ART

Junior Kindergarten & Kindergarten

• Identify primary and secondary colors
• Utilize proper techniques using small motor skills with crayons, paint, markers, and scissors
• Introduce the color wheel
• Introduce overlapping
• Feel and identify textures
• Identify basic shapes: circle, square, triangle, and rectangle
• Identify the difference between geometric and organic shapes
• Develop skill in drawing and cutting shapes
• Introduce three dimensional art using more than flat shapes
• Art history

Grade One

• Primary and secondary colors reinforced
• Line, shape and form emphasized
• Use of textures in work
• Adding mixed media
• Using entire picture space
• Basic color theory
• Overlapping reinforced
• Art history

Grade Two

• Learn color wheel concepts
• Learn difference in line: rough and smooth, cut vs. ripped
• Balance and contrast in compositions
• Texture, form, volume and unity
• Use entire picture space effectively
• Techniques with materials
• Overlapping reviewed
• Spatial relationships introduced
• Art history

Grade Three

• Creative thinking with color wheel
• Proportion and line when drawing
• Background, mid-ground and fore-ground
• Conveying form and value
• Rhythm and harmony in compositions
• Textile project with mixed media
• Spatial relationships reviewed
• Emotive expression with color
• Art history
• Homework

Grade Four

• Introduce tints and shades
• Drawing as a sequence: sketch, detail, contour lines and shadows
• Blending-creating dimension with color
• Advanced color theory with relation to feeling
• Compositional unity, balance and space
• Background, mid-ground, fore-ground reinforced
• Textile project with motor skills
• Compositional quality through rhythm, gradations and dominance
• Emotive expression with color and line
• Art history
• Homework

Grade Five

• Advanced color theory with relation to feeling reviewed
• Tints and shades reinforced with emphasis on form and value
• Drawing what you see, not what you think you see
• Space, form, line, proportion, balance and unity in compositions emphasized
• Textile project with three dimensional aspect
• Building up images using different techniques
• Contour line drawing and intuitive response
• Emphasis on creative thinking: thoughtful choices
• Perspective introduced
• Mixing two dimensional and three dimensional elements
• Art history
• Homework