Art

Curriculum

First Quarter

• Kindergarten - self portraits, shapes, patterns, cutting skills
• First Grade - color mixing, primaries, secondaries
• Second Grade - expressions, Native American shields, painting, cutting skills
• Third Grade - pointillism (artist George Seurat)
• Fourth Grade - silhouettes, watercolors
• Fifth Grade - faces, watercolors, radical designs, cutting skills

Second Quarter

• Kindergarten - drawing, painting using brush correctly
• First Grade - torn paper, pastel pots, painting values
• Second Grade - balancing, aluminum tooling, cut paper, inventive animals
• Third Grade - negative line, Henri Matisse painting, snow figures
• Fourth Grade - scratch paper, aluminum snowflakes
• Fifth Grade -  relief faces, painting, positive/negative faces

Third Quarter

• Kindergarten - Magic marker explosions, Watercolor, Cutting, Artist Mondrian
• 1st Grade - Textures, Watercolor resist, Static & fluid line
• 2nd Grade - Textures, Collage, I search calendar contest, Artist Grant Wood
• 3rd Grade - Contour and gesture drawing, Printing, Weaving, 3rd Grade Art Night
• 4th Grade - Tessellations, I search calendar contest, Mosaic and construction
• 5th Grade - Paper mache masks -paste, construct, paint and embellish, Perspective