For some weekend reading, take your pick.
Kid-friendly art that clangs, chimes, and shimmies
If you had tried a few months ago to persuade Abby Gardella to go to an art museum, it wouldn't have been easy. It's not that the fifth-grader doesn't enjoy art. She does. But "usually art at a museum is made by adults," she says. "If adults do it, we don't understand what it is." That, she suggests, makes art "not fun for kids."
However, Abby is slowly changing her mind. That's thanks to some unusual art that has transformed the walls of the entryway in her elementary school into a giant kinetic (moving) sculpture called the "kinetiscape."
An innovative teacher turns kids into writers
Nancy Barile's flair for teaching has captured her students' attention - and just earned her an award from the College Board.
| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
REVERE, MASS. – Most of the hallways in Revere High School are lined with skinny, sherbet-orange lockers. But outside Nancy Barile's classroom, her sophomore lit students have placed a stately row of poster-board gravestones, complete with epitaphs, for the characters who died in "Hamlet."Ms. Barile knows how to hook the CSI generation. But it's her flair for teaching them to write that earned her a recent award from the College Board.
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