FIRST GRADE ART
I. Perception and Response
Students become aware of visual and tactile properties of artworks and other objects in their environment. As their own experiences with media increase, and they look at art created by themselves and others, including professional artists, they see and talk about:
- Lines, shapes, colors, texture, patterns and space in works of art and in the environment.
- Lines, shapes and colors that are repeated in works of art.
- Open, closed and empty spaces in sculpture.
- Expressive qualities of artworks, such as bumpy and gritty.
Additional awareness develops through experiences such as:
- Free choice painting either on an easel or in an art work center.
- Group work on murals.
- Drawing and painting out of doors.
- Visualizing pictures in their minds as they listen to songs, dreams, poems, music, and stories.
Student use these terms:
| drawing |
realistic |
dot |
studio |
| painting |
imaginative |
dash |
museum |
| mural |
warm colors |
stripes |
landscape |
| sculpture |
cool colors |
wiggly |
background |
| weaving |
textures |
bumpy |
foreground |
| design |
illustration |
gritty |
middleground |
II. Art Heritage
Students learn about the importance of art in different cultures. They learn that artist can influence others through their art. They visit an art museum. Through looking at art, listening to discussions, and talking, they:
- Become familiar with art forms from at least two cultures represented in their classroom.
- Learn about Early Chinese landscape paintings.
- Describe literal characteristics of artwork (costume, settings)
- Become acquainted with works by these artists:
| George Bingham |
Albrecht Dürer |
Winslow Homer |
Linares Family |
| Vasily Kandinsky |
Juan Miro |
Paul Gauguin |
Vincent van Gogh |
III. Asthetic Valuing
Students reflect on their experiences with works of art and feel free to express their preferences, talking about:
- The content or subject matter of artworks, based on information from their classwork, their own lives, and the world around them.
- Reasons for their personal preferences ("I like..." or "I don't like...because...") of artworks made by themselves and others.
- Questions about art (Why do I like to make art? What do I like about art?).
IV. Creative Expression
Students create art based on their imaginations and on places, activities and situations they know. They explore with media and solve artistic problems as they develop basic skills:
| Drawing |
with crayon, pencil, felt tip pen, non-traditional media
- draw lines with many varied widths and lengths
- create textures that are bumpy, sandy, prickly
- draw people with body, head, arms, legs, feet, hand, hair, clothing
- illustrate a story
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| Painting |
tempera paint; fingerpaint
- wet paint on dry paper
- wet paint on wet paper
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| Color |
secondary colors (green, orange and purple) |
| Printmaking |
found objects (gadget, leaf, sponge, fingers) |
| Cutting |
more than one thickness; with and without lines |
| Folding |
even halves, fourths; crumbling |
| Tearing |
repeated, similar shapes |
| Designing |
repeat designs: single lines and shapes, regular and irregular repetitions with letters and numbers as shapes |
| Construction |
with construction paper; with wood and glue |
| Puppets |
paper bag and shadow puppets |
| Modeling |
with clay or dough; texture; pinch techniques |
| Fastening |
use of paste, glue and tape |
| Weaving |
with paper |
| Showing |
In classroom, school and district displays |
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