KINDERGARTEN

//GRADE K// //GRADE 1 GRADE 2 GRADE 3 GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6// == Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for kindergarten visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM] =GUIDEBOOK PRE-K = =GUIDEBOOK KINDERGARTEN =
 * **Making Art and Expressing Meaning in Art** - Use the five senses as a subject and as a means of discovery in making art. Use scissors and glue/paste shapes to background.
 * **Appreciating and Decoding Meaning in Art** - Tell stories about artworks. Organize colors into primaries and color families.
 * CONTENT GUIDE: ** [[file:VisualArts1000Kindergarten.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**:

**WEEK OF MAY 26TH**: Kandinsky color studies [[file:colorkandinsky.ppt]] Watercolor with musical chairs

 * WEEK OF MAY 18th: Still life paintings

Powerpoint on Still life:

WEEK OF MAY 4TH:** EWER - Make color transfer cards with envelopes - desks need to be cleared Hoffman - Tissue Paper Flowers for clay baskets Smith - Online 3d, with PM class WEEK OF MARCH 16TH:** Bring portfolios and sketchbooks - We will glaze pots on the 23rd - even though there is no art class next week. http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/drawex.shtml
 * WEEK OF APRIL 27TH**: Tissue paper flowers for clay baskets for Mother's Day
 * WEEK OF APRIL 20TH: Online Art
 * LITERATURE - http://www.lookybook.com/mainpage.php?name_id=1269
 * VOCABULARY - shapes, following directions, space usage, design, color play, COLLABORATIVE ART MAKING
 * SKETCHBOOK - following directions
 * PROJECT - Students will create a panel of an "Up Above Scene" and a "Down Below Scene".
 * WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9TH - 23rd:** - need panels of Antarctica - no sketchbooks or portfolios. Teachers need to bring any resources they have on Antarctica life and landscape. Smith - your A.M. and P.M. will work share one set of panels.
 * VOCABULARY - warm and cool colors, craftsmanship, collaboration
 * SKETCHBOOK - penguins - Mark Kistler Art Lesson
 * PROJECT - students will tear and glue color paper to create a landscape of water, ice and sky to their panels. Student photographs will be taken to add to penguins
 * WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2ND:** Students need sketchbooks and portfolios - no aprons. We need to finish primary, secondary color blending on caterpillars. Some finished, some didn't. I have one class set in my room - don't know who it belongs to.
 * VOCABULARY - collaborative (group) artmaking, Antarctica, horizon line, warm and cool colors
 * SKETCHBOOK - "Penguin Party"
 * PROJECT - Students will work with a partner to create a class mural of Antarctica. Partners will be assigned a panel with guiding marks for connecting the horizon lines. They will sketch a penguin and an explorer and think about what flag they would like their explorer to be carrying.

BEGIN collaborative art project
 * WEEK OF JANUARY 26TH:** All classes will watch the Chamber of Commerce video highlighting what our partners do for us. You need to bring unfinished caterpillars if you didn't finish. I have a class set in the art room but I'm not sure whose they are. Some classes finished and some didn't.
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK - "PENGUIN PARTY"
 * PROJECT - finish up color study with caterpillars
 * WEEK OF FEBRUARY 3RD:**

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:** No aprons - need sketchbooks and portfolios
 * VOCABULARY - color theory -
 * SKETCHBOOK - color wheel -
 * PROJECT - "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" - Using watercolor crayons, student will color their own drawing of a caterpillar using only primary colors and then blend the color with water brushes to create secondary colors


 * WEEK OF JANUARY 5TH:** No aprons needed (I don't think - see what you think). Please bring the oil pastel alphabet project we were working on with you. Kerry- I know I have yours'. I will have them for you. Mrs. Smith - don't worry about it - we will pick up where we left off. Just bring your kids!
 * VOCABULARY - color theory, primary colors, complimentary colors, analogous colors, colors you like
 * SKETCHBOOK - necessary - please bring portfolios
 * PROJECT - we are blending their oil pastel alphabet to experience how two colors make other colors. Then doing 4 drawings of the same drawing lesson to complete an exercise on color theory.

NO ART
 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 15TH**
 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 8TH:** Portfolios & sketchbooks - you decide on aprons (oil pastels)
 * VOCABULARY- shape, organic, geometric
 * SKETCHBOOK - some ABCs
 * PROJECT - using oil pastels, students will create a page of geometric and organic shapes drawing the letters of the alphabet

[|High Sky]
 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 1ST:** Need portfolios, sketchbooks and aprons
 * VOCABULARY - organic and geometric lines
 * SKETCHBOOK - drawing stars and moons,
 * PROJECT - painting of a lion using organic and geometric shapes


 * WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10TH:** - Need sketchbooks and aprons
 * VOCABULARY - color families, seasons, animals
 * SKETCHBOOK - using basic shapes, sketch a turkey
 * PROJECT - Using acrylic paints, draw and paint a large turkey, glue feathers of different color families onto the turkey, cut the turkeys out
 * Literature - [|The Dot]


 * WEEK OF OCTOBER 20TH:**
 * VOCABULARY: hot glue, composition, draw what I see
 * SKETCHBOOK: fast sketch, draw ceramic leaf garland
 * PROJECT: glue glazed ceramic leaves to twine and draw the garland in sketchbook

facial expression and gestures cut pumpkins and give them a facial expression be tearing different papers, use black tempera and sticks to form lines on the pumpkin.
 * WEEK OF OCTOBER 6TH:**
 * CLAY-will glaze leaves next Monday - they are not fired yet **
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK - rough draft of a pumpkin face
 * PROJECT

clay, earthenware, using earthenware, students will use cookie cutters to cut different size leaves. Beads will be made with clay scraps, needles and texture tiles
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29TH:CLAY - leaves and beads **
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT

Line, memory, pattern, value Literature: Harold and the Purple Crayon
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22ND:** No portfolios or aprons this week!
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK - use magnetic tablet to create line
 * PROJECT - Memory game

[|Color Game] [|How do you Feel] [|Color in Motion] Color Value - low to high shades sketch low to high value with pencil Color over a watercolor wash with different mediums showing value Literature: The Crayon Box that Talked markmaking, observation, blind drawing, value, line holding a drawing tool, filling a page, basic shapes, line & value //sketchbook, portfolio, line// //line// //make portfolios//
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT
 * WEEK OF AUGUST 25TH:**
 * Power Point of Art Room Procedures
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT