Curriculum & Assessment

Assessment:
I use the following grades to assess student learning:

  •  The Art Curriculum is aligned with the Michigan Visual Arts Standards and   National Core Arts Standards.
  • Projects are cross curricular, often tied to Social Studies, Science, Math, and Literacy.
  • Students' interests and personal experiences/ prior knowledge are valued and incorporated in the classroom
  • Students learn to discuss and analyze artwork, using special art vocabulary. Discussions incorporate Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). 
  • New concepts build upon already learned concepts
  • Concepts are reviewed frequently
 Our  district Fine Arts Curriculum can be found on   our AAPS ATLAS RUBICON site. You can click on  ArtK-2 to see   the units we work on throughout the year.  Each unit includes standards and benchmarks, student objectives,  enduring understandings, and essential questions. 
Below  is the general overview of skills and concepts we work on .

Young 5s
Skills- Tearing/ripping, cutting, glueing, basic painting, stamping, following directions and procedures safely, exploration of materials
Concepts: Shapes, lines, color

Kindergarten
Skills- Cutting, Coloring, ripping, tracing, basic painting with watercolor and tempera
Concepts- Warm and cold colors, the 5 basic shapes (square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval), simple patterns (AB, ABC), special relationships (space, overlapping), exploration of materials, problem solving strategies, following procedures safely


​1st Grade
Skills: Tracing, basic measurement (division of space), creating designs, color mixing
Concepts: Primary Colors, line directions, order, shapes, overlap, lines, organization (composition), procedures, variety, weaving, problem solving strategies


2nd Grade
Skills:   Folding, painting skills, sculpture , collage, printing
Concepts: Secondary, intermediate, and complementary colors, Elements and Principles of Art, symmetry, pattern, balance 
***2nd graders are assessed on Color Theory using a written pre -and post-test  and a pre-and post-project.


Clay Projects
Skills developed throughout Young 5s-2nd Grade:  Pinch, coil, slab building, score and slip