Fall 2009 - First Grade This fall first grade students will be learning about the artist, Pablo Picasso. They will see many examples of his work and learn about his use of line, shape and color. They will learn about his many different styles and his use of a variety of materials. The first graders will create a guitar and shape collage inspired by Picasso and the art movement Cubism. Winter 2009/2010 - First Grade During the winter first grade students will learn about cave art and make their own drawings of animals that might be found on a cave wall. The drawing will be used to create a glue line rubbing that has the texture of cave art. They will also make a clay snowman and a winter wonderland landscape painting. Fall 2009- Second Grade Second grade students will be exploring natural and man made textures through a variety of rubbings. They will learn the french word frottage that refers to a rubbing. After completing a group of different rubbing they will see the rubbing and collages of Max Ernst. Inspired by his work, students will use their own rubbing in combination with other papers to create a landscape collage. Winter 2009/2010- Second Grade Second Grade students will create a paper weaving using primary and secondary colors. They will study the artist Edgar Degas in art and Ballet music in their music class. With their knowledge they will use oil pastels to draw a picture using dance and music images. Another arist, Claude Monet and his paintings of landsacpes, gardens and ponds will inspire their creation of pond drawings and a clay water lily project. Fall 2009- Third Grade The third grade students will be learning about the color wheel. They will be mixing the primary color paints yellow, red and blue to make the secondary colors green,orange and purple. They will use the secondary colors to make a jack-o-lantern painting. Winter2009/2010 - Third Grade Third grade students will study the artist Henri Matisse and his use of bright colors, patterns and shapes. They will make a collage of a stained glass window design. The project will include the use of geometric and oragnic shapes, symmetrical and asymmetrical designs, balance and color. The will continue to look at shape and patterns with Native American designs. They will create prints and watercolors from the designs and patterns they draw. Fall 2009 - Fourth Grade Fourth graders will be learning about the Hudson River School Artists. We will be using the lap top computers in art class to do research and see examples close up of the artists, Thomas Cole, Frederic Church and Thomas Doughty, Albert Bierstadt. The students will work on a landscape project using aerial perspective, overlapping, scale and detail to create distance. We will also review the use of foreground, middleground and background in a landscape. Winter 2009/2010 - Fourth Grade Fourth grade students will view and discuss the work of the artist Marc Chagall. They will learn that his work includes story telling, powerful compositions, mood and feelings as well as strong color and shape. They will create a composition based on a favorite story book from their own childhood. The students will paint their compositions with watercolors. Fall 2009and Winter 2009/2010- Fifth Grade The fifth grade art classes will be looking at proportion as it relates to portraits and facial features. They will be working on a self portrait using colored pencils and blending techniques. They will continuu with proportion and movement in their figures in Motion project. The students will continue to look at proportion and facial features as they start to design their fifth grade metal masks.