Art
Club Dates: Wednesdays: September 11, 18, 25, October 2, 9, 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11
Club Size: Limited to 20 Students
Club Members: Must be in Grades 1st and 2nd
Explore and Learn different ways to create art. We will play around with multiple art media and unusual techniques for creating. Different materials and techniques we may use for our art exploration: Blowing paint with straws, string painting, fork painting,
paper tube painting, newspaper and magazine collage, scrap paper art, creating mosaics and other crafty designs using dried beans, lentils, peas, and a variety of dried pastas.
For Questions or more information please contact Miss Millsapps at kristie.millsapps@adams12.org or 720-972-8164
Please reach out to email to get a permission slip if needed for both or either club.
Club Dates: Tuesdays:
September 10, 17, 24, October 1, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, December 3, 10, 17
Club Size: Limited to 20 Students
Club Members: Must be in Grades 3, 4, 5
Do you want to learn to write in cursive and include cursive handwriting into your art for fun? This Club is for you!!! Is cursive writing an art? Yes it is! Incorporating Cursive Handwriting into Your Art can lead to some very creative results! Writing a letter in one's own hand can be an artistic act. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the page. ... Free-spirited scribbled letters trip
over each other, and distinctive dashes help direct traffic.
What are the benefits of learning cursive handwriting?In fact, learning to write in cursive is shown to improve brain development in the areas of thinking, language and working memory. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity
between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing. Research shows that learning to write in cursive offers brain benefits to kids that they don't get from printing letters or keyboarding. ... Specifically, cursive writing trains the brain to learn functional specialization, which is the capacity for optimal efficiency.