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What's Happening in Art Class?

Students in the elementary art program grades K-4 are learning to let their imaginations run wild when they create their art.

Goals for grades 2-4
-To engage students in art like activities
-To learn specific art skills
-To learn specific art concepts
-To demonstrate knowledge of media
-To allow students to express themselves
-To help develop life long hobbies

2nd Grade
-Grade 2 will look at portraits and how to make a portrait of themselves. They will be learning wet into wet watercolor techniques to create a city scape, where they will also learn about perspective and how to show this in their city scape. Snake will be on the agenda and students will learn about them and their habitats. Don't let them scare you. Watercolor techniques in general will be reviewed in a watercolor painting about fall showing a landscape. Mosaics will be discussed and they will create a mosaic around Thanksgiving.

--City-Scapes and water color
--Caterpillars
--Leaf Frottage
--Dinosaurs
--Overlapping and still-life
--Fall in Watercolor
--Drawing skills
--Mosaics and turkeys
--Clay  pinch pot animals
--Story books
--Horn of plenty and pilgrims
--Stained glass windows in cathedrals & Artist George Chegaull
--Molds
--Masks
--Sculpture
--Snakes
--Collages
--Use of crayons and markers to create art
--Bats
--Designing a puzzle
--Print making with sand paper
--Jungle art and Henri Rousseau
--Complimentary colors and water color
--Still life of flowers and Van Gogh
--Creating art from a recycled can
--Positive negative space

3rd Grade
-This is the age when children start to look and use realistic images.
Learned about portraits and where the correct place was for the facial features. They reviewed primary, secondary and complimentary colors in a hand trace design project. They will review the pinch pot technique to create a fish using the pinch pot method. They will also review making sure clay bodies to clay bodies is used so their fish doesn't fall apart.
Line, pattern, and color will be reviewed in a complimentary fish design. Cutting skills will be reviewed in the form of a new project called fish eyes. Drawing skills will be worked on in drawing a still life showing gourds and pumpkins. They will then learn about acrylic paint and how to blend colors to make a flat drawing look 3-D.

--Patterns
--Complimentary colors
--Clay pinch pot technique sculpted into a fish
--Drawing and learning to shade showing values  Fish
--Scratch art
--Painting a still life with acrylic paint
--Marker art
--Relief printing
--Drawing
--Artist: Van Gogh
--Coats of arms Sculpture with model magic
--Line Texture color
--Creating cards
--Perspective background middle ground and foreground
--Abstract art profiles and artist Picasso
--Optical art and weaving
--Tearing to create art
--Architecture and tree houses
--Frottage
--Starry night by Van Gogh
--Wearable art
--Grid art and getting bigger
--Drawing skills

4th Grade
-Children at this stage of development start to move from simplistic and isolated narratives to more sophisticated narratives. They start to develop more fine motor skills and their perceptual awareness increases. Their need to know the techniques on how to create something starts at this age because when they draw or make something they want it to look real.
The first quarter will find students investigating on what a book is. How to write and create their own Fall Haiku. Drawing will be stressed throughout the quarter. They will review value and shading. They will look at insects to help create art like activities, and learn watercolor techniques in creating a fall watercolor painting.

--Drawing and review of shading insects
--Scratch art
--Creating a treasure box and quilling
--Tissue paper Fall haiku
--Water color and overlapping
--Drawing skills
--Watercolor techniques
--Wearable art
--Still life
--Poster art and Toulouse-Lautrec
--Printing creating with sticky foam and pattern
--Review of Polleck marbel painting Lettering
--Stained glass
--Designing with complimentary colors
--Soft sculpture
--Relief printing
--Mask from other cultures
--Clay coiling technique
--Sculpting with model magic
--Warm and cool colors
--Wet on wet weave
--Pointillism and Seurat
--Pattern and color
--Under a magnifying glass

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