GRADE+6

//GRADE K// //GRADE 1 GRADE 2 GRADE 3 GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6// =***NEW**= Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for sixth grade visual arts:** = =
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 * Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art **- Express a variety of moods by controlling the overall value of a work of art. Create more realistic cast shadows and shading. Create an illusion of depth by applying the rules of linear perspective and aerial perspective. Prepare and organize steps and materials to create art.**
 * Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art **- Observe and learn how artists have used the horizon line as the eye-line. Learn the three properties of color and some basic color relationships. Discuss how social conditions; politics, available technologies and other contextual forces may have influenced important artworks.**

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 * [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM]**

**GUIDEBOOK 6TH GRADE [[file:g6.pdf]]**
SIDE by SIDE TEACHER (or SUBSTITUTE) RESPONSIBILITY:
 * 1) Be Present and involved in teaching art lesson - pitching in when appropriate
 * 2) Use BEST classroom management practices
 * 3) Sit within close proximity of students during demonstrations
 * 4) Make all possible connections with ART lesson and your CURRICULUM
 * 5) Participate in your own art-making along with your students
 * 6) Help specialist when asked

WEEK OF JUNE 2ND: 4TH, 5TH, & 6TH GRADE ART EVALUATIONS
WEEK OF MAY 26TH: **Finish the Picture - trading card technique**

WEEK OF MAY 4TH-WEEK OF MAY 18TH:
May 11th-make cards ATCs: [| Intro to Artist Trading Cards in the classroom] [|Materials] List [|Art in Your Pocket] - how to get started [|Samples]**
 * May 4th - make card collection boxes after intro

**WEEK OF APRIL 27TH: [[file:Children's Drawing Contest A.pdf]] . 2nd -6th Graders need to produce an entry for this contest.**

 * **RESOURCES**

**WEEK OF MARCH 9TH: SELF PORTRAITS:**
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2nd - 23rd: **Sketchbooks needed - assemble vases and Egyptian beads** WEEK OF JANUARY 26TH: **Chamber of Commerce video**
 * **STUDENTS need to come with a photo print out of a self portrait. The portrait needs to be in color.**
 * VOCABULARY - line design, symbolism, Egyptian paste, perspective
 * SKETCHBOOK - line designs around a symbol
 * PROJECT - After glazing clay vases with mayalica glaze, students will carve a symbolic Egyptian pattern from the vase. Decorative beads will be made out of Egyptian paste. Take a look at some ancient European pottery. Start self portraits.
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT - Glazing Egyptian vases.

WEEK OF JANUARY 20TH:
Transformation of "Literature Trees" for Family Night (in classrooms). Teachers may use the art space for this project if needed. Pick up your trees on the stage if you had me prime them for you. WEEK OF JANUARY 12TH: WEEK OF JANUARY 5TH: **CLAY PROJECTS - no aprons necessary (their choice)**
 * Students only need sketchbooks - no aprons or portfolios. We will be glazing our clay vases.**
 * VOCABULARY: Egyptian Paste, Egyptian vases
 * SKETCHBOOK - necessary
 * PROJECT: Egyptian vases with handles made out of R-2 red clay

WEEK OF DECEMBER 15THNO ART CLASS THIS WEEK WEEK OF DECEMBER 8TH: **sketchbooks & portfolios - your call on aprons**
 * VOCABULARY - texture rubbings, oil pastels, blending, space design
 * SKETCHBOOK - sketch geometric design from last week
 * PROJECT - students will produce a texture rubbing with oil pastels and blenders and apply a paint medium to add depth. Patterns will be added with oil pastels to the glue patterns.

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10TH:
 * GRID ART:
 * Billy Bear's [|Draw What You See]
 * Artist drawing [|grids]
 * Value Grid Drawing [|Portraits]
 * LITERATURE - [|THE DOT]

WEEK OF OCTOBER 20TH:
 * VOCABULARY - collage, surface texture, abstract art, altered art
 * SKETCHBOOK - none
 * PROJECT - "Altered Art" (website)

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29TH: music theory, kandinsky, Students will interpret different musical pieces through expression of mood and color in a painting.
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22ND: CLAY WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15TH: CLAY
 * VOCABULARY - kiln, firing, greenware, bisqueware, glazes, antiquing
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT - glaze cartouches and beads, Film of Sawdust Fired Pottery
 * VOCABULARY - clay, texture, book tablet plates, handling clay, cartouche
 * SKETCHBOOK - a sketch of a personalized design of a historical book plate
 * PROJECT - applying texture to clay, applying a personalized design on a clay surface

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8TH: mark-making, observation, blind contour, modified contour, value, line holding a drawing tool, filling a page, Handling clay Planning for a clay project Pam, I need to know if you have clay for the whole grade level? And I thought we would plan what they are going to do for the project - do some sketching of it, and have the clay rolled out for the next week. I don't have any clay yet, but I COULD probably have it by the end of the week. WEEK OF AUGUST 25TH:** //sketchbook, portfolio, line// line //make portfolios//
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT
 * - Could we start our Clay Tablet Books this week? I have the clay!!! Pam
 * Power Point of Art Room Procedures
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT