AE17.VA.K.6

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.K.6
Share and talk about the art they are creating.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
EQ: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?

Skills Examples

Create two-dimensional artworks using finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings.
Create three-dimensional artworks using techniques such as rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching, and pulling clay.
Work with a partner to create works of art.
Working in small groups, use recycled materials to create artworks.
Explore the books Why is Blue Dog Blue? by G. Rodrigue and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss to understand color meanings and moods.
Read the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman to explore different styles of line.
Safely use and share scissors, pencils, crayons, markers, glue, paints, paintbrushes, and clay.
Use symbols to help tell a personal or make-believe story.
Manipulate art media to create textures and patterns.
Identify and use organic and geometric shapes to create works of art.
Show respect for self and others while making and viewing art.
Use the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to create a free-style painting while singing the names of the colors.
Use patterns in designing colored stripes on the shirt of a person you know.
Collect found objects such as paper tubes, forks, and pieces of cardboard. Press them in shallow tempera paint, and stamp them on paper to show printmaking.
Create a T-chart that separates cool (blue, green, and purple) and warm (red, yellow, and orange) colors in different columns. Use the symbols of water waves for the cool column header and the sun for the warm column header.
Work with a partner to find colors, lines, and shapes in art and tell each other what you see.

Vocabulary

Art
Artwork
Collaboratively
Collage
Cool colors
Warm colors
Elements of Art

Color
Line
Shape

Imaginative play
Play
Portfolio
Primary colors
Principles of design

Pattern

Printmaking

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow

Mind Maps

Line Stations

My Many Colored Days

Wiggly, Squiggly Lines