Lower School
Pre-K
Colors(recognition of words & color, plus color theory)  & shapes.
Drawing with scissors - the work of Henri Matisse  (small motor skills)
The Cave Artists of Lascaux - Pre K students create a cave wall outside the art rooms.
Vincent Van Gogh and textured sunflowers.
Patterned Spiders with furry legs.
Cornucopias - the Horn of Plenty:  (small motor skills, cutting)
Frogs - drawing frogs and simple printmaking
Self portrait prints - McCole's homeroom
Dinosaur drawings - Burdick's homeroom
2-D into 3-D - how paper becomes a sculpture
3-D design challenge with wood - balance
Individual work on Gala project - color a section on table & chairs
Drawing spring flowers - cutting shapes of flowers from paper
Clay animals & habitats



Kindergarten
Colors(recognition of words & color, plus color theory)  & shapes
Blind contour drawings and color theory re-enforced.
Texture talks - Halloween Witches
Background, middle ground and foreground
Still life using glue and pastels
Cornucopias - the Horn of Plenty:  (small motor skills, cutting)
Pointillism - the work of Georges Seurat - painting dots with Q-tips
Self portraits in color
Contour drawings
Paul Gauguin & his work - paintings like Gauguin (using a pure palette)
2-D into 3-D - how paper becomes a sculpture
3-D design challenge - create an invention sculpture and write about it
Individual work on Gala project - color a section on table & chairs
Drawing spring flowers - cutting shapes of flowers from paper
Clay animals & habitats




1/2
Elements of Art
Color theory, learning & review.
Plus, ways to shade & some intensive drawing of objects in the art room.
Big Bugs - using crayons to create values, with watercolor resists.
Skeletons and the proportion.
Use of pastels, oil pastels, temperas and watercolors: how materials differ.
Molas made from paper - grades 1/2
Inca Sun Gods grades 1/2
Self portraiture to follow, studying the work of a specific artist -  Picasso(1/2)
Monoprints
African Art unit; African Adinkra symbol jewelry design; African clay masks,  Ndebele houses
3/4
Elements of Art
Color theory, learning & review.
Plus, ways to shade & some intensive drawing of objects in the art room.
Big Bugs - using crayons to create values, with watercolor resists.
Skeletons and the proportion.
Use of pastels, oil pastels, temperas and watercolors: how materials differ.
Self portraiture to follow, studying the work of a specific artist - George Caleb Bingham.(3/4)
Louis Comfort Tiffany & the Aesthetic Movement (artists' reaction to the Industrial Revolution) - stained glass (grades 3/4)
Guiseppe Archimboldo - Fantasy Face Collages - grades 3/4
Visions of Atoms - Science integrated project - watercolors - grades 3/4
Weaving unit