5th&6th Grade Art Room

Grading is done on ATTITUDE, not TALENT, so the atmosphere is relaxed and everyone has a great time! Take time to check out the Grading Policy page and the Art Room Rules page.

GRADING POLICY

ART ROOM RULES

WELCOME!

You've arrived! You are finally the biggest kids at the school. All the best projects and coolest supplies are saved for the oldest students in the school, as you are finally old enough to use them!

Student artists take on full responsibility for their own creative art making process as we work in a Choice Based art room. The goal is for students to learn artistic behaviors rather than for everyone to make the same teacher-driven art project. Some of the important concepts students will be learning are stretching and exploring within a media, expressing their own thoughts, ideas, and emotions in their work, focusing on their work, working through mistakes, observing the world around them closely, and reflecting on their own artistic practices. As you can see, this is a great deal more than just coloring and pasting!

5th grade curriculum

Drawing - One Point Perspective
- Learn the vocabulary associated with perspective drawing; horizon line, vanishing point, orthogonal lines, vertical, horizontal, perpendicular, parallel
- Create a one-point perspective drawing
Painting - Watercolor
- Review the 3 controls of watercolor: water, pigment, brush
- use additives; salt, scraping, rubbing alcohol, resist
- create a watercolor painting using washes and layering
Ceramics - Slab Construction
- Review attachments
- build a ceramic form using slabs
- glaze a ceramic form

6th grade curriculum

Drawing - Two Point Perspective
- Review vocabulary used in perspective drawing; horizon line, vanishing points, orthogonal lines, vertical, parallel
- Create a two-point perspective drawing
Painting - Watercolor
- review the 3 controls of watercolor
- review the use of additives
- use tape to attach the watercolor paper to a substrate
- Create watercolor paintings using washes and layering
Ceramics - Synthesize
- review the 3 hand building techniques: pinch pot, coil, slab
- review attachments
- Build a ceramic form using any, some, or all of the hand building techniques
- Glaze a clay form

Connections to 5th and 6th Grade Art

If you are looking for inspiration for artwork at home, check out the links below to go to web pages dedicated to each studio center focused on types of media*.

*media means what you made it with