Kindergarten

  • FIRST TRIMESTER
  • Warm and cool color lesson
  • Art appreciation and history of Piet Mondrian and how he used straight lines in his artwork. Students will create their own Mondrian style art.
  • Primary color lesson and painting primary color fish.
  • Square One Art--handprint flag or fingerprint flowers
  • Art Appreciation-children observed and discussed Hunters in the Snow and Tahitian Landscape
  • Art Appreciation-Tuning the Samisen by Hokusai.
  • Clay pinch pots
  • SECOND SEMESTER
  • Northwest American Indian totem poles
  • Royal self portraits
  • The artwork of Joan Miro and his child like paintings. The children re created art in his style!
  • Art Appreciation-Mother's Helper by Diego Rivera.
  • Author and illustrator Eric Carle and the book Mister Seahorse. The children painted paper and added texture added texture with tools. They created a seahorse painting using the painted paper.
  • THIRD SEMESTER
  • Andrew Caulder and his amazing mobiles. Children learned what is a mobile and made adorable fish mobiles out of plastic water bottles and tissue paper.
  • Review on warm and cool colors. The project was an oil pastel landscape.
  • Read The Wide Mouthed Frog and drew a frog on a lily pad. They used liquid watercolors to fill them with color.
  • Circle painting group project.