Fall term
•How can I express what I am learning and experiencing through my art?
•How can I use materials in different ways?
•What are techniques for creating a print?
•What is a mural?
•Where does clay come from and what are its properties?
The focus of fall term is gaining comfort in the Art Barn and learning routines. Elements of curriculum are tied to homeroom studies.
*Art Barn: different studio areas, classroom guidelines, care of materials, respect
*Color wheel: primary and secondary colors, hot and cold colors
*Brush strokes
*Quality of line
*Northwest biomes in the natural environment: visual representations of
-climate
-creatures
-temperate rainforest
Clay unit, an extension of biome study
*Clay: Properties, forms, of clay
*Clay in the natural environment
*Explore a variety of media
*Demonstrate techniques for care of materials
*Follow classroom guidelines
*Create community paintings on cloth using acrylic/tempra mixture
*Make climate mural with three dimensional clouds and NW creatures
*Represent wildlife using drawing and painting
*Represent a rainforest using paper tearing technique
*Observe and interpret what they see visually
*Demonstrate understanding of a Biome
*Explore properties of acrylic and tempera paints
*Use brushes appropriately
*Mix primary colors to form secondary colors
*Demonstrate a variety of different brush strokes
*Work collaboratively to create river mural and climate mural
*Represent ideas in paintings
*Use oil pastels to create Northwest animals for mural
*Show paper tearing techniques
*Paint a fish using long, flowing brush strokes
*Make a print of a fish
*Locate clay outside the Art Barn
*Demonstrate pinch pot techniques (tied to First People)
*Explore literature and art(Where the Wild Things Are)
*Study texture, form and the properties of clay
*Create clay creatures
*Make salmon prints on fabric as part of group installation
*Work collaboratively on intallation
*Teacher observation of:
-Comfort in Art Barn
-Cooperation skills
-Attitude
-Skill development
*Craftsmanship
Materials: oil pastels, colored pencils, tempera and acrylic paints, muslin, salmon specimens,
Books: Where the Wild Things Are, books on the Northwest, climate, and Biomes,
*Understand different ways people are physically in the world
*See connections and differences between people
*Art of First People
*Japanese fish printmaking techniques