| NAME OF MONTESSORI ACTIVITY | Art Step 6 – Learning about the Schools of Art |
| AREA | The Arts |
| AGE | 3 – 9 Years |
| MATERIALS |  Art Step 2 -Level 2 Materials (The children can begin to recognise the work of some of the major artists. These artist come to represent different schools of art. A school of art, is a group of artists whose paintings show a general similarity of style. - · French impressionistic Paintings
- · 17th century Dutch Paintings
- · 18th century British Portraits
- · Geometric Abstract Paintings
- · Primitive Paintings
- · Japanese Paintings)
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| DIRECT AIM | - To learn the names of 6 different schools of art.
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| INDIRECT AIM | - Visual discrimination
- Concentration
- Broaden his cultural knowledge
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| PRESENTATION | - Begin with about 6 selected schools of art that are familiar to the child.
- Lay out the set out in a vertical or horizontal row.
- Ask the child if he notices any similarities about all the paintings.
- Tell the child that all the paintings in that folder were done by artists who worked in a particular place and used a particular style. Therefore we say they belong to a particular school of art.
- Point to the name of the school on the folder and find the location of that school on a world map.
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