ARTS INTEGRATION MENOMONIE INCORPORATES ART INTO ELEMENTARY LESSONS TO AID MENOMONIE TEACHERS
October 3rd 2015
ARTICLE BY: Leader Telegram
Kindergarten students at Wakanda Elementary School in Menomonie not only learned how to care for a fragile item, but learned empathy and self-control. "A peacock feather is delicate, and to balance it one the hand one must move slowly and practice, self-control." teaching artist, Kobi Shaw told students. "The goal to use various kinds of arts- mine is circus arts- to help teachers teach curriculum." Shaw said, noting the artists are co-teachers and not artists-in-residence.