2nd,2009-2010

GRADE K //GRADE 1 GRADE 2 GRADE 3 GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6// == Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for second grade visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM] [|A prezi on THE ART TRUCK]When you click on this link, the presentation will appear. Your controls are in the bottom right hand corner. Thanks to Pam Johnson for this creation. =GUIDEBOOK SECOND GRADE=
 * **Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art** - Express warm and cool ideas and things through warm and cool colors. Use an event important to the students as a subject. Create landscapes that show depth by overlapping. Display some textures in landscapes.
 * **Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art** - Create art that has a use such as a vase, pencil holder, etc. Consider why artworks are grouped in a museum. Discuss why artists used warm and cool colors.
 * CONTENT GUIDE **: [[file:VisualArts1020SecondGrade.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 MAY 17TH:
glaze masks (give me one week to get them back to you) paint nests and take home (no glazing)

WEEK OF MAY 10TH:
Clay projects

WEEK OF MAY 3RD:
ATCs - decorate and finish boxes. Rules for Artist Trading Cards - making and trading

WEEK OF APRIL 26TH:
Drawing and painting a roadrunner - take off from the Principal's book of the month.

Week of March 15th:
Use this link (a presentation will be available on Monday) to prepare your class for the ART TRUCK experience on art night. I will have the strings and tags ready for you to create with your kids. K, 1st, and 2nd grade will do a tag as a class. 3rd-6th grades will have a tag for each student.

Week of March 8th:
Student collages: Lower grades - self portraits, Upper grades - theme based, roughing up any shiny surface papers and adding embellishments.
 * CRAFTSMANSHIP ENCOURAGED
 * MULTI MEDIUMS USED

Week of February 22nd:

 * Family postcards - Where would you love to be with your family??? Capture it.
 * Crayon and water color resist

Week of February 8th:
Add details to origami animals for installation. Learn how to create a 4 page card for a special Valentine

Weeks of January 25th and February 1st:
Welcome [|Matthew Jones], our Artist in Resident for the next two weeks. Here are some great sites to use in your classrooms the week you will not be coming to Matthew: [|Albright Knox Art Games] - great to use with direct instruction/interaction and a projector for lower grades Origami Folding instruction videos I have downloaded some origami folding videos for the wiki. The first one is a must do for all grade levels - the younger the kids, the larger square of paper you should use. For eMINTS classrooms....An interactive [|Sumi painting] program where students can practice with tools, strokes, and color - a product from this would be great for art night. Lower grades could do this with whole class - would be fun

WEEK OF JAN. 11TH:
Marking paper for origami prep

WEEK OF JAN. 4TH:
Gesture drawing of human body, charcoal, need sketchbooks

**WEEK OF DEC EMBER 14TH:**
Santa hat Stitch Pattern Santa Suit [|Webquest] =WINTER FUN:= SNOWMAN GLYPH [|SNOW SITES] [|Snow Crystals] [|Frosty Jokes] [|Snowdays] [|Make a Flake] Clip of the [|Nutcracker]

**WEEK OF DECEMBER 7TH:**

 * Creating tin ornaments - Mexican Folk Art

**WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30TH:**

 * PAINTMAKING WITH COLORED CHALK
 * MAKING SECONDARY COLORS
 * Painting cards

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9TH:
[|FALLING BACK IN SPACE]: (Students will include placement of earth, sun & moon)

WEEK OF OCTOBER 12TH:
[|Witch Hats] AND GHOSTS WITH SHAPER PAPER

**WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21ST:**

 * Ode to Matisse [|mural]
 * Matisse Poster

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14TH:

 * BRING PORTFOLIOS AND SKETCHBOOKS IF YOU HAVE SKETCHBOOKS
 * WATERCOLOR LAUREL BURCH CATS USING EITHER WARM OR COOL COLORS
 * DOODLING WITH CONTOUR LINES
 * TWO HANDED DRAWINGS
 * UPSIDE DOWN DRAWINGS

WEEK OF AUGUST 31ST:

 * Bring Portfolios
 * Line designs and patterns
 * Warm up with lines and patterns
 * Laurel Burch Cats [|Art Projects for Kids]
 * [|Sample Site of Lesson]
 * Lines & Patterns[[file:LINES+&+PATTERNS.pdf]]

WEEK OF AUGUST 24TH:

 * Blind contour drawings of sunflowers
 * Blending primary colors to achieve secondary colors
 * Van Gogh

WEEK OF AUGUST 17TH:

 * FINISH PORTFOLIOS WITH COLOR & SHAPE
 * INTRODUCE/REVIEW ELEMENTS OF ART
 * EXPLORE WITH PAPER AND TEXTURE RUBBINGS

WEEK OF AUGUST 10TH:

 * ART ROOM PROCEDURES
 * MAKE STUDENT PORTFOLIOS AND A CLASS PORTFOLIO
 * PERSONALIZE PORTFOLIOS