Big Ideas

What’s the Big idea?

Here are the things we can do in art.

Kindergarten

Procedures

·      We can use crayons, markers, scissors, glue, and other art materials to create artwork.

·      We can recognize shapes, lines, colors, and patterns.

·      We can tell if a picture is a portrait, still life, or landscape.

Process

·      We can make a design using lines

·      We can categorize shapes as large and small

·      We can identify our colors

·      We can make patterns

Self

·      We can make a portrait

Connections to the World

·      We can create a landscape, or picture of outside

·      We can make artwork about people

·      We can make artwork about inside and outside

·      We can use dancing to represent lines

·      We can tell stories with art

First Grade

Process

·      We can fill an area with solid color using crayon, pencil, or marker

·      We can apply paint by dragging our brushes

·      We can glue

·      We can fold paper and find the folded edge

·      We can create artwork about animals and things

·      We can identify lines, shapes, and colors

·      We can categorize shapes as large, medium, and small

·      We can name the 3D shapes

·      We can identify and use texture

·      We can use light and dark colors

·      We can create patterns

·      We can compare and contrast two pieces of artwork

·      We can use supplies safely

·      We can color without scribbling

·      We try our best

Form and Function

·      We can make something out of clay

·      We can design wearable art

·      We can explore Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh, and Composition No.2 by Mondrian

Communication

·      We can create a Monoprint

·      We can create a family portrait

·      We can talk about art

·      We can identify Cave Art

·      We can identify art from Asia

Environment/Place

·      We can create a still life

·      We can identify how patterns in art are like patterns in math

Second Grade

Narrative

·      We can create value using crayon or pencil

·      We can create an original landscape

·      We can design a building

·      We can create artwork about nature and places

·      We can identify flat and 3D shapes

·      We can identify and use texture

·      We can identify the primary and secondary colors

·      We can use foreground and background to create the illusion of space in a picture

·      We can compare and contrast two pieces of art.

·      We can use supplies correctly and do our best.

Culture

·      We can create a paper weaving

·      We can curl, fold, tear, or cut paper to make a relief, or 3D piece of art

·      We can create artwork about places

·      We can compare patterns in art to patterns in music

·      We can learn about Native American art and cultures

·      We can learn about the art and culture from Ancient Egypt

Symbols

·      We can compare and contrast lines, shapes, colors, media, and subject matter in art.

·      We can examine the theme or purpose of a piece of art

Diversity

·      We can examine how diversity is represented in people, and in the things they create.

Third Grade

Manipulation

·      We can layer two or more colors using crayon, colored pencil, or oil pastel.

·      We can cut a symmetrical shape from a folded piece of paper.

·      We can create an artwork with a person in an action pose.

·      We can create a Non-Objective artwork using only line, shape, and color.

·      We can identify lines.

·      We can tell the difference between 3D and flat shapes.

·      We can create textures

·      We can use warm and cool colors

·      We can identify realistic works of art.

·      We can identify African art.

·      We can compare and contrast the subject matter, media, place, and theme in two artworks.

Form and Function

·      We can create a container

·      We can use symmetrical balance

·      We can compare the art and music from a culture

Community

·      We can apply a watercolor wash

·      We can fill shapes and make lines with tempera paint

·      We can make 3D shapes from paper

·      We can imprint texture into clay.

·      We can create a cityscape

·      We can create artwork about community and group identity.

·      We can use the foreground, middleground, background, overlapping, and change in size to create the illusion of space.

Interpretation

·      We can demonstrate an additive process using string, cardboard, glue, or other found objects.

·      We can use new media and techniques correctly.

·      We can do our best

Fourth Grade

Observation

·      We can create light, medium, and dark values using pencil

·      We can make organic forms out of clay

·      We can create a realistic portrait

·      We can identify Regional works of art

·      We can use outlines

·      We can identify Organic shapes as shapes found in nature, and Geometric shapes as man-made shapes used in math

·      We can create a relief sculpture

·      We can compare and contrast two artworks on subject matter, media, and theme.

·      We can use supplies correctly.

Abstraction

·      We can use a variety of paper folding techniques

·      We can create an abstract portrait

·      We can create an abstract still life.

·      We can talk about art and discuss what art is, and what makes something beautiful

Environment

·      We can use a wet-on-wet watercolor technique

·      We can make tints and shades with tempera paint

·      We can create a landscape

·      We can create artwork about Missouri

·      We can tell how George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton reflected Missouri in their artwork.

Relationships

·      We can create a fiber weaving

·      We can create graphic art

·      We can use positive and negative space

·      We can use radial balance

·      We can create a center of interest, or focal point

·      We can explain why a play or skit can inspire art

Fifth Grade

Expression

·      We can make artwork using value

·      We can paint with a clear, sharp edge

·      We can make a print with an eraser block

·      We can create a complex form

·      We can use tabs and slits to put paper together

·      We can use a coil technique with clay

·      We can create a portrait from observation

·      We can design a building

·      We can create an artwork about Patriotism

·      We can create an artwork about time

·      We can use contour lines

·      We can use the illusion of form

·      We can use texture

·      We can create all of the colors on the color wheel

·      We can use asymmetry

·      We can compare art to music

·      We can explain how artists represent patriotism

·      We can compare and contrast two works of art on subject, media, and elements of art.

Illusion

·      We can create a landscape from observation

·      We can use symbolic shapes

·      We can use converging lines to create the illusion of space

·      We can use directional lines

Scale

·      We can use relative size, or realistic scale

Response/Reflection

·      We can have in-depth discussions about art, answering questions like “Who decides what makes artwork special of valuable?”