6th,2009-2010

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:**
 * 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 MAY 17TH:
finish glazing - review trading tradition & introduce two new card making techniques

WEEK OF MAY 10TH:
Glaze clay projects

WEEK OF MAY 3RD:
BRING SKETCHBOOKS & 8 STATEMENTS, trading card boxes. Students will design a clay medallion representing themselves.

WEEK OF APRIL 26TH:
Lesson on gesture drawing - come with sketchbooks and portfolios
 * Springville Museum of Art** Guest Teachers:

WEEK OF MARCH 15TH:
[|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.

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: Bring portfolios with everything in them
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 * Completion of Tessellations. Here is an example of the possible patterns necessary for this product to be a true tessellation

INTRO to collage - something you could work on next week
 * Visit the collage wiki page for resources
 * http://art4cast.wikispaces.com/AlTERED+ART

Week of February 8th:
Using Primary colors with black and white to create interesting secondary colors. Paint masks for installation. Bring tessellations for completion.

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

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] > Drawing the horse and composing with overlapping How to draw a[| horse head] How to draw [|the horse]
 * WEEK OF DEC EMBER 14TH:**
 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 7TH: Painting Laurel Burch horses using the 3 properties of color**
 * Hue, Value, intensity
 * 1) Hue: color in purest form
 * 2) Value: shades and tints of a color -Shade: color when any amount of black is added to it
 * 3) Tint: color when any amount of white is added to it.
 * 4) Intensity: the color formed when mixing 1 color with the color oppisite of it on the color wheel.
 * WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30TH:**
 * WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9TH:**
 * Celebrating the role of the horse in World and United States**
 * Laurel Burch [|slideshow]**

WEEK OF OCTOBER 12TH: [|HALLOWEEN AVATARS]
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**WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21ST:**

 * BEST [|KULER WHEEL] IN THE WORLD


 * COLOR THEORY WORKSHEET[[file:Color Theory.isf]]

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14TH:

 * Drawing faces
 * COMPOSING WITH COLLAGE
 * TELLING A STORY THROUGH ART
 * [[file:collage.pptx]]

WEEK OF AUGUST 24TH:

 * BLIND CONTOUR DRAWINGS OF SUNFLOWERS AND A BICYCLE
 * MAKE CALLIGRAPHS FOR FROTTAGE COLLECTIONS

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