Students will analyze Jan Brueghel's painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark focusing on shape, color, and texture. They will choose their favorite animal and draw it using color and lines to imitate the texture of the animal's skin, feathers, or fur.
Students will analyze illuminated letters. They will tell personal stories and illustrate them. Students will illuminate a letter that represents the most important part of their story.
Students will analyze works of art by Wassily Kandinsky and Sonia Delaunay. They will name basic lines and shapes. They will follow sequential steps in creating an abstract work of art. They will mix primary colors to create secondary and tertiary colors to paint their work.
Students will identify horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in art and buildings. They will use these lines to draw buildings. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will use a variety of textiles (cord, ribbon, string) to create a collage using vertical and horizontal lines. They will measure the lines and balance the number and spacing of vertical and horizontal lines. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will identify geometric and organic shapes. They will draw an organic shape and then draw a building around it using geometric shapes. Fill the geometric shapes with oil pastels, leaving the organic shape empty. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will identify textures in art. They will make rubbings of five different textures. Students will display their art and classmates will identify the surface of the rubbing. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will identify primary and secondary colors. They will mix secondary colors and use them to paint dabs and strokes to create art. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will create a landscape collage with a dominant feature. They will use their rubbings and painted art from previous lessons. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.
Students will identify examples of radial symmetry. They will practice making a radial design with a piece of paper. Then, they will trace lines on a styrofoam plate. Using the styrofoam plate and ink, they will make a print. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in on PDF.
Students will read and discuss the story Wings by Christopher Myers. They will listen to and analyze Short Ride in a Fast Machine by John Adams. They will create a collage of wings and connect it to the book and music. They will share their artwork and how it was influenced by the music and book.
Students will analyze the painting, Person in the Presence of Nature, by Joan Miró. They will create a creature that could live in the landscape in the painting.
Students will analyze Untitled (Medici Prince) by Joseph Cornell. They will build a box using found objects and various art supplies.
Students will analyze the painting, Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), by Wassily Kandinsky. They will listen to a piece of music and paint the melody, mood, and repeated patterns they hear.
Students will analyze Beasts of the Sea by Henri Matisse. They will create a piece of art using colored paper cut into different shapes.
Students will analyze the painting, The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, by Claude Monet. They will paint a garden scene.
Students will analyze the painting, Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3, by Georgia O'Keeffe. They will examine a flower. Then, they will draw and paint the flower.
Students will draw an imaginary adventure. The adventure can be a place they have visited or a new place and include the transportation, people they will see, and activities they will do.
Students will follow a sequence of steps to create art. Teacher will instruct students to draw different lines, shapes, and colors. Students will display work and compare and contrast the pieces of art.