In Elementary art, the elements and principles of art are learned through exploration.  Students form an understanding of basic concepts and fundamental knowledge built on processes, techniques, and materials utilizing developmentally appropriate vocabulary.  Students are provided opportunities for self-expression, employing a variety of artist’s styles, as well as an introduction to the history of art in society.

• Kindergarten- Students begin to explore the use of line and form in the environment and the relation of line and form to art.  Manipulative skills are developed through the creation of artworks using a variety of materials.  Students begin to identify and develop simple subjects and ideas about their own and others artwork.

• Grade 1- Students explore the natural and human-made environment identifying similarities, differences, and variations in texture, form, and line; using a variety of these to create original artworks.  Emphasis is on discovering drawing through line, in conjunction with discovering form, value, and texture through line.

• Grade 2- Students begin to express ideas and feelings in original artworks by utilizing a variety of colors, forms, and lines with the emphasis on line and shape.  Art elements and principals are introduced.  Students begin to identify stories and constructions in constructions in a variety of artworks and define reasons for preferences in personal artworks.  Various types of careers in are identified.

• Grade 3- Students will study the elements and principles of art focusing on color, line, pattern, and rhythm. A variety of compositions will be created emphasizing types of line, how line expresses feeling and 2-D geometric and organic forms. Students will use simple criteria to identify main ideas in original artworks and works from major artists.

• Grade 4- Students will communicate ideas about self, family, school, and community in original artworks through integration of sensory knowledge and life experiences as well as previous learning of the elements and principles of art.  Students will use line, shape, and color to communicate ideas gleaned from nature and man-made environments.  Artworks from a variety of cultural settings will be analyzed and simple main ideas identified.

• Grade 5- Production of artworks and discussion will focus on line, shape, and color in relation to incorporating ideas about self, family, school, and community into original artworks.  Students will describe intent and interpret ideas and moods forming conclusions about personal artworks and the work of others.