SCUOLA DELL’INFANZIA I CIRCOLO DIDATTICO “G. FALCONE”

CONVERSANO- ITALY

A Comenius multilateral school partnership project of innovative ideas and methods on using arts in pre-school

and school education, for European citizenship and European identity formation.

Edited by Coordinator Donata Altini

Who

This presentation is a documentation about the

activities of project in our infant schools : “De

Amicis”, “Giotto”, “A. Seveso” , of the 1° Circolo

Didattico “G. Falcone” in Conversano, a town in

South Italy with 25.000 people.

The project involves all 300 pupils (by 3 to 5

age) and 32 teachers. Our school is attended

by students with special needs too.

WHERE

COUNTRYES IN PARTNERSHIP

The main ideas…

UNESCO, “The encouragement of creativity from an early age is one of the best guarantees of growth in a healthy environment of self-

esteem and mutual respect -critical ingredients for building a

culture of peace.”

Why

Music and Art are Two Universal Languages in our European school project.

• They are languages that all people speak that cut across racial, cultural, social, educational, and economic barriers and enhance cultural appreciation and awareness.

• They provide opportunities for self-expression, bringing the inner world into the outer world of concrete reality.

• They develop both independence and collaboration.

• They make it possible to use personal strengths in meaningful ways and to bridge into understanding sometimes difficult abstractions through these strengths.

• They improve academic achievement -- enhancing test scores, attitudes, social skills, critical and creative thinking.

• They exercise and develop higher order thinking skills including analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and "problem-finding."

• They provide the means for every student to learn.

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and innovative artists and

designers of the 20th century, but also one of the most sophisticated and

original thinkers on modern art and design in this period.

Munari always paid special attention to the world of children. He was also a

huge contributor to the field of children's books and toys .

The “Bruno Munari Method”®, consisted in promoting, in children, the active exploration of various techniques

of artistic expression and communication, to be able to feel all

the different sensations that this experience gives them.

Bruno Munari

"A creative child is a

happy child“

Teaching art to children playing with: Signs, Shapes, Colours, Textures, Collage, Photocopy.

HOW

WHAT

THE PROJECT

inspires children creativity and imagination by introducing famous

painters and their most popular paintings.The children, listening different styles of

music, create their masterpiece paintings.

The "strategy"

“Once upon a time, in Europe there was Little Chameleon. Its life was not very exciting until the day it discovered it

could change not only its colour but its shape and size: one day he went to a museum

"Music of art and art of music". Listening to different

music styles, it admired different artistic works

(Modern, Contemporary and Impressionist) and.......”

In our project the children are

FIRST YEAR PROJECT

ACTIVITIESSEPTEMBER-Informing teachers, children, parents and general public for the project subject and objective by local and national press.-Opening Blog of project.-Acquaintance of the territory in which the schools partner are situated.-School festival: Little Chameleon arrives to school.

Children discovered FINOGLIO, an Italian

painter, at Pinacoteca of Conversano in

European Heritage Day - September 28th, 2013

PAINTING AS Paolo FINOGLIO the

“Gerusalemme Liberata”listening classical music

(Juditha by Vivaldi)

Paolo Finoglio was

one famous national

visual artist and

Vivaldi one musical

artist .

Art for PEACE and brotherhood among

peoples.October 4th, 2013

LITTLE CHAMELEON for International

Children's Rights Day November 20th 2013

Our little painters explored the wonders of fine art while using a few famous paintings

as creative influences. Children use points, dots, lines,

shapes, colours.Images and music are the

language of the psyche: young children enjoyed

“painting” different melodies, their colours,

vibrations and sensations.

“Art-reading” activities at the

Library of children in

Conversano

Playing and painting

“A Child Runs Along a Balcony” by Giacomo Balla listening to music

of Webern

Making Art with Dots like

Seurat, Signac…and Balla

PAINTINGS WITH DOTS like Georges Seurat , Paul Signac and

Giacomo Balla

THE LINE: A MOOVING POINT.

Children played with lines.

ABSTRACT ART PAINTING LINES

Children, listening to Mozart, useing different materials, created their paintings.

PAINTING LIKE KLEE (“Insula

Dulcamara” and “The moon”) AND

KLIMT (“Forest of Beech Trees”)

CLOSING LINES ARE SHAPES

PAINTING GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONS LIKE

KANDINSKY, MONDRIAN AND KLEE LISTENING TO

COOL JAZZ

FUNNY SHAPES

PLAYING AND PAINTING FANTASY CHARACTERS OF

MIRO’ AND KLEE

Laboratory of drama about Miro’ with local artists

Strange Signs of

Capogrossi with

apple and toy

blocks stampingGiuseppe Capogrossi was an

Italian painter of abstract

works. He created his own

picture language made up of

horizontal, oval, and ellipsoid

forms.

Dots and Lines, working

together and in rhythm,

can formed creative

patterns and textures

PAINTING TEXTURES by using the technique of ‘frottage’ with pastels and

patterns with letters like Klee

TANGRAM : DIFFERENT PATTERNS listening to China

music.Tangram, "seven

pieces of

cleverness", is an

ancient Chinese

puzzle helping with

logic and thinking

skills, dexterity .. and

they were just plain

puzzling fun!

Arranging seven pieces into an

incredible number of shapes:

CREATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH TANGRAM

created in various ways and from various materials (collage), toys, colouring templates, listening relaxation music with an oriental flavor by children.

MANDALAS

CHILDREN PAINTED LIKE JACKSON POLLOCK: Splatter Paint OF JAZZ MUSIC!

OUR CREATIONS FOR EARTH DAY: ART RECICLYNG

DIFFERENT STYLES FOR TREES WITH POINTS LINES AND SHAPES

ART FOR CHRISTMAS AND EASTER

Exchanging of European children’

paintings during the meetings: in Italy and Poland

MEETING IN ISTANBUL

www.musicofartcomenius.blogspot.comIS THE blog-DIARY OF PROJECT

We are evaluating the project by questionnaires for teachers, parents and

children. The products, the paintings and all activities of project are disseminated and

publicized at the local level with a final exhibition in a town location,

in large scale via local press and web.

AND THE PROJECT WILL CONTINUE….

Donatella