I’m a big believer in choice in art. While I do have a curriculum that I follow, all grades will be given some choice in all their works of art, whether it’s in the materials they want to use or the subject matter they decide to demonstrate their learning. Below, please find is the first trimester curriculum by grade level.

Kindergarten: Exploring art materials, learning basic shapes and colors. Learning art room expectations.

“I can learn and explore in art.”

First grade: Using visual vocabulary to tell a story.

“I can tell a story using pictures.” or “I can use pictures to tell a story.”

Second grade: Observation and Still Life.

“I can create a still life.”

Third grade: Personal function in art: Individual ideas, emotions and feelings.

“I can create art that relates to me.”

Fourth grade: Imagination, Invention and Abstraction.

“I can create art using my imagination.”

Fifth grade: Visual Problem Solving: Design and Composition.

“I can design a composition in art using the Elements of Art.”

Kindergarten: Exploring art materials, learning basic shapes and colors. Learning art room expectations.

“I can learn my shapes.”

First grade: Patterns and repetition in art.

“I can create repeating patterns in my art.”

Second grade: Facial porportion and emotion.

“I can create a portrait.”

Third grade: Practical function in art: Architecture.

“I can create a structure.”

Fourth grade: Landscapes: How do artists break the rules?

“I can create a landscape with a foreground, middle ground and background.”

Fifth grade: Human form and movement.

“I can create the human form and movement in my art."

Kindergarten: Exploring art materials, learning basic shapes and colors. Learning art room expectations.

“I can create art using shapes.”

First grade: Steps in the artmaking process.

“I can create art that has many steps.”

Second grade: Landscapes: Creating space with a foreground, middle ground, background.

“I can create a landscape.”

Third grade: Social and Cultural Functions of Art: Honoring/Remembering/Teaching

“I can create art that honors, remembers and teaches.”

Fourth grade: Aspects of Color

“I can create art using monochromatic colors.”

Fifth grade: Exploring Value and Perspectives.

“I can create a one point perspective."