Duffy school uses a Discipline Based Arts Education approach to teach children. This approach treats art as a subject of study, rather than as a recreational activity. It has four components:

Besides working very hard on our fine motor skills, art will help children to develop mental skills that are not developed by other disciplines.  Some of the thinking skills that we work on in Art are focusing, problem solving, remembering, organizing, decision making, analyzing, generating, composing, integrating, interpreting, and evaluation.  Many of these are higher level thinking skills.

Artists in our Curriculum are:

K - Grandma Moses, Leo Leoni, Mondran, Mexican Art

1st - Cassatt, Rousseau, African Art

2nd  - Monet, Bearden, Japanese Art

3rd - Van Gogh, Matisse, Calder, American Indian Art

4th - Op Art, O'Keeffe, Seurat

5th - Dali, Picasso, Warhol

Integrating Art with other subjects in the regular classroom is also a high priority in our program and helps the children see how subjects work together (math and art, history and culture and art, science and constructing in art). The Annual Duffy Art Show will be the last 2 weeks in May this year.

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