First+Grade,+2011-12

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 * 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!

__**Language Arts CORE CURRICULUM MAP FOR INTEGRATION, 2011-12:**__ "Crayons" ||< __** NOVEMBER **__ (kites, wind) || (Big Book, School Bus) ||< __** MAY **__ Fine Art, Big Book, p.54 || [|First Grade Core Knowledge] Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for first grade visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM]
 * < __** AUG / SEPTEMBER **__
 * Communities
 * Maps
 * Back to School,
 * Big Book, __Suki's Kimono__
 * North, South,
 * East, West ||< __** OCTOBER **__
 * Ice Age
 * Incas, Mayans, Aztecs
 * Big Book, Rhyme Stew,
 * Jamestown
 * Pilgrims
 * Living things &
 * Habitats ||< __** DECEMBER **__
 * Egypt
 * Mesopotamia
 * Oceans ||< __** JANUARY **__
 * American Slavery
 * Water Cycle
 * What's the Weather?
 * < __** FEBRUARY **__
 * Matter, Solid
 * Liquid, Gas ||< __** MARCH **__
 * 13 colonies
 * Human Body
 * Neighborhoods at Work ||< __** APRIL **__
 * Life Cycles
 * "I Am Responsible"
 * Spanish War
 * Solar System ||< __** JUNE **__
 * Rocks
 * Where Animals Live
 * **Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art** - Express emotions and mood by including facial expressions in art works. Express emotions and mood through color combinations in art works. Demonstrate size by placing large and small objects side by side in works of art.
 * **Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art** - Practice blocking-in, stick figures, gestures, and triangulation as attack skills in making art. Mix primaries colors to create secondary colors. Change the value of colors by mixing black and white into them. Sculpt with any medium.
 * CONTENT GUIDE: ** [[file:VisualArts1010FirstGrade.pdf]]

WEEKLY LESSONS:


 * WEEK OF APRIL 16TH:**

[|OWLS IN THE CITY]

Using tree cookies, students will design the face of the owl. Faces will then be glued on paper - a color of choice. Ears, feathers, feet and details will be added with an assortment of materials. Classroom teacher will design the city scene for the owls to be added.



[|CHERRY BLOSSOM ART] media type="custom" key="14116592" Week of February 27th: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! LESSON: "I like to PAINT Green Eggs & Ham"
 * 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.
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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: WEEKS OF JANUARY 23RD - FEBRUARY 13TH Lesson 1: Color Wheel Pinwheels Lesson 2: Warm & Cool Colors Collage Lesson 3: How to make a Hot Hand Cool December 12th: [|Snowmen AT Night] Printmaking

December 5th: Coca Cola Polar Bears 4 Commercials

September 12th: media type="custom" key="10707006" media type="custom" key="10706986" September 19th: Wallis....pipecleaner snowflakes

September 12th: American Flag August 29th: Four Seasons in a year song media type="custom" key="10303891" A Tree Through the seasons: media type="custom" key="10303905"