CRES Featured in District Student Art Exhibition - 2019

My Central Riverside art students continue to amaze me with their creativity and skills!

Each year, art teachers from every DCPS elementary school select outstanding student artwork to represent their school in the Annual Library Art Shows at various area branch libraries and the Best of Elementary Exhibit at the Main Library, downtown. This year, outstanding CRES student artwork, along with art representing other area schools, will be on display at the Murray Hill Library from March 22-April 24. 

Student artists will be recognized at a reception in their honor on Tuesday, April 16th @ 6PM at the Murray Hill Library located at 918 Edgewood Avenue South. 

Congratulations to six CRES student artists who's beautiful artwork is on display representing the Best of Central Riverside Elementary School!

Best of Elementary - Mya, 5th Grade, Watercolor

Layla, 5th grade, watercolor paint

Layla, 5th grade - Watercolor

Taleena, 3rd grade, multi-media

Vayda, 5th grade, watercolor

Leonard, 4th grade , Tempera & Oil Pastel

Yaseen, Kindergarten, collage & tempera

Art Field Trips Increases Critical-thinking Skills

And THIS is why I am so committed to booking Field trips to The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens for my art students!

"A large amount of the gain in critical-thinking skills stems from an increase in the number of observations that students made in their essays. Students who went on a tour became more observant, noticing and describing more details in an image. Being observant and paying attention to detail is an important and highly useful skill that students learn when they study and discuss works of art. Additional research is required to determine if the gains in critical thinking when analyzing a work of art would transfer into improved critical thinking about other, non-art-related subjects."

Learn more about this study at the following link:

https://www.educationnext.org/the-educational-value-of-field-trips/?fbclid=IwAR0g2oevr9uKFJ0PC2MRWBaahgI2IxvgUOEPq4p_6RyTGECldawsz0nHpbs

Artspeak!

Central Riverside students practice the language of art as they mix paint to create values of color.

CRES Abstract Art

Central Riverside's 4th grade students learn about abstract art and create line design paintings using fluorescent tempera cakes. Next, they will add line details using oil pastels.  They were a bit nervous at first because their painting "didn't look like anything" but soon discovered that  Abstract Art has no subject. It is just lines, shapes, and colors.

Teaching Other Teachers

Ever wonder how blind kids make and share art?  I had the honor of teaching a workshop today at Florida Art Education State Conference titled “Art Beyond Sight- Teaching Empathy Through Art.” Art teachers learned how people who are blind make and share art. #FAEA18  

In this workshop, teachers explored strategies to teach empathy to their sighted students by giving them opportunities to experience how it might feel to have low or no vision. Workshop participants learned ways to provide unique experiences for their own students, allowing them to explore art, make art and share their art using the sense of touch.

Integrating Literacy into the Art Classroom at Central Riverside Elementary

Arts Integration is a big part of my art teaching so featuring an children's art book library is front and center in my art classroom.  Ask any of our students at Central Riverside about our classroom art library and they will tell you there are so many choices they just cant decide.

I am very proud of our collection of children's' art books and am always making additions. Incorporating literacy into my students art class supports educating the whole child.

Here are some of the newest additions to our art classroom library:

Get To Know Your Art Teacher

For those parents who do not know me, I'm Terry Woodlief, Art Teacher at Central Riverside Elementary School. I am beginning my 6th year at Central Riverside. That means I have known most of our 5th graders since they were in kindergarten.  I am in my 42nd year of art teaching and I'm not tired of it yet!

I am very passionate about teaching art and some have asked what from my past has inspired me to choose to be an art teacher.  Below is a short video that might help answer that question!