August/September: All Monaview students are trained in art expectations.
Students will learn about the art process and make a portfolio or sketchbook.
Kindergarten and First graders will study lines and shapes to build a paper house.
Second are perfecting their scissor skills by making several paper collages.
Third graders are making a folk art landscape inspired by painter Heather Galler.
Fourth and Fifth graders are studying color and value and will create their best color wheel yet!
October:
Kindergarten and first graders will make a self-portrait
Second and third graders will make color wheels and value scales.
Fourth graders are studying Landscape art which is our Student Learning Objective.
Fifth graders studied shapes and symmetry.
November/ December:
Kindergarten and first graders painted color wheels and rainbows.
Second and third graders studied warm and cool colors. They made a Fall composition with oil pastels and chalk pastels.
Fourth graders extended their Landscape study with a painting inspired by Claude Monet.
Fifth graders studied Mexican Folk art and made a Huichol yarn painting.
January/ February:
Kindergarten and first graders are studying positive and negative space. Kindergarten made a hot cocoa collage, and first grade made a mitten catching a snowflake.
Second graders are studying Faith Ringgold, an African American artist from Harlem, New York. Students read her book, "Tar Beach" and made a cityscape collage.
Third graders are studying Jonathan Green, an African American artist from Beaufort, South Carolina. Students are making a mixed media Landscape.
Fourth graders are studying Metapec suns from Mexico. They will make a 2D painted sun, and a 3D clay sun.
Fifth graders are studying pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. They are making a dessert painting inspired by his work.
March/April:
Kindergarten artists are studying patterns and refining their coloring skills. They observed patterns from nature such as cheetah prints and wavy lines in the sand in a desert. Their upcoming project will be a lion drawing.
First grade artists learned about Aboriginal art from Australia. They viewed pictures of the Australian Outback and learned how to draw a Platypus and a Sea turtle. Their next project is a guitar collage inspired by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
Second graders studied French artist Henri Rousseau. He was a self-taught artist who loved painting jungle scenes. Second graders will next learn to draw the Eiffel tower from Paris, France.
Third graders are still studying art that connects to South Carolina history. They learned to draw traditional porcelain teacups and got to make one out of clay. Their next SC history project is learning to draw Rainbow Row from Charleston.
Fourth grade is studying Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. Their replicating his "circles" series with oil pastels.
Fifth grade is in the middle of a science integration project. They studied habitats and ecosystems from around the world, drew them, and sculpted them out of clay. Their next project is TBD.