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What's Happening in Art Class?

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
-Students will be exploring color, line, shape, form, value, texture, and spaces. Through various art like experiences from city scrapes to slithering shakes. Watercolor to mosaics and clay.

--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
-Fish is the 3rd grade theme. Many of their projects will revolve around fish. Fish will be their inspiration. 1st quarter will have them creating a large complimentary fish, reviewing value in drawing fish, learning to use scratch paper, drawing and painting a full still life, creating a pinch pot fish, and learning about aboriginal art.

--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
-Insects rule in 4th grade art. Students will work on drawing insects of their choice, showing value and size. From drawing, the insect will be transferred to scratch board; always a favorite. Fall comes quickly with fall Haiku and water color.

--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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