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Twins Lou and Evelyn Bohannon show off samples of their work at the kindergarten art exhibition. All photos courtesy of Angela Dittmar\/Arts-Based Collaborative.<\/p><\/div>\n

Are kindergarteners too far from college to be considered prospective university students?<\/p>\n

Not to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s Arts-Based Collaborative and a local elementary school.<\/p>\n

The Arts-Based Collaborative, a center within the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies, facilitates arts-based professional learning programs that support various needs across multiple fields and disciplines.<\/p>\n

Over this academic year, the center has participated in a community engagement project with kindergarten educators at Montessori Elementary at Highland Park to develop and co-teach programming in the fall and spring. Called the Visual Arts Integration Residency, the project culminated with an art exhibition at the elementary school in April.<\/p>\n

Montessori Elementary at Highland Park, which opened in August 2021, has five teachers for its 72 kindergarten students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a really robust project with two different curricular units,\u201d said Angela Dittmar, the Arts-Based Collaborative\u2019s director of Teaching Artist Residences. \u201cBoth units took place over the course of two to three weeks and we spent all day there, with the kindergartners coming through in rotations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my first time in this capacity working with 20-plus kindergartners at a time to accomplish project-based learning goals. It was such a delightful, challenging and inspiring experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dittmar said that one of the Montessori teachers, Aleece Crank, had landed a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission; in turn, Crank used that grant to commission the Arts-Based Collaborative for an arts integration project for the young students.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had been already aware of the Arts-Based Collaborative because she previously participated in a UTC-Wolf Trap classroom residency with one of our teaching artists,\u201d Dittmar explained, \u201cand she wanted to continue building her teaching toolkit in arts integration through visual arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

UTC-Wolf Trap is the first university-named affiliate program of the nationally renowned Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met with all of the kindergarten teachers,\u201d she continued, \u201cand designed the program so that it would integrate November curriculum and March curriculum with the idea of culminating with an April family art show.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kindergartener Brianna Johnson proudly displays her medallion.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dittmar, along with teaching artist assistants Mary Eliza Hendricks and Helia Quhite, constructed a literacy-based art integration project in the fall based on author Terri Cohlene\u2019s \u201cDancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dittmar said they focused on that story through drama, puppetry and props while also learning to make some of the pottery and art objects in the book. She cited the medallions Dancing Drum and others wore around their necks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used that to build a visual connection of similarly shaped items with some of their forms for teaching geometry, pie divisions and circles through tracing little triangular pie shapes,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

The students also created medallions from air-dry clay and made pinch pot rattles and coil pots.<\/p>\n

In March, the UTC group returned to Montessori Elementary for a second project integrating botany and habitat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn those sessions, the children made a journal out of folding paper, threading a pipe cleaner through it and having a cover,\u201d Dittmar said. \u201cThis became their field notes journal. They became naturalists in this project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey practiced looking and learning about a plant each day, learning about the animal or insect relationships each plant has.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students used their field notes to draw pictures and record what they wanted to remember about each plant. They also created a large botany collage based on the style of well-known children\u2019s author Eric Carle, creator of \u201cThe Very Hungry Caterpillar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEric Carle will produce these pieces of paper that have lots of textures, lots of different types of blue or green and shades,\u201d she explained, \u201cand that\u2019s sort of what we did. And that took us a couple days; that was a big learning curve for these kindergartners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey learned how to use tape to create bubbles. They learned how to layer paper and cut out multiple sequences to narrow in on the more organic shapes of these plants. And then they pasted it together and drew the roots and the stems or added an insect. They got to demonstrate their knowledge of botany and plant anatomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the April exhibit, the children and their families got to see the artwork mounted on black backing on the Montessori Elementary walls thanks to the work of Dittmar\u2019s Arts-Based Collaborative colleagues, Laurie Melnik Allen, Bill Floyd and Thaddeus Taylor. Collages, pottery and field journals were spread around for the parents to view.<\/p>\n

It also gave them a chance to glimpse into the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so important for us at UTC to work with kindergartners and early learners,\u201d Dittmar said, \u201cbecause we are setting them up early with this idea that UTC is part of their world and part of their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey see and have family members who have attended UTC and make those connections. Even if they\u2019re kindergartners and college is so far off, they can start visualizing themselves someday being at UTC.\u201d<\/p>\n

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