First Grade Art
Piet Mondrian Watercolor Resist
Students learned about Piet Mondrian’s life and how he created his artwork. Students practiced using a ruler for this project with key vocabulary including: Horizontal, Diagonal, and Vertical! We also studied the Primary colors and the Secondary colors using Mondrian's artwork, Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni, and Ok Go's color theory video from Sesame Street.
Learning Objectives: :
Learning Objectives: :
- Identify straight, jagged, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines.
- Classify primary and secondary colors on the color wheel.
- Use line, shapes, and colors to create balance, rhythm, unity, and contrast.
- Identify formal elements in a work of art (lines, shapes, colors).
- Mix primary colors into secondary colors.
Textures, Warm Colors, and Cool Colors Oh My!
Students learned about different kinds of textures through crayon rubbings. Students practiced identifying textures using art learning centers where they recorded their findings and talked about them with their group verbally. Students then brought in leaves and created multiple leaf rubbings. We then learned the difference between warm colors and cool colors in our sketchbooks. Finally we learned about wax resist using watercolor to add our choice of color scheme to our leaf rubbings.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify varied textures.
- Classify colors within color families (warm/cool).
- Create artwork with "competing" textures.
- Paint using watercolor and wax resists.
Emotional Self Portraits
Learning Objectives:
- Use color to depict emotions.
- Identify and explain how color creates emotions.
- Create a self portrait.
- Describe a composition using formal elements.
- Develop and support essential questions (How does art help us tell people our feelings?)
Introduction to Primary and Secondary ...Sculpture!
Students learned about the primary and secondary colors. Students used model clay to mix their primary colors into secondary colors. Students then created a small sculpture they could take home of their learning.
Learning Objective:
Learning Objective:
- Learn about Primary Colors
- Learn how the Primary colors make the Secondary Colors
- Fine motor skills of mixing, mashing, and squishing
- Make a small sculpture using imagination
Wassily Kandinsky’s Musical Expression
Students learned about how Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings were inspired from various types of music. Students identified key elements in his paintings that symbolized the dissimilarities in music. I.E. Loud vs Quiet, Fast vs Slow, etc. Students then used several art materials to represent a variety of music listened to in class.
Learning Objective:
Learning Objective:
- Paint and draw using watercolor, crayon, and marker.
- Use color to depict emotions.
- Identify and explain how color creates emotions.
- Manipulate lines, shapes, and proportions to create balance, rhythm, unity, and contrast.
- Develop and support essential questions (What is the best way to convey our feelings? Visually by using a specific media? Musically?)
Cave Art
Students studied Tools, Technologies, and Transportation within their core curriculum during this art project. Students then painted their "cave drawings" on brown paper under their desk with the classroom lights off and one flashlight to recreate the experience of painting in a cave. Teacher played a scene from the Croods to compare and contrast the present and the past.
Learning Objective:
Learning Objective:
- Paint and draw using tempera.
- Sketch original ideas to plan artwork.
- Examine significant world art.
- Examine how art tells stories of the past.
Organic versus Geometric Cut Paper Sushi
Students learned about the Japanese cuisine sushi. Students made maki and sashimi sushi rolls using geometrical and organic shapes and cut paper until they held mastery of the skills. Students then created their own sushi platter of their choice and demonstrated understanding of concept and skills through completed independent project. Students learned some Japanese words while working on their project. Arigatou gozaimasu!
Learning Objective:
Learning Objective:
- Compare and contrast organic and geometric shapes.
- Create sushi rolls using cut paper
- Identify straight, jagged, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines and varied textures.
- Use lines, shapes, and colors to create balance, rhythm, unity, and contrast.
- Show proportion using varied sizes of similar objects.
Paper Weaving
Learning Objective:
- Cut materials safely with scissors and manipulate glue/paste.
- Weave using paper stripes.
- Examine Native American culture, symbols, and practices.
- Examine characteristics of world cultures.