September 2016
We can make a collage. We can overlap in our collage. We know that collages can be made up of many different things. We can identify geometric and organic shapes. We learned about artist Henri Matisse.
October 2016
We can identify positive and negative spaces in a picture.
November 2016
We can name reasons why artists create artwork. We can identify the characteristics of Keith Haring's artwork. We known that symbols represent words in a picture. We can create our own picture that tells a message.(Pictured below: Students volunteered to be models for our Keith Haring figures.)
December 2016/January 2017
We can analyze artwork by Henri Rousseau.
We can draw animals.
We can create an environment in our artwork.
February 2017
We can create an imaginary landscape and include the elements of art. We can draw a foreground, middle ground and background. We can make objects in the front big and objects in the back smaller. We can overlap objects in a defined space. We can use dark colors in the front and lighter colors in the back. We can also use a check list to make sure we included everything in our picture. We can write a story describing our artwork.
March 2017
We can create three-dimensional self-portraits and 2-D underwater self-portraits.
April 2017
We were architects and designed our own birdhouses.
May 2017
Detailed Dinos!
June 2017
We learned about Terrel Powel and created stacked owls just like he did!