WITH Ms. Daly & Ms. Coval

Throughout our program we are enthusiastic to teach our students to be creative and become comfortable using various art materials, learning art history and about various artists, art movements, art vocabulary and cultures.

Kindergarten:

• Joan Miro'and surrealism: colors, shapes and lines.

• Piet Mondrian: primary colors, vertical and horizontal lines.

• Charles Demuth: warm colors, squares, circles and sizes. 

• Paul Klee: cool colors, lines, fiber art.  

• Medieval art and the unicorn made from simple geometric shapes.

• 3d form and simple clay sculptures.

First Grade:

• India artistry and the elephant, "Elmer" book used to teach creative expression and motifs, shapes, color and line.

• Maurice Sendak illustrator "Where the wild things are", 3d sculptures, form and texture.

• Lascaux cave paintings: line, shape and earth tones.

• Tapestry of India: weaving, patterns, warm colors and digital photographs.

• Marc Chagall and our "village" too using geometric shapes, color, line.

• Stuart Davis and jazz art: abstrac art, line, color and space.

• Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs and redial designs, symbols, colors.

Second Grade:

• Leonard DaVinci and self portrait, line, background, proportion.

• Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus and hieroglyphics and symmetry, color, line and pattern.

• Wassily Kandinsky abstract and blurry, color, movement and shapes.

• Creating a symbol and clay pinch pots and texture.

• Amish quilts and patterns, motifs, lines, color and theme.

• Claude Monet and creating a garden watercolor impressionist painting.

Third Grade:

• Gargoyles of the Notre Dame Cathedral: 3d clay form, texture and emphasis.

• Henri Matisse and organic shapes, space,  composition, color groups and shades, asymmetry and symmetry.

• Animals in art history and blotto creatures, theme, colors, symmetry.

• Henri Roussea and jungle theme artwork, background, foreground, color, line.

Fourth Grade:

• A look at cartoon history and cartoons of self, exaggeration, color. shape.

• Creating a cartoon strip and illustrations, background, middle ground and foreground, sequencing and colors.

• Los Dias de Muertos and a look at the human skeleton, bright festive colors and motifs of the Mexican culture, movement.

• African mask making and fibers in art, symmetry, shape, line, movement.

Fifth Grade:

• Batik Positive/Negative  designs, contrasting colors, line, space.

• Native American coil pot making, burnishing, slip designs, nature as inspiration.

• Celtic illuminated letters, space, design, emphasis, line.

• Drawing elements and value in various methods of application i.e.: hatching and cross hatching.

• Pablo Picasso and cubism, multi-dimensional, unity, rhythm and movement.

Kindergarten   First Grade   Second Grade   Third Grade   Fourth Grade   Fifth Grade   Library   Music   Physical Ed.