Curriculm at a glance

2013-14 School Year:

5th Grade:
Project Focus on composition, line variety and Value.  Inspired by artist Coleen Wilcox.
Project Focus on art of quilling, line,  3-D paper sculpture.
Project focus on art of reductive printmaking and symmetry.

Project focus:
Georgia Face Jug - Ceramic sculpture
Project focus:  2 point perspective technique
Project Focus - Loom Weaving using a box and stair step patterns.

4th Grade:
Project Focus on composition, space, value and line with inspiration from artist Georgia O'Keeffe
Project Focus on art of quilling, line,  3-D paper sculpture.
Project focus on line, movement, value, form, and depth through learning about illusions in art and Op Art movement.

Project focus on repetition, radial symmetry
and art of printmaking
Project focus on sculpture, form with inspiration
sculpture artist Claes Oldenburg.

Project focus - Creating depth using 1 point perspective
Project focus - Fiber Arts & Stitching
   

3rd Grade:
Project focus on parts of a landscape,
pattern and analogous colors.  Inspiration
from artist Vincent Van Gogh.
Project focus on form, types of
sculpture and analogous colors.
Inspiration from glass artist
 Dale Chihuly.
Project focus on the print making art of Collagraph and symbols in art.


Project focus:  Techniques for working
with clay.
Project focus:  Artist Henri Rousseau's
landscapes, space, depth, value.

Project Focus:  Design, Composition, Imagination
Project Focus:  Weaving & Jewelry as art


2nd Grade:
Project focus on form and value with
inspiration from artist,
Wayne Thiebaud.
Project focus on line and shape patterns, landscape, narrative in art with inspiration from artist
and illustrator Faith Ringgold.
Project focus on parts of a landscape, rules of
simple perspective and form with inspiration from
artist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  


Project focus on methods for
creating clay sculpture.


Part 1:  Project focus on elements
of art and artist research with
inspiration from the student's choice
 of history's great artist.  
Part 2:  Create a sculpture that
focuses on interest on all sides, negative
space and stability.

 
Project focus:  Printmaking and architecture.
Art of Atlanta architect, John Portman.
Project focus:  Future Cities -
 imagination and architecture
Project Focus:  Color Schemes and Weaving











1st Grade:
Project focus on combining geometric shapes to create an image, primary & secondary colors with inspiration
from artist, Paul Klee.
Project focus on Illustration in art, Birds in their habitats, landscapes with inspiration from artist, illustrator
John James Audubon. 
Project focus on portraits verses landscapes and narrative art.


Project focus on Japanese teapots with
a twist, 3-D form and
ceramic sculpture.
Project focus on Japanese Fish Kites, transforming flat shapes
to create a sculptural form and stamp print making.




Project focus:  Stamp printing to
 create texture in a collage.  
Project Focus:  Native American Culture,
Weaving and Symbols


Kindergarten:
Project focus on geometric shapes,
collage, primary and secondary colors
with inspiration from artist,
Pablo Picasso.
Project focus on line and pattern,
color schemes and color mixing,
geometric vs organic shapes.
Project focus on texture, color mixing
and combining shapes to create an object.

Project focus on ceramic sculpture
and texture with inspiration
from the children's book, Stellaluna by
Janell Cannon.
Project focus in drawing shapes and
combining them to create a new
image and creating patterns within.
Creating patterns through stamp
printing with inspiration from artist,
Henri Matisse. 


Project focus:  Non clay sculpture
based on artist Louise Nevelson
Project focus:  Portraits in art
and types of careers.
Project focus:  Art of Africa, Kenyan Samburu Necklace, patterns.  



2012-13 School Year:

5th Grade 

Olympic Sculptures - Wire/tin foil/plaster/paint

Optical Illusions in Art - Colored Pencils
2 point perspective - marker/watercolor
Self Portraits in art - Proportions of human face - Positive Self Image - Marker 
Painted self portraits





5th  Grade other:  
African Art - Faux Batik T-shirts with African Inspiration








4th Grade
Inspiration, Artist: Laurel Burch - Chalk Pastels
Math - Rotational Symmetry - Printmaking

Inspiration, Artist: Pablo Picasso's Cubist Period - Perspective - Watercolor/Marker

Inspiration: Cave Paintings - Civilizations - Group Mural
Loom Weaving
Keith Haring inspired Silhouettes with Value

 4th Grade Other:  
 African Art - Masks


3rd Grade
Line - Shape - Pattern - Marker
Inspiration, Artist: Van Gogh - Parts of a Landscape - Oil Pastel

Inspiration, Artist: Romare Bearden - Communities - Collage
Imagination - Super Hero Powers - Crayon
Imagination - Machines - Crayon
One Point perspective cities
Wayne Thiebaud inspired cakes

3rd Grade other:  
 African Art - Story Telling Puppet Show



 2nd Grade
Printmaking - Line & Shape - Pattern
Rules of Perspective - Colored Pencil/Watercolor pencil

Positive & Negative Space - Symmetry - Collage/Black Marker
Inspiration, Book:  A Bad Case of Stripes - Illustrations - Perspective - Crayon
3-D Shapes - Oil Pastel
Inspiration:  Artist, Henry Rousseau - Value - Shape - Space - Oil pastel/ India Ink
Inspiration: Artist & Inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci - Crayon
Weaving

2nd Grade other:  
 African Art: Painted Gourd Birdhouses


1st Grade
Self Portraits - Ocean Life - crayon/watercolor/collage/crayons
Color Wheel/Color Mixing - Abstract Experimentation - Tempera paint
Color Study - Pattern - tempera paint/collage/ink stamping
Fall Nature Study - Leaf Prints - Tempera Stamping

Inspiration Book: The Little White Owl - Collage
Bugs in a Jar - Imagination - Fingerprinting/color pencils/collage
Self as Super Hero - Imagination - crayon
Inspiration, Illustrator: Eric Carle - Creating Texture with Paint/Collage
Inspiration: Artist Vincent Van Gogh - Overlapping - Oil Pastel 
My Family drawings
Polygon group mosaics
Shape Robots


 1st Grade other:  
African Art - Animals and pattern of African Countries


Kindergarten
Inspired from Book: 10 Black Dots-  Imagination - Math - Shape - Crayon
Positional words - Following verbal directives - Horizon Line - Crayon

Print making - Line - Pattern
Inspiration from Book: Where the wild things are - Imagination - crayon/watercolor
Shape - Background - Collage - Scissor Skills - School Spirit
Self Portraits - pencil/black marker/watercolor paint
Inspiration: Artist Claude Monet's Japanese Footbridge painting - crayon/watercolor/tempera painting with sponges & q-tips
Abstract Art painting experimenting with color mixing the color wheel
color mixing: painted birds
Collage stacked sandwiches

 Kindergarten other:  
 African Art, Story Book Illustrations









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