Fourth+Grade,+2011-12

media type="custom" key="10076643"media type="custom" key="6896285"BACK TO 2011-2012 Archive 2010-2011 Archive [|Fourth Grade Core Knowledge] __**Language Arts CURRICULUM MAP FOR INTEGRATION, 2011-12:**__ RISKS & CONSEQUENCES VOCAB NATURE'S DELICATE BALANCE related to one another? VOCAB NATURE'S DELICATE BALANCE keep its balance?
 * 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 - the art room is a paper-grading-free zone!
 * < __** AUG / SEPTEMBER **__
 * Why do people take risks?
 * deserted, strive, tangled ||< __** OCTOBER **__
 * What role do you play?
 * How are things in nature
 * energy, circulate ||< __** NOVEMBER **__
 * How does nature

VOCAB fuels, rot ||< __** DECEMBER **__ ||< __** JANUARY **__ CHANGING AMERICA Industrial Revolution
 * predator, food chains,
 * Changes in U.S. over time
 * Gold Rush, Pioneers,

VOCAB permanent || TALL TALES
 * Independence, liberty,
 * < __** FEBRUARY **__ ||< __** MARCH **__ ||< __** APRIL **__ ||< __** MAY **__ ||< __** JUNE **__ ||
 * FABLES

VOCAB connection to art
 * Digital storytelling || SCIENCE FAIR
 * Scientific Method & its

VOCAB US IN OUR LIVES
 * current, pure, drizzly || HOW SCIENCE BENEFITS

VOCAB get U.S. moving?* Major problems faced during the depression & Dust bowl immigrate in the past? Today?
 * genuine, change || AMERICA ON THE MAP
 * How do machines
 * Why did people

VOCAB money choices? much something is worth?
 * transcontinental, local, era, rust || DOLLARS & CENTS
 * How do people make
 * How do we know how

VOCAB Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for fourth grade visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM] =GUIDEBOOK 4TH GRADE= WESTWARD EXPANSION [|TIMELINE] WESTWARD MOVEMENT TIMELINE - SHORTER VERSION
 * pride, fine, discarded, valu ||
 * **Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art** - Practice observing and making art that includes more and more precise details as the school year progresses. Make foreground objects different from one another with contrasts of value, color, and/or texture. Create art based on unusual points of view. Shade with one light source in an artwork.
 * **Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art** - Repeat shapes, colors, and/or objects to lead the eye through a work of art. Emphasize an object by making it contrast with its surroundings. Discuss how the elements and principles help artists express their ideas. Discuss how mood is created in artworks.

WEEKLY LESSONS: MAY:


 * Islamic Art & Calligraphy**


 * WEEK OF MAY 12TH:**
 * ISLAMIC ART PPT: [[file:Islamic art -.pptx]]**

Haiku Print Out
 * WEEK OF APRIL 9TH:**
 * Objectives:**
 * 1) Students will compare and contrast the significance of the cherry blossom compared to the blossoms of other fruit bearing trees.
 * 2) Using a blowing technique, students will create a 2D form of a tree with branches using the oak gall ink made from scratch by the 5th and 6th Graders.
 * 3) Blossoms are added to the branch tips using "tinted" reds and shades of pink.
 * 4) [|Fibonacci numbers] are introduced/reviewed to incorporate for number of petals.
 * 5) Introduce and write Haiku poetry to compliment artwork[|CHERRY BLOSSOM ART]

media type="custom" key="14116592" Week of March 5th and 12th: Paintmaking Week of February 27th: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! LESSON: "I like to PAINT Green Eggs & Ham"
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2.Introduce TINT - when you add white or lighter colors to a bold color, you change the TINT. When you add a darker color or Black to a bold color you change the SHADE (upper grades may add blues) 3.Walk students through the following drawing steps and introduce "CROSS HATCHING" (my turn, your turn style), using black sharpees. 4. Demonstrate mixing white and yellow paint with green to make at least 5 different tints of green. Just squirt a little bit of water in the center of the paint trays or students will use too much water Paint the green eggs and ham. example:

LESSON 1: Color Wheel Pinwheels Lesson 2: Warm & Cool Colors Collage Collage Template for Warm & Cool Colors Blackline of Concentric Circles
 * Week of January 23rd - Week of February 13th: COLOR THEORY **

Color Game Cards Starter Warm & Cool Color Paintings & Weavings Lesson 3: Monochromatic Secondary Colors & High Art Replica

Color Fact Sheets

LESSON 3: Color Theory PPT media type="custom" key="12237656" December 12th: [|Snowmen AT Night] Printmaking

December 5th: Coca Cola Polar Bears 4 Commercials September 12th: American Flag