| Quick Check Form: First Grade Visual Arts Curriculum |
| Big Ideas to Emphasize in First Grade Art |
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Artworks/Pictures can tell about feelings through colors, shapes lines and textures.
· Artists think about how to make their work better while they are making it and after they are done. · The difference between copying and originality in artwork. |
| By the end of First Grade: |
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Students will know:
· They can use lines, textures and colors to show feelings · The difference between an original and a copy · How to identify the art elements of line, shape, form, color, texture in their work. · That artwork can tell about themselves and where they live. · That artists think about their work and make deliberate choices to make their work better. | Students will be able to do
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· Mix colors in painting · Fold paper to create 3 D forms · Use brushes with control to create an image or feeling. · To cut and tear paper with some accuracy · To generate several ideas to work from · Identify different art mediums used. |
| ‘Adventures in Art’ Sequenced Core Lessons for First Grade: |
| 1, 2, 3, 5, U2, 9, 30, 28, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 21, 51, 52, 53, 15, 60
Recommended Supplemental lessons: 6 (pattern), 8 (texture rubbings- do before 9) 39&40 (Clay sculpture/ animals – do between 28 and 11) 4 (Cut Shape Collage, after 5 or before 21) 27 (Folded paper forms-do before 52) |
| Integration Points for First Grade Art: |
| Math
Difference between two and three dimensions: shape vs form (51-53) Identifies geometric shapes (51) Makes patterns (6) | Reading/ Language Arts
Develops descriptive language- talking about art Revise and Edit- in artwork and in writing Sequencing by making simple books |
| Science
New Plants: Adventures in Art Lessons numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 10 relate directly to observing and recording lines, shapes and textures for use in the Science notebook. | Social Studies
Study of Community/ making models of the community, school or neighborhood: Ad in Art lessons 21, 51-53 |
| Health & Fitness
My body is extra special (GBS )- Correlate with portraits/ figure drawings Talk and Listen/ Happy, Sad…(GBS)- Ways artists communicate feelings in artwork through color, lines, etc | Performing Arts
Expressing feelings through sounds and movement The role of practice, and having many ideas in performance. The role of originality in music, theater and dance. |
| Technology
Can draw straight lines w/ mouse using shift key Can create geometric shapes with shape tools. Can fill shape with colors using paint bucket tool | Key Art Vocabulary : |
| Art Elements: Shape, Line, Color, Texture, Form
Emphasis/ Center of Interest, Warm/ Cool , Primary / Secondary, Light and Dark (tints and shades) Copy/ Original, Landscape/ Portrait,/ Self-Portrait, Details, Format |