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//GRADE K// GRADE 1//GRADE 2 GRADE 3 GRADE 4 GRADE 5// GRADE 6 Below are the suggested target understandings and skills for first grade visual arts: [|VISUAL ARTS CORE CURRICULUM] =GUIDEBOOK FOR FIRST GRADE=
 * **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]]
 * 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:**

Video of the Mel Chin "Fundred Pay Dirt" project. Students will learn of the environmental impact Hurricane Katrina has had on children of New Orleans. This lesson gives student the opportunity to make a difference, not only to help other Americans, but to make the earth better through art making. The [|FUNDRED Project] Wallis, Pierce, Miller - Organic art (outside if weather permits) - celebrating Andy Goldsworthy Goldsworthy PPT Goldsworthy Moviemedia type="file" key="Andy goldsworthy.mov" Timothy & Booth - clay trivets (because did not do baskets)** WEEK OF APRIL 20TH: Online Art**
 * WEEK OF MAY 10TH:**
 * WEEK OF MAY 4TH:
 * WEEK OF APRIL 27TH: Color transfer art with crepe paper (could be used as Mother's Day cards)
 * WEEK OF MARCH 16TH**: Sketchbooks & Portfolios needed
 * VOCABULARY -transformation, background knowledge, cityscape, alternate media
 * SKETCHBOOK - A City
 * PROJECT - After reading //The ABC City//, students will be assigned a letter of the alphabet to elaborate on with duochromatic colors - charcoal and red oil pastel. Messy!!! Roll up sleeves - you may want aprons
 * LITERATURE - http://www.lookybook.com/mainpage.php?name_id=1465

WEEK OF MARCH 9TH: Coil & Pebble pottery. Handles will be added to create a basket if time. No sketchbooks, portfolios or aprons necessary. (Only if finished with desert murals.)
BEGIN collaborative art project
 * WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2nd - 23rd: Teachers need to bring any resources they have of desert life and landscapes.**
 * VOCABULARY - collaborative (group) artmaking, horizon line, desert plants and animals, warm and cool colors
 * SKETCHBOOK - sketch a skyline and horizon line, add a different texture to each level of the landscape
 * PROJECT - Pairs of students will be assigned a panel to create part of a class mural of the desert. Each panel will be numbered and labeled, and have a guiding horizon line and skyline, connecting it to the mural.
 * 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 - the desert
 * 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:** Don't need aprons. Must bring sketchbooks and portfolios are optional for you - I would want them though.
 * VOCABULARY - line design, color theory, Woodrow Wilson, primary colors, complimentary colors, analogous colors
 * SKETCHBOOK - "Tiny Tot Target Team"
 * PROJECT - Students will create a block number and design a portrait of "Woodrow Wilson" within the number of their choice.....


 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 15TH**
 * ART
 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 8TH:** Need portfolios and sketchbooks - your call on aprons
 * VOCABULARY - line, shape, folk art, emphasis
 * SKETCHBOOK - using organic shapes to draw a deer
 * PROJECT - students will paint a deer, using emphasis of color


 * WEEK OF DECEMBER 1ST:** No aprons needed - need sketchbooks
 * VOCABULARY - patterning
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT - ornaments

We will be glazing our animal faces and, if time allows, the lesson below.
 * WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10TH:** YOU WILL NEED APRONS, SKETCH BOOKS & (PORTFOLIOS - only if desired)
 * 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:**
 * CLAY - animal faces/red clay - a wall hanging or ornament **
 * VOCABULARY - eyes, nose, jaw, nostrils, ears, chin, forehead, texture
 * SKETCHBOOK - draw animal face of choice
 * PROJECT - create animal face of choice using a pinch pot technique

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. music theory, kandinsky, Students will interpret different musical pieces through expression of mood and color in a painting. Line, memory, pattern, value Literature: Harold and the Purple Crayon
 * WEEK OF OCTOBER 6TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK - rough draft of a pumpkin face
 * PROJECT
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT
 * 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
 * WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT

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 8TH:**
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT
 * WEEK OF AUGUST 25TH:**
 * Power Point of Art Room Procedures
 * VOCABULARY
 * SKETCHBOOK
 * PROJECT