your website earlier today and wanted to congratulate you on a creating a well presented and informative site. I would like to add a link to your website from wikigallery.org and wanted to know if you would be kind enough to link back to us.
Adding a link from wikigallery.org to your website will greatly increase your Search Engine Ranking in Google, Yahoo, Bing and other websites. A link from our site to your site will mean that your site will ranked HIGHER on these search engine results pages which will translate to more visitors and better exposure.
If you are interested let us know, and I will get back to you with the exact link information that we would like you to use. Please also let me know what description you would like us to use when we link back to you.
Looking forward to hear from you,
Victoria
wikigallery.org
Webmaster
I'm the webmaster of wikigallery.org, the largest "Open Community" Fine Art Wiki Project in the world. We receive millions of visitors monthly. Our database of Fine Art images and articles is in the millions and we continue to grow daily. We are a nonprofit organization. This is your opportunity to take part in our project.
I visited your website earlier today and wanted to congratulate you on a creating a well presented and informative site. I would like to add a link to your website from wikigallery.org and wanted to know if you would be kind enough to link back to us.
Adding a link from wikigallery.org to your website will greatly increase your Search Engine Ranking in Google, Yahoo, Bing and other websites. A link from our site to your site will mean that your site will ranked HIGHER on these search engine results pages which will translate to more visitors and better exposure.
If you are interested let us know, and I will get back to you with the exact link information that we would like you to use. Please also let me know what description you would like us to use when we link back to you.
Looking forward to hear from you,
Victoria
wikigallery.org
Webmaster
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Art Appreciation (Week 1)
Laying the ground
medium: charcoal and eraser
pencil and eraser
slow
Reading excerpts from People's History like:
"Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they men they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides...they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation...In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of mil...and in short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile... was depopulated...My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write..."
Written by Las Casas from his Histories of the Indies. Comment reflects his first observation account of Columbus settling in Hispaniola in 1508.
1800 painting by Albert Bierstadt, loved, praised and sold for twenty five thousand, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, in actuality, the Matterhorn of the Alps.
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
medium: charcoal and eraser
pencil and eraser
slow
Reading excerpts from People's History like:
"Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they men they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides...they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation...In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of mil...and in short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile... was depopulated...My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write..."
Written by Las Casas from his Histories of the Indies. Comment reflects his first observation account of Columbus settling in Hispaniola in 1508.
1800 painting by Albert Bierstadt, loved, praised and sold for twenty five thousand, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, in actuality, the Matterhorn of the Alps.
What is the baggage we carry? What is the history of the land we stand on? What is our own history, personal, political, economic? What are we carrying with us today? What are the daily habits informed by? Who picks up our mess?
Discuss cultural constructs
View "Anything is Possible" by William
Discuss Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Quote the Constitution: "
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Memphis Sanitation Strike
http://www.hankwillisthomas.com/WORKS/Mixed-Media/1/
Watched Kara Walker's A Subtlety
Exercises:
-The HAND, drawing gesture, contour, and shading
-Shading steps 1-10
-Portrait through touch
-The other- Portrait through looking at light- Rub Out
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