just saying.

Also, for everyone who's ever asked me, "So, what do you do with them? Finger paint?" here's the latest draft of Georgia Performance Standards for Art Education:

https://www.georgiastandards.org/Standards/Pages/BrowseStandards/FineArts.aspx

Until now, we've been using Quality Core Curriculum--otherwise known as QCCs--as the benchmark/outline for instruction. But the entire state is gradually making a shift to GPS--standards that build on one another from previous year(s) of learning e.g. student learns basics of Georgia history in kindergarten; in first grade, student reviews learning from previous year and instructor expands on it, including more detail and additional information. This'll continue throughout the student's grade school career.

In short: No. I do not finger paint with my students. I teach them about Japan and the art of Sumi-e. What it's like to be a student a world away. What the Four Gentlemen are and how to paint them using a bamboo brush. And they make me artwork that looks like this:

That's the project my fourth graders just finished. I am so unbelievably proud of them. They rule.