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Art Class with Ms. McIntosh
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Art is Like Magic!
Did you know that Ms. Donna McIntosh is a former National Art Teacher of the Year? She's sharp and she knows what she's doing... Come ready to learn with a sharpened pencil.



Art
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Elements of Line and Color
is one of the Specialty Classes offered during Prep
time for students. Here's what our students are learning in Art :

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Ms. McIntosh relating Literature to Art

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The Language of Art

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Mixed Medium

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Image Gallery: Ames Art in the Halls

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Image Gallery: Art in 2nd grade

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Visual/ Spatial Intelligence (Source: Walter McKenzie www.surfaquarium.com)
Core Characteristics:

* Spatial Awareness - solving problems using spatial orientation
* Non-sequential Reasoning - thinking in divergent ways
* Visual Acuity - assessment of information based on principals of design and aesthetics
* Imagination - seeing the possibilities before engaging them in the physical world
* Small motor coordination - creating, building, arranging, decorating