Trimester One: Skills and Concepts

Art activity:

What is ART? Lets visit the Louvre!

• • • • Art history, seeing all the things that make up fine art! Weaving, sculpture, pottery, drawing, Painting and a verity of cultures.

      • Creating our own museum, introduction to perspective.

Sidewalk Rescue

• • • • Exploring creativity and imagination using oil pastels.

Paul Klee

• • • • Cat and bird-shapes.

      • Magic fish-underwater creative shapes and painting.

      • Castle in the Sun- Shapes and coloring to create a building.

Animals of the Salish Sea

• • • • Creating a Salish Sea design of a animal.

      • Totem poles- moving North from the Salish Sea, students will create a totem pole that tells a story.

Trimester two: Skills and Concepts

Art activity:

The little white owl

• • • • Creating a picture story with owls to develop an image using a horizon line, trees and animal habitat.

POP art unit!

• • • • Introduction to POP ART - creating a food sculpture inspired by art such as the "Spoon Bridge and Cherry" in Minneapolis.

      • Patterns and Color- through experimentation students created patterns to make in interesting POP ART design on a pre-made cherry image. We experimented with colors, all types of lines that enhanced our composition.

      • Name art- using our names students created art that shows creative self expression. They used patterns, lines and color to illustrate their own style of art making.

Bekele the un-imaginary friend

• • • • Using their imagination students will invent an imaginary friend. They will draw their friend and create an adventure that they are doing together.

      • With problem solving and experimentation threw doing, students will create their imaginary friend out of clay.

Seeing Shapes around us

• • • • Incorporating shapes into a drawing from a magazine. discussion on horizon lines in nature and similarities when making a rooms. They will identify shapes, cut and glue onto paper, then draw an image around the shapes to create a story or a mood.

Trimester three: Skills and Concepts

Art activity:

Maps

• • • • USA Map- Tracing the USA Map to understand the shape of our country and painting it in the style of Jasper Johns.

      • South Dakota map- Learning about South Dakota landmarks, creating their own sculpture.

      • Map of their neighborhood-Discovering local art in their community and creating a map of where it is located.

Harvey Dunn- Identifying South Dakota artist Harvey Dunn and formulating their own representation of his painting "The Prairie is my Garden".

Plein air Artist- Understanding of Plein air painting and drawing and will create their own piece of artwork, as well as learn about two Plein air artists.