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Art Instruction Schools -- “Draw Me”

Art Instruction Schools (AIS) is the granddaddy of home study art instruction schools, having been founded in 1914 to train illustrators. The course and teaching method was so successful that the AIS-trained artists soon were in vast demand throughout the printing, advertising and newspaper industries. The growth in the school’s popularity prompted it to add to its curriculum, expanding to include cartooning, color, perspective drawing and other lessons. Finally, the Fundamentals of Art course was added to include all popular art techniques and became recognized as one of the most extensive art education programs available.

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Artistic Pursuits
Review by Linda K. Foster

Children, by their very nature, are creative beings and, unfortunately, too many art programs offer structured instruction that stifles this natural creativity. Artistic Pursuits takes the approach that teaching children to go beyond their first ideas and find solutions that are personal to them can stimulate creativity and the motivation to continue learning. Artistic Pursuits encourages students to explore their environment by looking at new things and new places and looking at them again and again until they see each in a new light. The creative process involves the artist starting with an image and manipulating it until it becomes technically and visually appealing, communicating what the artist is trying to say. Artistic Pursuits believes that this process can and should be developed at an early age and has designed programs beginning with grades K-3 and advancing to grades 4-12.

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Atelier

Art is an imperative part of any child’s education and is just as important as reading, writing, and mathematics. Many of our most valuable skills, including creative ability, aesthetic judgment, problem posing and solving, critical thinking, and visualization are fostered by an effective and thorough arts education. Research continually shows that children who receive art lessons while they are young become more imaginative and creative adults. Creativity allows for innovation and adaptability, both vital characteristics in today’s world. Unfortunately, education in the arts has begun to suffer in the public education system in favor of more “practical” subjects.

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CORE LEARNING - Featuring corefx Three Level
Review by L.K. Foster

The mission of Core Learning has always been “To bring quality educational resources to school and learning environments where fundamental skill development is valued as a basis for higher learning and life skills.”  To fulfill this mission, Core Learning offers an array of software programs and books as supplemental learning resources designed to reinforce and consolidate the understanding of grade level curriculum, to assess learning needs and remediate skills to grade level, and to offer opportunities to enrich and accelerate learning. Products are well-designed and easy to use and follow sound and proven instructional design principles. Core Learning also believes “…computing technologies can effectively facilitate and manage learning especially where the software program is adaptable to different learning needs.”

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Day to Day Enterprises: Grandma's Magic Scissors

For nearly 50 years Grandma has entertained children and adults alike with the magic of her scissors. Grandma's Magic Scissors has over 100 patterns along with detailed directions on how you can take a blank sheet of paper and create art that will produce hours of pleasure. Nowhere will you find more diverse patterns in a single book than within the 160 pages of this book.

“Grandma’s Magic Scissors is a dream for scissor happy people. With over a hundred patterns rated easy to expert we found lots of different patterns to suite our tastes. The directions are simple and straighforward and all the patterns are full size. No matter if your a crafter or a child you will enjoy this inventive and fun book..” —Society for Authors and Writers

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iD Tech Camps

Check out America’s #1 technology camp.  During this weeklong, day and overnight program, ages 7-17 build robots, create video games, design websites with Flash®, film digital movies, learn programming and more.  With one computer per student and an average of six students per staff, students are given the attention they need to excel and take home a project at the end of the weeklong course.  Programs are located at over 50 prestigious universities in 23 states, including Stanford, Brown, Columbia, MIT, Northwestern, Georgetown, Emory and more.  Special Teen programs include: iD Gaming Academy iD Film Academy and a Study Abroad program in Spain.  Spaces fill quickly so visit www.internalDrive.com <http://www.internaldrive.com/>  for more details and online specials.  You can also call 1-888-709-TECH (8324).  Mention promo code WD43 to save.

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Math Drawings
Review by Linda K. Foster

Math Drawings by Mary Smale is an exciting multi-disciplinary method of incorporating art with math allowing students to create entire pic

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tures using only basic geometric shapes. For over 30 years, Mary Smale taught algebra and other math disciplines in high school and middle school. During this time, she developed her unique math-based art lesson, originally used as a reward system for her 8th grade students.

Mary soon found that she was able to disguise new and old math vocabulary as instructions for drawing and, for the first time in her teaching career, she had 100% participation in her math lessons. Her students were able to combine their love for drawing with basic geometric principles to create “works of art”.  Mary later taught math and art on television for 2½ on the Los Angeles based KLCS-TV program “Homework Hotline Teacher” and was ultimately convinced to write Math Drawings so her principles could be used by teachers in their art, history and special education classes.

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