First Grade Art

Drawing

  • Gustav Klimt Tree of Life
  • Franz Marc Horse of a Different Color
  • Grant Wood Landscape
  • Mary Cassatt and her Pets

Painting

  • Mark Rothko Square
  • Piet Mondrian's Primary Colors
  • Monochromatic Harvest Moon
  • Winslow Homer Clipper Ship
  • Monet's Filed of Poppies

Printmaking

  • Adam Goldsworthy Leaf Printing
  • Asian Kimonos
  • Grant Wood Landscapes
  • Picasso Flowers - Petals with finger prints
  • Insects in a jar

Sculpture

  • Flying Purple People Eater
  • Sculpey Snowman
  • Gingerbread Boys and Girls
  • Franz Marc Rodeo Horses

Paper Collage

  • ​Alma Woodsey Thomas Mosaics
  • Henry Matisse Fiesta Icarus

Mixed Media

  • It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
  • ​Pysansky Eggs
  • David Hockney's Swimming Pool
  • Alligator Weaving​

Keystone School's First Grade Scope and Sequence

August

Gustav Klimt
​Tree of Life
Klimt used a lot of earth tones and gold to create his art work. In this piece the kids focus on The Tree of Life and create it using squiggly lines.
Piet Mondrian
Mondrian's compositions are made up of horizontal and vertical lines to create primary colored squares and rectangles.  
 (2 class periods this month)

September

Henri Matisse
​Drawing with Scissors
Ted Harris inspired Monochromatic
​Harvest Moon
Focus is on adding white to both red and blue to create different forms of value.
Pointilism
leaf drawing
Students create forms by putting dots close together.
We'll look at images of Seurat to help better illustrate the concept of pointillism.
(4 class periods this month)

October

It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Mixed Media
One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater
Kids use primary colored model magic to create their own secondary colored friendly monster.
(4 class periods this month)

November

Winslow Homer's
​Mayflower Clipper Ship Painting
Students use blues and whites to create a look of an ocean and clouds. They'll also include a wooden clipper ship similar to the ones pilgrims rode to the new world.
Look Who's coming to Dinner
Norman Rockwell would capture mid 20th century scenes of Americana. Here is an example of how one family might enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. Students think about how they are going to spend the holiday and draw who would be at their dinner table.
(2/3 class periods this month)

December

Do you want to build a snowman?
No, I don't want to here Let it Go for the 1000th time.  I swear I started teaching this lesson years before Frozen came out. Kids create their own snow boy or girl out of sculpey.
(3 Class Periods
This Month)

January

Snowman
​Bird's Eye View
Franz Marc Inspired
​Blue Horse
(3 class periods this month)

February

Keith Haring Dance Party
Rodeo Horses
Deborah Butterfield is a wonderful artist I've had the opportunity to meet that creates horse sculptures out of a wide variety of materials. In this lesson, the kids will create their own clay horse/cow/bull.
(4 class periods this month)

March

George Rodrigue
​Blue Dog
Alma Thomas
​Woodsey
(4 class periods this month)

April

Pysanky Eggs
Mixed Media
Fiesta Fun Day Sombrero and Poncho
Students create their very own Fiesta sombrero and poncho using horizontal lines, zig zag lines, and dotted lines.
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(4 class periods this month)

May

Faith Ringgold CityScape
Students use gelli prints as a way to create some very unique prints for the building material for this collage.
David Hockney
Pool Party
(3 class periods this month)

​Keystone First Graders Artsonia Online Gallery

Artsonia is an online portfolio website that Keystone uses. When a student finishes a piece of art, a digital photograph is taken of the piece and uploaded to that individual's personalized account on Artsonia.com.  With their parents' permission, an email is sent to the parent notifying that completed artwork is on the site.  The image can be downloaded and saved to the parent's computer, mobile device, or tablet. Artsonia.com also offers the opportunity to place the image on a coffee mug, apron, keepsake book, among many other items...If you'd like to check it out, click on the button just below.