First Grade Art
Drawing
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Painting
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Printmaking
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Sculpture
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Paper Collage
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Mixed Media
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Keystone School's First Grade Scope and Sequence
AugustGustav 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)
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SeptemberHenri 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)
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OctoberIt'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)
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NovemberWinslow 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)
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DecemberDo 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.
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JanuarySnowman
Bird's Eye View Franz Marc Inspired
Blue Horse (3 class periods this month)
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FebruaryKeith 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)
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MarchGeorge Rodrigue
Blue Dog Alma Thomas
Woodsey (4 class periods this month)
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AprilPysanky 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.
(4 class periods this month)
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MayFaith 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)
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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.