See this big old tree.
All around it little trees,
Looking up to it.
-Staci
Staci embellished her windblown-tree painting by weaving ribbon
into the page, plus she cut the paper to center a round red "sun" in a rectangle
at the top of the page - like the Japanese flag! The Japanese call their country
Nippon which means "source of the sun". The rising-sun Japanese flag
was adopted in 1854.
ArtHouse provides a focal point for creativity-inspiring Language Arts projects at
all grade levels from pre-literacy through the middle grades. As shown here, ArtHouse
provides a lovely place to display and present short poems in an interesting,
thematically appropriate context. The students envisioned a Japanese garden in winter,
and imagined viewing its weathered trees from the perspective of the original haiku poet,
Matsuo Basho, who lived in a humble gardener's hut.
ArtHouse helps teachers tie the humanities together, and pursue answers to the
"essential questions in social studies." How do people live? What motivates them?
What makes them human? Using student-made "storyboards", conceived around ArtHouse
as a focal point, it's the process that's important. Students are motivated
and engaged in analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating evidence that they gather
themselves. ArtHouse is a uniquely powerful teaching aid!
Visit The Haiku Poetry Page To See The Class Project Assembled
You're invited to submit art to the ArtHouse Children's Art Gallery!
Kids' Art Gallery Submission Instructions
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