Kindergarten

• Working in the art room 
• Motor skill development
• Working with clay 
• Artist Henri Rousseau and an exploration of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, collage, group art
• Dream catchers and wrapping for coordination and gross motor development
• Clay storytelling dolls...introduction to linking literacy to art
• Portraits and printmaking.  Me as an artist, and following step by step directions
•  Artist Juan miro and line exploration and shape and form exploration
• I am an illustrator...illustrating a book with a beginning, middle and end, conflict and resolution, and developing a main character who looks the same on every page.  Process of how the books we read and hold "real books" start out like our homemade art ones.
• Figurative shapes with paper mache (sea life)

First Grade

• Fairy tales and collage work.  Developing a picture that tells a story using torn paper to develop cutting and writing muscles.
• Famous American study and artist Jasper johns.  Wax encaustic art, using symbols to represent an idea in art, and creating art that is mixed media
• Picasso and color:  Color wheel, primary, secondary, complimentary, tones, tints, shades and how to mix and make all.  Proper brush usage, brush cleaning, storing, and how to apply paint to paper properly. Abstract art introduced
  Artist Mondrain and simple line and shape and color.  
• Abstract art.  Contour line drawings, using a ruler to create a composition and painting it in using everything they have learned about paint thus far.
• Lines used in sewing.  Thread and needle usage and safety, knot tying, sewing buttons, whip stitch, up-down stitch, sewing pouches, sewing pillows, working independently.Group art/activist art: art that makes us think, makes us act, appeals to our emotions.  Sharing and talking about art 

Second Grade

• Collage with silhouettes, sunsets and other things that effect the light in a piece of art
• Sketching
• Art of Japan and study of Hokusai and his printmaking:  monoprints, colographs, etchings, woodcuts, working together on one piece like in a print shop...drawing first and then printing from a drawing
• Romaere Bearden (Charlotte Artist) and collage and storytelling in art.  How to have a beginning, middle and end of a story all on one composition.  Sharing and talking about art.  
• Balance of mobiles and stables and the kinetic art of Alexander Calder
• Clay Bass Relief sculptures
• Mural art:  art for the public
• Storytelling in art and how to create art that someone other that the artist can understand.  Also incorporates overlapping shape idea in art:  problem solving in art and how to create a balanced composition.   

Third Grade

• Portraits:  how to draw a face, mathematical proportions of face, how a face is just a face, but we want to know more about how we see ourselves in our art
• Representational art to Non representational art:  study grandma moses and Kandinsky and create a piece of abstract art by first starting with a sketch and then painting the piece.  Piece must be balanced using all the elements and principals of art...color, shape, space, repetition, movement, patterns...and creating triangle compositions.  
• Art history survey of people in art from representational, to cubism to abstract
• Cubism:  Creating cubism self portraits with real photographs.
  Photography:  Pin-hole cameras, relating the camera to the eye, learning how sun effects the photography process, making taking and developing a paper negative.  Learning how to present art.
  paper sculptures: problem solving in art. 
• Creating backgrounds, middle-grounds, and foregrounds in landscape art.