First Grade Visual Art Content Standards

• Creative Expression:
  • Students express ideas, feelings and emotions through creating original works of art using a variety of media, techniques and processes. They explore different sources for inspiration: imagination, intuition, memory and observation. They learn to value their creative process and product, and those of others, as they engage in a variety of art-making experiences.
• Artistic Perception:
  • Students use their senses to perceive their own art work, and others, as well as objects in nature and their environment. They begin to communicate about their work and process, and that of others, by using visual arts language (e.g. expressive features, sensory qualities, principles of art and elements of design). They learn to understand that people “see” through different lenses and that the way people perceive the world is shaped by their individual experiences.
• Historical/Cultural Context:
  • Students explore art and artists from many cultures across time and place. They discover universal themes and concepts.
• Aesthetic valuing:
  • Students question the nature of art (e.g. what is art?) as they engage in their creative process. They have opportunities to develop respect for multiple viewpoints by discussing their values of art with others.

Students learn to express personal ideas and feelings using their imagination, intuition, memory, or observation. Students learn to value originality, artistic freedom, and the art process. The art curriculum places artistic expression at the center; aesthetics, art criticism, and history grow out of and serve students’ creative experiences. Students have opportunities to make choices, cope with ambiguity and uncertainty, as they exercise judgment in solving their own artistic problems. Through the making of their own art, students learn to invent, experiment, take risks, make mistakes, and learn from each other. The elementary visual arts curriculum is student centered emphasizing development of their imaginations and sensory perception. Children have opportunities to experience a balance/variety of the following:

First grade students experience the following:

Students create based on their imaginations and on places, activities and situations they know. They extend their experiences with different media and solve artistic problems as they develop skills.

• Drawing
  • with a variety of materials, including oil pastels, chalk, mixed media (combining materials); introduction to use of flat geometric shapes to create pictures or draw free form shapes
• Painting
  • with tempera, watercolor and mixed media (e.g. crayon resist); use of positive and negative space; experiment with mixing white with colors to make tints
• Printmaking
  • with paint and/or ink on a surface (e.g. masonite board) to make a monoprint; working into finished print with other materials to create an embellished print
• Sculpture
  • with clay using slab and modeling techniques; further explores glazes
• Crafts
  • with paper crafts (e.g. paper constructions) and/or basic weaving

Visual and performing arts programs are made possible by parent, business and community contributions to KIDDO!

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