Trimester One: Skills and Concepts

Engage in creative art making using observation and investigation.

Explore safe uses of materials, tools and procedures to create works of art or design.

Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for exhibit.

Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.

Compare and contrast images that represent the same subject using art vocabulary.

Compare images that represent the same subject.

Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about a life experience.

Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Art Activities:

All about me sticky note, A color of my own lizard drawing

People Unit:

• • • • Faces- Size, Shape and all the things that belong on a face

      • Body- Size, Shape and movement. No more stick people! Students create an image using real proportions.

      • Grant Wood, American Gothic- Drawing people with a background, introduction to Gothic Architecture and art history.

Gothic Unit:

• • • • Stained glass window- Identifying the classic "Gothic shape" and making connections that the windows tell a story.

      • Illuminated Manuscripts- Illustrating a page from a book from the Gothic time period.

      • Gargoyle -Creating out of clay a sculpture of a gargoyle.

Winter project-

Trimester Two: Skills and Concepts

Engage in creative art making using observation and investigation.

Explore safe uses of materials, tools and procedures to create works of art or design.

Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Categorize art for the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Compare and contrast images that represent the same subject using art vocabulary.

Compare images that represent the same subject.

Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about a life experience.

Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Art Activities:

Leonardo Unit:

• • • • Invention- Creating an invention that makes the world a better place.

      • Leonardo's horse- Studying horse shapes and movement to create a horse sketch and sculpture.

      • Mona Lisa's drawing and painting- Studying the Mona Lisa image and creating a drawing in the similar style, followed with a painting of the Mona Lisa.

      • Machine tracing and shading- Using stencils, students traced machine part to construct a composition that looks like a Leonardo machine with moving parts. Shading lights and dark to make things look 3-D.

      • Birds- Observing birds as Leonardo and creating a unique painting.

Still life-Manipulating objects on a table to create an image using shading of color pencil.

Castle drawing- Discovering the parts of a castle and and understanding why they were built.

Castle landscape/sculpture-Constructing a castle out of clay and creating a landscape for it to be placed on.

Trimester Three: Skills and Concepts

Engage in creative art making using observation and investigation.

Explore safe uses of materials, tools and procedures to create works of art or design.

Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Categorize art for the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Compare and contrast images that represent the same subject using art vocabulary.

Compare images that represent the same subject.

Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about a life experience.

Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Shoe tracing/shading- Tracing an image of a shoe on white paper, transfer the shadows using shading and blending. Experimentation to create a 3-D shoe.

Paul Klee Unit

• • • Alter Klang, Shading- A lesson on Shading light and dark.

    • Cat and bird- After a story about a cat and bird, students will draw Paul Klee's cat step by step then paint.

Warm and Cool colors- Creating two paintings of a city using warm and cool colors.

Eifel Tower- Observe the city of Paris France and learn its history. Students will draw the Eiffel tower how they envision seeing it if they where their in person, determining the time of year and day.

Leonardo Da Vinci studied horses to make his horse sculpture.  Look at these amazing studies of horses done by FIRST graders! 

We learned about Keith Haring  and had so much fun making our own happy dancing people.