Lower Elementary Art

KINDERGARTEN:                                  

• Gather information from the environment by using the five senses
• Identify colors, textures, forms, and subjects in the environment
• Create original works of art by using a variety of colors, forms, and lines
• Create artwork by arranging forms intuitively                        
• Develop manipulative skills through drawing, painting, printmaking, while using a variety of different materials
• Identify simple subjects expressed in artworks           
• Share ideas with fellow peers through individual artwork and the artwork of others
• Relate art to everyday life
• Identify and create Christian art                         
• Understand how we can praise God through art

1ST GRADE:  

• Identify similarities, differences, and variations among subjects, using the five senses                    
• Observe and identify color, texture, form, line and emphasis in nature and our man-made environment
• Create images that combine a variety of colors, forms, and lines                
• Create designs by arranging forms in an orderly arrangement                     
• Increase manipulative skills by using a variety of materials to produce drawings, paintings, prints and constructions                    
• View artwork that show families and groups                    
• Identify the use of art in everyday life           
• Express ideas through own personal artworks
• Identify simple ideas about original artworks and exhibitions of individual work, peers, and others
• Identify and create Christian artwork           
• Understand how we can praise God through art

• Identify art elements such as color, texture, form, line, and space and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, and rhythm     
• Use the correct art vocabulary when expressing ideas and feeling in artworks               
• Create compositions using the elements of art and the principles of design     
• Use a variety of art materials to practice skills necessary for producing drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, and modeled forms
• Identify stories in a variety of artworks             
• View a variety of artworks and compare how individuals and families are depicted                   
• Identify the different kinds of jobs in the art world                
• Discuss preferences in personal artworks         
• Identify ideas in original artworks and exhibitions by self, peers and other artists      
• Identify that creativity is a gift from God         
• Understand how Christian art is used to share God’s Love through stories from the Bible
• Understand how we can praise God through art             

• Use sensory knowledge and life experiences as sources for ideas in their artwork about visual symbols, self and life events                  
• Identify elements of color, texture, form, line, space and value and the art principles of emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity in artworks
• Create artworks based on personal observations and experiences
• Use design skills to create a variety of compositions          
• Create drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, clay, and fiber art   
• Compare selected artworks from different cultures       
• Understand how art is used in everyday life.                         
• Learn how to incorporate stories and expressive qualities in personal artwork             
• Learn to express how creativity is a gift from God in individual artwork                      
• Create artwork of God’s Love through inspiration from the bible stories                         
• Praise God through art