Glastonbury Public Schools

Elementary Art 

Grades K-6

Visual Art – Elementary Curriculum Course Descriptions

Art in grades K-5 offers both a body of content knowledge and a spiraling scope and sequence of discipline-specific learning experiences that combine to develop artistic skills, abilities, and habits of mind. These learning experiences reflect the Art Department’s philosophy of art education and its program goals and program objectives, State and National Visual Art Standards, GPS Strategic Goals and 21st Century Skills. 

The philosophy speaks to a broad rationale for studying art and addresses art education as unique opportunities to:

Kindergarten Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.

Introduction to:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative works of art.

Introduction to decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade One Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Introduction to decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade Two Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, value, and texture.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Introduction to decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade Three Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade Four Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade Five Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through:

Grade Six Art Students

Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.

Introduction to and development of:

Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.

Decision making through:

Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:

Learning is assessed through: