Visual Arts - Transitional Kindergarten
Visual arts provide opportunities for creativity and expression, and help develop problem-solving and small motor skills. Art lessons include class discussions, literature, games, demonstrations, historical reference, and integration of the core curriculum, playful practice, and reflection.
ELEMENTS OF ART
- Color
- Shape
- Line
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
- Patterns
MEDIUMS
- Drawing
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Collage
- Ceramics
- Sculpture
- Textile arts
- Mixed media
SUBJECT MATTER
- Artists (contemporary and past)
- Styles
- Movements
- Architecture
- Art history
- Art vocabulary
SKILLS, STRATEGIES, BEHAVIORS
- Employ creative thinking
- Creates original art that expresses their personal ideas
- Discusses thoughts, experiences, and feelings expressed in works of art
- Understand that mixing colors creates new colors
- Recognize and name primary colors
- Explore and utilize a variety of materials
- Understand that there are many different kinds of art
- Be able to identify and create a variety of lines and shapes
- Construct
- Cut
- Glue
- Draw
- Sculpt
- Paint
- Weave
APPROACHES TO LEARNING
- Demonstrations
- Practice
- Experimentation
- Class discussions
- Literature
- Games
- Reflection (oral or written)
- Individual projects
- Group projects