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Copyright 2009 Delmar Learning.All Rights Reserved.

Awakening the Senses

“It was the most imaginative, rich childhood you could ever want. That’s why I have so much

inside me that I want to paint.”—Andrew Wyeth (Merryman, 1991, p. 21)

Braids Christina’s World


Aesthetics

• An abstract concept

• Means perception in Greek

• Involves the love and pursuit of beauty as found in art, movement, music and life

• Is an awareness and appreciation of the natural beauty found in nature and one’s surroundings

• Being a beholder of beauty


Examples of Aesthetic ExperiencesTouching the sparkling

design of frost on a window

Stopping to savor the

aroma of freshly baked bread

Viewing the translucent silkiness of a spider web


Aesthetics

• A branch of philosophy concerned with an individual’s pursuit of and response to beauty

• It involves:– Attitude– Process/experience– Response


Aesthetics

• Teacher’s Role– Expose, not impose– Aesthetic model– Provide for a wide variety in the arts– Aesthetic classroom

• Books• Art visitors• Art trips• Sensory literacy


Aesthetic Development

Children are born with a sense of wonder. Their aesthetic sense develops through:

• Sensory experiences

• Exposure to their own cultural styles

• Experiences with other aesthetic styles

• Messages from the media

• Adult and peer reactions to arts performances


Developing Sensory Awareness

1. Describe the sensory qualities of things and events.

2. Put out displays of interesting objects.

3. Ask questions that invite children to describe or compare sensations they are feeling.


Sensory Integration

Sensory integration is the processing of information gathered by the senses.

Sensory integration dysfunction (SID) is being over- or under sensitive to touch, movement, sights, and sounds.


Sensory Perception Activities

• Visual

• Tactile

• Olfactory

• Gustatory

• Auditory


Additional Senses (Montessori)

• Chromatic- Montessori views this as a subset of the broader sense of vision. It involved the ability to identify, match, and discriminate among colors.

• Thermic- deals with the

perception of temperature.

This wooden box with compartments holds 8 stainless steel bottle with screw-on tops.The teacher prepares the exercise by filling the bottles with water of various temperature. The exercise of pairing and grading the thermic bottles helps refine the thermic senses.



• Sterognostic- being able to recognize objects through tactile-muscular exploration without the aid of vision

Feely bag



• Baric- Recognizing objects as heavy or light The Baric Tablets introduce and

refine the concept of the baric sense. While blindfolded, the child endeavors to discern the weight of the tablets of wood. Error is controlled by the color of the wooden tablets, the lightest color wood being the lightest weight to the darkest color wood being the heaviest weight. The set consists of a box with 7 light-weight tablets, a box with 7 medium-weight tablets and a box with 7 heavy-weight tablets.



• Kinesthetic- involves the whole body, sensory-motor muscular response


Elements of the Arts

These ingredients are the building blocks of the artist, composer, dancer, and actor. All arts performances and works contain one or more of the following:

Line Shape Color Texture

Pattern & Rhythm

Form Space Movement


Elements of the Arts (continued)

Line



Color



Texture



Shape



Pattern & RhythmInsert image 4.11



Form



Space



Movement

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