| Ms. Kusske's class offerings throughout the year |  |
ARTISTIC STANDARD GRADES K-3
In kindergargten through third grades, students work on the Primary Arts and Literature Standard: Artistic Creativity, Performance, and Expression.
Students learn to: - use elements of visual art, including color, line, shape, form, texture, & space
- understand the characteristics of visual art from a variety of cultures and historical times
- use the tools, processes, and techniques of at least three different media
- create original works of art to communicate ideas
KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM:
1. Paintings of animals using geometric shapes with discussion of Marc Chagall: primary colors (red, yellow, or blue) for the animal, secondary colors (orange, violet, and green) for the pattern
2. Painting analogous color squares with object printmaking
3. Impressionist landscapes based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh
4. Inside/Outside Houses: using geometric shapes to draw the outside and the inside of a house
5. Self-portrait: using geometric shapes to draw a person; using watercolor and crayons to add color and pattern to the clothes and body
6. Printmaking, using a relief printing block made with geometric shapes; print was repeated four times
7. Relief blocks based on the work of Louise Nevelson
8. Landscapes painted with watercolors
9. “Once upon a time” books using people or animals as the main characters
FIRST GRADE CURRICULUM
Still life: flowers in a vase. Use paint and collage to create a still life:
line, shape color, texture, pattern and value
multi-media: collage and paint techniques
warm and cool colors
Drawing people: Self portrait and Family portrait
use shapes and lines to draw people
create clothing with details
show facial expression:
geometric shapes
proportion
colored pencils techniques
pattern
Collage and Stencils
View Eric Carle video and discuss Carle’s
technique of collage
Paint paper using two primary colors
Create flowers using hand-painted
paper
Make cards and pictures using
collage and stencil techiniques
Clay animals: create clay animals using forms:
sphere, ovoid, rectangular prism, and coil
Printmaking: create an A/B pattern by printing with two colors, using found objects
Shape creatures: cut paper into shapes, then add details with marker:
cutting and collage techniques
using line to create pattern and details
multi-media: collage and drawing
ARTISTIC STANDARD GRADES 4-5
Intermediate Arts and Literature Standard: Artistic Creativity, Performance, and Expression.
In fourth and fifth grades, students learn to:- use elements, principles, skills, and techniques of at least 3 different media
- understand the elements, including color, line, shape, form, texture, & space; the principles, such as repetition, contrast, or balance; and vocabulary
- understand the cultural or historical forms or traditions of visual arts
- understand how visual arts elements are similar to and different from the elements of other arts areas
- create original works of art to express specific artistic ideas
FIFTH GRADE CURRICULUM
Fifth grade students will explore two and three dimensional art through portraits, still lifes, painting, drawing, relief prints, and clay sculpture. The concepts of composition, line, color, value, form, balance and contrast will be emphasized. History and culture are explored through examining portraits from different cultures and through creating portraits in at least two media.
1. Understanding color:
Students reviewed primary, secondary, warm and cool colors.
2. Monochromatic painting:
Students explored color through taking a section of a still life drawing, enlarging the section, and painting it with monochromatic color. Through this painting, students learned how to create value by:
*mixing tints: one color with increasing amounts of white
*mixing shades: one color with increasing amounts of black
3. Portraits
Students explored representing people through contour drawing with pencil and through portrait busts in clay.
4. Printmaking
Students designed relief blocks - weather stripping or string on cardboard - that reflected African patterns used in fabric, pottery, and architectural design. They made a series of prints using brown paper.
5. Contour Drawing
Students made careful line drawings of still life arrangements, carefully observing edges, proportion, and shape.
ARTISTIC STANDARD GRADES 6-8
Artistic Interpretation
Standard:
The student will:
1. understand how the following components of visual arts are used to convey meaning:
a. elements, including color, line, shape, form, texture, and space;
b. principles, such as repetition, contrast, or balance;
c. vocabulary;
d. styles, such as abstract or impressionist; and
e. structures, such as two dimensional or three dimensional;
2. understand the connection between a visual art work, its purpose, and its cultural and historical contexts;
3. understand how the principles and vocabulary of visual art are similar to and different from other arts areas, such as dance, music, or theater;
4. communicate a personal reaction to works in visual art using the components of visual art; and
5. use criteria to evaluate works of visual art.
Artistic Creativity and Performance
Standard:
The student will:
1. understand the following components of visual art:
a. elements, including color, line, shape, form, texture, and space;
b. principles, such as repetition, contrast, or balance;
c. vocabulary;
d. styles, such as abstract or impressionist; and
e. structures, such as two dimensional or three dimensional;
2. understand technical skills of visual arts, such as selecting and using tools and techniques of the medium;
3. understand how audience and occasion affect artistic choices in creation of visual art;
4. use artistic processes to create in a variety of visual art contexts;
5. express and communicate ideas using the components of visual arts;
6. generate ideas for artistic expression in visual arts;
7. make and explain artistic choices in creating visual art; and
8. use feedback to revise artistic expression in visual art.
SIXTH GRADE CURRICULUM
Self portrait: profile of face
*draw a profile self portrait, using a photograph
*finish with charcoal, shading the darker areas
Gesture Drawing
*explore proportion and gesture through sketching
*use shape (ovals) to create human figures
Light and form
*sketch geometric shapes, shading to give them
form
*add pattern
Perspective
*Draw a table in a room, using one-point
perspective
African Masks
*study African masks: shape and patterns
*create a sketch of a mask
*practice clay techniques by creating a tile
*create a mask from clay, using slab and coil methods; additive and subtractive sculpture
Artist Reports: Research the life, time and art of two artists.
Self portrait: Full figure of self in a setting, doing something that you love to do
*use one point perspective to show space
*use gesture drawing to show a figure in motion
*choose a medium to finish the drawing
AND/OR
Landscape:
*create a landscape, using one point perspective
*finish drawing with shading or colored pencils
Completed masks will be displayed in the case by Ms. Peterseen’s room, 103W.
AND/OR
Pop-up Book:
*create five-page pop-up book showing room interiors with perspective
*draw with black paper; add color with colored pencils
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