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KINDERGARTEN PAINTING

Challenge
Paint yourself in your favorite place outside in nature.


Objectives
  1. Discuss and identify shapes to create your body.
  2. Discuss and identify natural elements.
  3. Use the 3-Step painting process: outline objects with a light color, fill in large areas with color, and add details with overpainting. 
  4. Practice and experiment using a variety of brush strokes: short, long, curved, and straight.
  5. Include at least 2 natural elements in your painting. 

FCPS Visual Arts Standards

COMMUNICATE
Students will individually and collectively brainstorm ideas related to their favorite place outside including visual clues that indicate that their artwork has an outdoor setting.  Complete a brainstorm worksheet to develop two visual clues.  Students will identify and communicate the proper painting safety and usage procedures.
CREATE
Students will identify and demonstrate the usage of basic geometric shapes to create themselves in their artwork.  The students will also use their knowledge of shapes to identify shapes found in natural objects to be included in their final painting. 
The students will experiment, practice and identify various brush strokes in their final painting.  The students will demonstrate and apply the proper process of loading and wiping a paint brush using the “Dip, Dab, Paint” technique.  Students will follow the three-step painting process while working on their paintings and demonstrate outlining, filling in and overpainting.
RESPOND
While looking at historical works of art, artwork of their peers and their own artwork, students will explain what they like and the reasons behind their preference during group discussions and gallery walk reflections.  Students will look at artwork to identify how other artists used various lines, shapes, colors and textures to represent figures in an outdoor setting.
CONNECT
Students will identify individuals, such as Claude Monet, who create artwork and be able to identify them as artists.  The students will also identity themselves as being artists.

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SECOND GRADE WEAVING

Challenge
Create a weaving that reflects the colors and textures found in a local natural environment.

Objectives
  1. Collaborative strategies to develop and plan artwork. 
  2. Use a ruler as a measuring tool for art production. 
  3. Select colors for their symbolic expressive qualities.  
  4. Follow safe and appropriate collage procedures.
  5. Experiment, practice & execute well-crafted cut paper techniques: layering, overlapping, exploding & punching.
  6. Create a loom with a curved warp. 
  7. Describe natural environments in the community.  

FCPS Visual Arts Standards
COMMUNICATE
Students will use their own personal knowledge and also collaborate to brainstorm ideas related to colors and textures related to seasons and natural environments.  Students will discuss weaving and their connection to the environment.  Students will visualize their favorite local environment.
CREATE
Students will use rulers as a measuring tool for art production.  Students will select colors for their artwork based on their symbolic expressive qualities.  The students will experiment, practice and execute well-crafted cut paper techniques: layering, overlapping exploding and punching. Students will create a loom with a curved warp.  Students will follow collage procedures while working on their paper weavings. 
RESPOND
While looking at artworks, students will identity and describe the colors and textures they see communicated in the artworks and in their own artwork.  Students will look at their own artwork to identify and describe qualities of craftsmanship in their paper weavings.  
CONNECT
Students will describe how their artwork reflects the natural environment.  Identify and describe how the natural environment is represented in the artworks shown in class.  Students will incorporate their prior knowledge of science and the seasons when planning and creating their own artwork.   
 


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FIFTH GRADE PRINTMAKING

Challenge
Create gyotaku inspired prints using collagraph and monotype printing methods. 
  


Objectives
  1. Use previous knowledge and collaborative strategies to explore concepts related to the theme of globalization to communicate meaning in artwork. 
  2. Experiment with different arrangements of elements in a composition. 
  3. Experiment and refine approaches using printmaking media, techniques and processes to produce well-crafted artworks.
  4. Follow safe and appropriate colored printmaking procedures, techniques and materials usage.
  5. Identify and describe the steps involved in two distinct printmaking processes: Collagraph and Monotype printmaking.    

FCPS Visual Arts Standards
COMMUNICATE
Students will use previous knowledge and collaborative strategies to explore concepts related to the theme of globalization to communicate meaning in artwork.  Students will demonstrate the proper use and care of printmaking tools and materials. 
CREATE
Students will experiment with different arrangements of elements in a composition to create collagraph printing plates.  Students will follow steps to create artworks using both collagraph and monotype printing methods. Students will experiment and refine printmaking procedures, techniques and materials to produce well-crafted artworks.
RESPOND
While looking at artworks, students will compare and contrast artistic inspirations.  Students will reflect and evaluate their own artwork in a written artist statement.  Identify and describe the steps involved in two distinct printmaking processes: Collagraph and Monotype printmaking.
CONNECT
Students will incorporate their prior knowledge of science, history and social studies when discussing the global importance of oceans and fish and how their importance can inspire artworks. 

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