Students will

• Manipulate the following materials to create a work of art: Paper, scissors, glue, markers, water colors, tempera paint, paint brushes, sponges, and clay
• Develop fine motor skills as well as dexterity
• Participate as a member of a group and practice their social skills
• Apply creativity , imagination, and problem solving skills
• Complete the process of sequential operation
• Appraise and Assess finished work
• Discover the joy of art through their own unique qualities

All students are encouraged in creative thinking and creative production through the nurturing of the following: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

• A basic understanding of the following elements of art: line, shape, color, form, value, space, and texture.
• Sensitivity to self in environment, self image, and qualities unique to the individual.
• Seasonal Changes environmental transformations
• Direction, variation, repetition, control and accuracy
• Knowledge of a famous artist
• Use of intersecting lines, and branching pattern as structure
• The difference between organic and geometric forms
• Discovery of watercolor properties through crayon resist
• Parts to whole instruction and assembly
• Experiential understanding of symmetry through folding cross-wise and or length-wise while then implementing the double-cutting technique.
• Identification of simple shapes in art as well as their own physical environment shown through their own work
• Recognition of primary colors, and color mixing through textural sponge painting
• Introduction to ceramics hand in hand with construction of a three-dimensional form.
• Color identification
• Translating ideas and emotions into images, expressing feeling and movement through the use of paper collages and tempera paint.
• Identifying radial symmetry and real life applications
• Distinguishing shapes and sizes, arranging and assembling original works of art.