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:
Explore, develop, and express alternate ways of knowing, being and doing.
Develop art production skills.
Foster creativity and develop creative problem-solving abilities.
Develop artistic ways of being and habits of mind.
Understand and apply artistic processes such as planning, refining, and creating.
Develop responsible studio behaviors.
Develop visual literacy skills for visual learners in a highly visual world.
Make connections across personal and global life-experiences.
Clay Techniques
Color Mixing
Drawing
Landscape
Mixed Media
Printmaking
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative works of art.
Media practice and planning
Idea planning
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Clay Techniques
Drawing and Painting
Mixed Media/collage
Sculpture
Digital media
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media practice and planning
Idea planning
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Clay Techniques
Drawing and Painting
Landscape
Portraiture
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media planning
Planning
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Drawing and Painting
Mixed Media
Sculpture
Figure (Body) Proportion
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Drawing
Relief sculpture
Mixed Media
Digital Media
Linear Perspective and Spatial strategies
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Whole group discussions
Digital platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Drawing and Painting
Sculpture
Digital media
Mixed Media
Photography
Design
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media planning and reflection
Collaboration
Idea planning and reflection
Whole group discussions
Digital platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
The Grade Five curriculum includes a visit to a Connecticut art museum for the learning and experience of attending an art gallery.
Drawing and Painting
Digital Media and Processes
Sculpture
Mixed Media
Portraiture
Two Point Perspective and Spatial Strategies
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Whole group discussions
Digital Platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art