Art
At PS 8 since 1998
Ms. Kravitz taught fifth grade at PS 8 for six years before becoming the art teacher in the fall 2004. Ms. Kravitz says she typically has the younger students work on projects that let them practice fine motor skills, such as cutting, tracing, pasting and sculpting with clay. Older students also work with clay, doing both flat relief and three-dimensional forms; they draw perspectives and portraits and are introduced to inks and watercolor washes. At the start of the 2005 school year, Ms. Kravitz started integrating what students were learning in social studies and science into the art curriculum; when pre-k and kindergarten students are learning about aquatic animals, for example, she instructs the students to draw or sculpt those types of creatures. “Wherever I can integrate social studies and science, I’m doing it,” she says. Ms. Kravitz earned her master’s degree in education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. On weekends she likes to listen to live music and attend creative workshops in painting and drawing.
