4th,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 fourth grade visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM] =GUIDEBOOK 4TH GRADE= WESTWARD EXPANSION [|TIMELINE] WESTWARD MOVEMENT TIMELINE - SHORTER VERSION
 * **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.
 * 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:
Aspen and landscape paintings/trading cards

WEEK OF MAY 10TH:
Bring down glazed Utahs (remember 3 coats). If you haven't made trading card boxes and some cards, we need to do that. If you have done all of the above, we will do pointalism paintings of a Utah landscape on trading cards.

WEEK OF MAY 3RD:
BEST CITIZEN sculptures with Officer Smartt In Class: Glaze Utahs ATCs - decorate and finish boxes. Rules for Artist Trading Cards - making and trading

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 (including chops)

 * We will be finishing a few touch ups for the origami installation
 * 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 shades of secondary colors. Paint flowers for installation. Finish fence.

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:**
Plan Tin Art mural of Westward Expansion: Resources: [|Cybersleuth Kid]s - Excellent links to all events [|KIDS National Geographic] Excellent Brief Notes for[| all events]

**WEEK OF DECEMBER 7TH:**
Painting Landscapes

**WEEK OF NOVEMBER 30TH:**

 * CHOP PRINTS (bring brush paintings)
 * PAINTMAKING
 * Paint Utah fish (cards)

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9TH:
Asian Brush Painting http://art4cast.wikispaces.com/4th%2C2009-2010#ainting CARVING CHOPS OUT OF BLACK CLAY

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:

 * BLIND AND MODIFIED BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING
 * GOURDS, PENGUINS AND TURTLES
 * DOODLING AND LINE DESIGNS

WEEK OF AUGUST 24TH:

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