Fine Arts—Art

Students will:

Kindergarten / First Grade

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D media including: acrylic paint, colored pencils, markers, pastels, ink, dye, clay, plaster, and wood
• Develop perceptual skills and visual arts vocabulary through discussion and experience
• Experience and distinguish a variety of media used personally and by other artists
• Use and explore elements of art in nature: including line, shape, texture, color, and value
• View and discuss art from various cultures
• Demonstrate beginning skill in the manipulation of sculptural materials, i.e. clay, wood, plaster gauze

Second Grade

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D media including: acrylic paint, water color, ink, dye, pastels, markers, clay, wood, and plaster gauze
• Analyze and discuss meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the elements of arts: line, shape, color, texture, and value
• Create a variety of personally expressive art inspired by life and one’s own imagination
• Identify and describe common subject matter, i.e. landscapes, portraits, still life
• View and produce art inspired by other cultures
• Create a representational sculpture based on techniques learned, using clay, wood, or plaster gauze

Third Grade

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D media including: acrylic paint, water color, ink, dye, pastels, pencils, markers, clay, wood, plaster gauze, and wire
• Build on skills learned about a variety of media to produce artwork that is conscious of the elements of art (line, shape, color, texture, and value)
• Mix and apply acrylic paints to create tints, shades, and neutral colors
• Create artwork that shows depth and reveals value changes
• Gain familiarity with the principles of design
• Respond to art from other cultures through discussion
• Create an imaginative sculpture using clay or wood or plaster gauze

Fourth Grade

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D & 3-D media including: acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, dye, pastels, pencils, markers, clay, wool, plaster gauze, and wire
• Deepen awareness of artists from other cultures as well as local artists through examples
• Communicate ideas, experiences and stories using a variety of media
• Describe contrast in works of art and in nature
• Use and explore color mixing with acrylic paint and discuss how artists use color to create ideas and moods
• Use accurate proportion and perspective in landscape, still life, and portraits
• Share talents as a group to produce a collaborative work of art
• Experience the potter’s wheel and additive and subtractive processes in sculpture
• Describe how art plays a role in reflecting life and personal growth

Fifth and Sixth Grades

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D & 3-D media including: acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, dye, pastels, pencils, markers, clay, wool, plaster gauze, and wire
• Create expressive artwork in a safe environment
• Promote confidence through the process of creating art
• Experiment with several solutions when applying skills and concepts to create more complex artwork
• Identify and apply the elements of art and principles of design to reach interesting visual results
• Express a mood in an artwork
• Use art materials in a safe and responsible manner
• Describe and analyze a work of art through observation and discussion
• Investigate spatial relationships within sculptural forms
• Build and use vocabulary related to visual imagery and processes
• Integrate art history and multi-cultural art into individual artwork
• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines

Seventh and Eighth Grades

• Experience a wide variety of 2-D & 3-D media including: acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, dye, pastels, pencils, markers, clay, wool, plaster gauze, and wire
• Continue to build skills and express ideas freely without fear of failure
• Continue to incorporate the elements of art and the principles of design in the artwork
• Create a quality product by executing good craftsmanship
• Use multiple solutions to complete a project
• Identify visual qualities in expressive, representational, abstract, and functional art
• Discuss strengths and weaknesses through class critiques
• Respect and enjoy individual work
• Continue to investigate spatial relationships in three-dimensional artwork
• Identify how art is used in their own community and globally, at present and in the past
• Continue to build and use appropriate art vocabulary
• Continue to identify connections with other disciplines

Fine Art—Humanities

Students will:

Third Grade

• Identify in a cultural context the famous artists (authors) and their works
• Identify how artist’s (author’s) life affects work
• Identify aspects of  life and society during certain time periods and how they influenced artist’s (author’s) work
• Identify specific style of artist
• Make connections among the art, literature, and music of the same time period
• Develop appreciation for works of art by creating and discussing them

Fourth Grade

• Identify in a cultural context the famous artists (authors) and their works
• Identify how artist’s (author’s) life affects work
• Identify aspects of  life and society during certain time periods and how they influenced artists (author’s) work
• Identify specific style of artist
• Make connections among the art, literature, and music of the same time period
• Develop appreciation for works of art by creating and discussing them

Fifth Grade 

• Identify in a cultural context the famous authors and their works
• Identify how author’s life affects literary works
• Identify aspects of  life and society during certain time periods and how they influenced author’s work
• Analyze whether a specific movie is based on the literary work (book)
• Make connections among the art, literature, and music of the same time period
• Develop appreciation for great literary works by reading and discussing them

Sixth Grade

• Identify in a cultural context famous Americans and landmarks through art
• Identify importance of lives of famous Americans in American history
• Identify unique style of American artists
• Make connection from art, literature, and music of same time period
• Identify artist’s style and describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art
• Develop appreciation of art by identifying works of art and discussing them

Seventh Grade

• Identify in a cultural context the famous artists and their works
• Identify how artist’s life affects work
• Identify aspects of  life and society during certain time periods and how they influenced artist’s work
• Make connections among the art, literature and music of the same time period
• Identify artist’s style and describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art
• Develop appreciation of art by identifying works of art and discussing them

Eighth Grade

• Identify what “humanities” means
• Identify in a cultural context the artists and their works within certain time periods
• Identify how society influenced works of art
• Develop opinions of arts in different cultures through reading, discussing and writing
• Develop expressions of thought through writing, speaking, and presenting
• Identify artist’s style and describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art
• Make connection from other disciplines through art and discussion

Fine Arts—Music

Students will:

Kindergarten-Second Grade

• Expand a repertoire of songs and singing games using the medias of movement, instruments and singing
• Explore space during movement activities; use the concepts of self space and shared space while responding to different tempos with locomotor movement (walking, running, skipping) and body percussion
• Accompany songs and rhymes by playing beat patterns, first on body percussion and then transfer to instruments such as xylophones and unpitched percussion instruments
• Explore pitch and discover high and low sounds in speech, song, and instruments using poetry, words, gestures, and drawings; sing alone and within both small and large groups

Third and Fourth Grades

·        Continue to practice chants, songs, and poetry through movement, instruments, and singing activities

·        Explore space, focusing on body levels, locomotor and non-locomotor movements, and group formations for folk dances

·        Accompany songs and rhymes by playing ostinato patterns on body percussion and instruments; expand the repertoire to include 3-5 independent musical parts that will support the singing voice

·        Experience 3-4 part canonic singing and melody lines with descants

·        Perform and identify 3/4 meter and 6/8 meter with the eighth note as the beat unit

·        Experience syncopation through movement, singing, and instrument playing

• Sing chants and pentatonic songs, expanding scale steps to include pentachordal (d r m f s) and hexatonic (d r mf s l d)
• Read and write using traditional music notation 
• Explore, improvise and perform melodic reading through the study of soprano recorder

Fifth Grade-Eighth Grade 

• Build a repertoire of chants, songs, and poetry through movement, instruments, and singing activities
• Identify, perform and compose rhythmic patterns for improvisation and uses in traditional (3/4, 4/4, 6/8) as well as mixed meters (5/4, 5/8, 7/8)
• Begin experiences in formal conducting
• Identify, perform and compose melodies in the following modes:  Aeolinan, Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian, Lydian, Phrygian
• Continue to play Soprano Recorder and add Alto Recorder to reinforce melodic scale tones and traditional music literacy
• Play, identify, and compose melodies with cadential endings, paraphony, shifting borduns, I-IV-V accompaniments, serialism and whole tone scales
• Demonstrate an understanding of timbre when composing and improvising
• Sing or play a melodic descant to harmonize a melody
• Perform four-part canons using speech, song, movement and instrument playing
• Perform and conduct student-created compositions using all of the Orff-Schulwerk media, employing knowledge of prior forms studied.
• Improvise and compose movements using expressive elements in various dance and movement idioms