Everett Schools First Grade Essential Learnings inVisual Art:
Creative Process:
The difference between an original and a copy: 30
Develops original ideas: Should be embedded in all lessons after 30
Composition:
Discussion of composition/arrangement of art elements: 28
Explores common subject matters: Landscape/ portraits: 22, 23, U2
Creates pattern Designs 14
Identifies art elements in works of art:
Color (11/ 12) Shape (3) Texture (33) Line (1/2) Form (27) Value (22) Space (51-53)
Identifies the art principles: Emphasis (28)
Works with different formats: 21
Identifies warm and cool colors: 11
Uses symmetrical balance: 35
Communication:
Describes artworks using art language: 15
Identifies and uses colors expressively: 11
Uses imagery to tell themselves and where they live: 5
Compares two artworks and discusses artist’s choices: U2
Presents work to peers for discussion: Should be embedded in all lessons (60)
Craftsmanship/Technique:
Demonstrates and consolidates control over media; distinguishes one media from another.
Drawing Skills: Uses felt tip pens, pencils, oil & chalk pastels, colored pencils and crayons
Uses expressive lines: 1 &2
Creates textures with lines and shapes: 9
Mark-making skills: Embedded in drawing lessons
Varies pressure with the drawing tool
Works back and forth
Outlines an object
Identifies and uses warm and cool colors: 11
Painting Skills: Uses tempera paint
Mixes secondary colors: 12
Experiments with light and dark colors: 22
Paints with wet-on-wet technique:13
Uses color expressively: 24
Varies brushstrokes and pressure on the brush: 14
Papercraft Skills:
Uses glue appropriately- applying glue to shape to be glued, not the background: 3
Cuts in various directions to create shapes with accuracy: 3/21/33
Tears paper to create shapes: 5
Fold paper into halves, quarters and eighths: 35/27
3D/ Clay Skills:
Models small figures: 39/ 40
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