KG1 Visual Arts

Objectives

• Explores the visual arts

Objectives

• Demonstrates positive approaches to learning

  • Attends and engages

  • Persists

  • Solves problems

  • Shows curiosity and motivation

  • Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking

• Remembers and connects experiences

  • Recognizes and recalls

  • Makes connections

• Uses classification skills

• Uses symbols and images to represent something not present

  • Thinks symbolically

  • Engages in socio-dramatic play

Enduring Understandings

Students will understand that...

• The Art room is a space where they can imagine and create.

• Mistakes are part of the creative process.

• Mistakes help us discover new things.

• We all see Art differently.

• There are different tools and materials that artists use to create.

• Art ideas can be anywhere in the world.

• Artists try new things and take risks.

• Artists work alone and also collaborate.

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Find things in the Art room

• Identify their teacher and Instructional Assistant

• Know where to sit in Art class

Enduring Understandings

Students will understand that...

• Dot is the beginning of a line.

• Lines can create shapes.

• Lines, shapes and forms are elements of art.

• Dots, lines, shapes and forms can be put together to create a piece of art.

• Pictures can be made purely from dots, shapes or lines.

• Abstract art can be made from just lines and shapes.

• Lines can represent movement.

• Lines could be delicate, strong, symmetrical, movable.

• Lines can show texture and movement.

• Lines can show emotions.

• Drawings can represent an artistic idea.

• Artistic ideas can be expressed using colors, lines and shapes.

• There are different types of drawings.

• Sketches help artists plan their ideas.

• Artists get ideas from the world around them.

• Looking at the basic components of things (lines, shapes) help artists draw their ideas.

• Artists need to practice in order to create.

• Artists communicate with others through their Art.

• A drawing could be realistic.

• Each art material and media help us create in a certain way.

• Artists explore with ideas and materials before they start they creative process.

• How can artists be creative.

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Use different drawing art tools to create their pieces (markers, colored pencils, crayons, oil pastels)

• Be able to share materials with others

• Take proper care of the art materials they are working with

• Engage in self-directed play with materials

• Understand that every tool makes different types of marks and traces

• Use of skills to create art

• Draw and cut out shapes

• Recognize different types of lines

• Create an abstract picture using shapes and lines

• Analyze the art of famous artists that use shapes (Art appreciation)

• Authentic work: i.e. Connecting to life outside the classroom

• Look for the elements of shape in order to make a drawing

Enduring Understandings

Students will understand that...

• Using clay help artists/sculptures to create pieces that will be useful in daily life like pottery or to create pieces of art.

• Artists use different mediums to create and design, Clay is one of those.

• Artistic ideas come from a variety of sources, observations, the world around us, other artists, own inspiration, feelings.

• Artists create/model/sculpt with a clear idea of what they want to communicate, show, present.

• Artists plan and organize their ideas and use art principles and elements to get there.

• How can using different mediums and elements of art (color, texture and shape) will help them as artists differentiate their art from someone else's art?

• How can creating art will help people let others know about their ideas.

• How can planning ideas ahead of time and practice can help artists create.

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Roll coils/snakes, make slabs/cakes, roll balls

• Twist and pinch, manipulate a piece of clay

• Use the rolling pin, knives, mats, sculpting tools

• Texture mats

• Decide, choose and design their final project

• Plan and transport their idea to a piece of earth clay

• Experiment with glaze

Enduring Understandings

Students will understand that...

• Painting is a form of artwork

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Recognize materials for painting (different brushes, water, palettes, mixing trays)

• Name primary and secondary colors

• Various strokes and ways of painting

• The process of painting (how to use materials)