Kindergarten

ALL ABOUT ART

Students will start the year learning about all kinds of lines: straight lines, curvy lines, dotted lines, happy lines, sad lines, excited lines and more. Using paint, crayons, markers, glue, scissors, clay, and other exploratory materials. Students will learn how to communicate ideas about themselves and the world around them. We will learn about the elements of art: Line, Color, Shape, Space, Form, Texture, and Value, as well as famous artists in history and our community. examples include: Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder, Rene Magritte, Sol LeWitt and more!.

At the end of kindergarten students will be able to:

Creating

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with art materials.

Problem solve collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.

Identify safe behavior and use of non toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.

Presenting

Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.

Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Responding

Identify uses of art within one’s personal environment.

Describe what an image represents.

Connecting

Create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Identify the purpose of an artwork.

Book List and Art Activity Sample for Kindergarten

The Magical Garden Of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt

Students will view visual images of Monet’s actual garden and paintings. We compare and contrast photographs from paintings and our book, learned about foreground, middle ground and background in creating a landscape and then we will paint like an impressionist.

Pezzettino by Leo Lionni

Art shape unit lesson where students explore geometry concepts with squares. How many squares fit into a larger square? Students then made their own‘ Pezzettino’ animals and environments.

I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait

Continuing our shape unit we use the ladybug projector to project illustrations to whiteboard for student lead interaction in finding shapes and understanding the use of shape in many famous art works.

How the Sun was Made- Como El Sol Nacio by third grade students in Tucson AZ. ,

Students used radial design and cultural connections with Mesoamerica to understand patterns using chalk pastels.

Sector 7 by David Weisner

This all illustration book explores how we understand what is happening in a story though the power of illustration. Invention and science connections were explored as we viewed cloud shapes and thought about how to ‘invent’ clouds.

Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh

Students learn about mixing the primary colors: red, blue, yellow to create secondary colors: purple, green, orange.

Sandy’s Circus, A story about Alexander Calder by Tanya Lee Stone

Students will about the proportions of the human figure to create ‘Calder clown’ paintings and create fun and playful sculptural art. New vocabulary words include: mobile, stabile, three-dimensional.

Magritte's Marvelous Hat by D.B. Johnson

Students will learn about the surrealist movement in art and use use their imaginations to make a surrealist painting inspired by artist Rene Magritte.