The visual arts are an integral part of a child's education. The arts provide an outlet for students to use their imagination and creativity to solve problems. Visual art allows students the freedom to think outside the box to find original solutinos to problems. Research shows that students who take art score better on standardized tests. Take a look at what we'll be learning about this year in art. 

• Using shapes and lines to make pictures
• Using pattern and symmetry
• Directed drawing (I draw; they draw)
• Painting
• Cave Art
• Mixing Primary colors to make Secondary colors
• Learnign about Eric Carle and Dr. Seuss
• Listening to books

• Henri Matisse
• Projects about different Cultures:
  • Day of the Dead (Mexico)
  • Dragons (China)
  • Origami (Japan)
• Collage
• Warm and Cool Color Schemes
• Directed Drawing (I draw; they draw)
• Listening to books
• Discussing works of art

• Piet Mondrian
• Pablo Picasso
• Wassily Kandinksy
• Realism to Abstraction
  • Why artists make art
  • How invention of the camera changed art
  • Realism
  • Abstract
  • Non-Objective
• Painting techniques, mixing tints and shades
• Clay
• Native American Art
• Georgia O'Keefe
• Discussions of artists and works of art

• Continuing drawing, cutting and gluing practice
• Leonardo Da Vinci Robots
• Fall Leaves
• Owls
• Foreground, middle ground, background
• Using pattern, symmetry, geometric shapes
• Directed drawing (I draw; they draw)
• Tribal Art: Native American, African
• Listening to books
• Discussing works of art

• Color Schemes: Warm, Cool, Monochromatic
• Directed Drawing (I draw; they draw)
• Ancient Egypt
• Paper Mache
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Guiseppe Arcimboldo
• Discussions of artists and works of art

• Color Theory color wheel/color schemes
• Pop Art
  • Themes (popular culture, everyday objects)
  • Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
• Contemporary Art
• Creative Careers
• Clay
• Self-Portrait
• Symbols
• Discussinos of artists and works of art