Chapter 2 lessons

I was in Group 2 for the teaching lesson over chapter 2. My group was assigned the task of teaching our class about the five stages that children experience when learning to draw, or the five developmental stages of art. The first is scribbling, ages 2-4, and is distinguishable because of the random marks on the page and for a while there is no form to anything. The second stage is preschematic, ages 4-7, and at this point children begin drawing people but without bodies (just sort of like arms and legs on a face) and their art varies in size and position on the paper. The third stage is schematic, ages 7-9, and this is the stage in which children start to draw houses to go along with their people, their people begin getting bodies, and everything appears in a straight line across the bottom of the paper. The fourth stage is "gang age", ages 9-12, and this is when children begin drawing "scenes" so to speak, such as a girl at the grocery store for example, and although their art skills are developing more their art is still very boxy looking. The fifth stage, which overlaps with "gang age" and occurs during ages 11-12, is the psuedonaturalistic stage, in which children begin drawing more cartoon like figures but they often try to hide them in notebooks so that no one can see them. Looking at the different stages of art was very helpful to me because it gave me a better idea of what stage the students I plan to teach will be in and what I can expect to see from them and also what projects are outside of their level. I chose to put this blog under the foundations label because I feel that looking at these stages, one can see the beginning or each stage (but maybe not the end).