Second Grade

Trimester One: Skills and Concepts

Brainstorm and implement multiple approaches, materials, and tools to solve an art or design problem driven by personal interests and curiosity or to re-purpose objects to make something new. Experiment with various materials and tools while demonstrating safe use of materials, tools, and procedures to create works of art or design. Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others. Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation. Identify mood and expressive properties suggested by a work of art. Categorize images based on expressive properties. Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about events in home, school or community life. Compare and contrast cultural uses of artworks from different times and places.

Art Activities:

Animal cutouts- Creative story telling through a picture.
3-D UnitFill a jar- Drawing cylinders and adding something in the jar. Wayne Thiebaud, Cake drawing - Cylinders that stack, making the decoration curve with the cake and making an interesting background.Cupcake oil pastels- Learning how to notice how light hits things. Light and dark shading.Contour lines- Making a gumball machine-Using one line, creating a gumball machine that looks 3-D and painting it.Edward HopperLight house- Creating a landscape and building a 3-D lighthouse. Night Hawks- Building and designing a 3-D store.
George E. OhrBuilding a pinch pot-Learning about artist George E. Ohr.Picasso Cubism Self-Portrait- Transforming our faces into cubism. Student study on "The Three Musicians"Cave of Lascaux and how it inspired Picasso

Trimester Two: Skills and Concepts

Brainstorm and implement multiple approaches, materials, and tools to solve an art or design problem driven by personal interests and curiosity or to re-purpose objects to make something new. Experiment with various materials and tools while demonstrating safe use of materials, tools, and procedures to create works of art or design. Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others. Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation. Analyze how are exhibited inside and outside of school contributes to communities. Identify mood and expressive properties suggested by work of art. Categorize images based on expressive properties. Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about events in home, school or community life. Compare and contrast cultural uses of artworks from different times and places.

Art Activities:

Zentangles- creating patterns and designs that create a calming arrangement Art yogaVan Gogh unitChair- Discussion about who Van Gogh was as a person and Artist. Students will examine his "Chair Painting" and will create a drawing of it in their own style. Chair sculpture- Chair history and chair build out of clayBed room- Drawing Van Gogh's room Starry night-Oil pastel experimentation

Trimester Three: Skills and Concepts

Brainstorm and implement multiple approaches, materials, and tools to solve an art or design problem driven by personal interests and curiosity or to re-purpose objects to make something new. Experiment with various materials and tools while demonstrating safe use of materials, tools, and procedures to create works of art or design. Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others. Distinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation. Analyze how are exhibited inside and outside of school contributes to communities. Identify mood and expressive properties suggested by work of art. Categorize images based on expressive properties. Create art that tells a story or expresses a mood about events in home, school or community life. Compare and contrast cultural uses of artworks from different times and places. Art Activities:
Color Theory Paint the Town story book- Color theory, 3-D shapes and drawing a City scape Hand tracing- complimentary colors, design and patterns
3-D paper Sculpture- Sculpture building techniques, using different kinds of paper and folding strategies to build a sculpture out of paper keeping in mind color Theory and how it can enhance your mode or feeling you are trying to convey.
Salvador Dali- Elephant drawing, marker techniques. Melting clock clay sculpture.Blue dog- Why is Blue dog blue? Story book: Creating a "Blue dog" showing Science vocabulary.