FOURTH+GRADE

[|State Visual Arts Core for Fourth Grade]
 * Week of March 1st -**Fantasy castles


 * Week of Feburary 22nd-** Possibles bags


 * Week of February 15th-** Paint clay pots


 * Week of February 8th-** clay pots


 * Week of February 1st-** We will be learning about OP art and doing an op art project


 * Week of January 25th-** We will be doing fraction art


 * Week of January 19th**- We will be doing styrofoam prints of westward movement scenes


 * Week of January 4th-11th** We will be working on pastels of southern utah scenes.


 * Week of December 14th-** We will finish our tessellations as well as work on a Christmas project. Math connections can be made from the tessellation project.


 * Week of December 7th-** We will be learning about tessellations and creating our own tessellations.


 * Week of November 30th-** Observational drawing lesson- draw your shoe


 * Week of November 16th-** We will be making pioneer landscape drawings.


 * Week of November 9th**- We will be talking about the traveling sketchbook project as well as doing a little art appreciation activity.


 * Week of November 2nd-** Surrealism! We will be learning about the surrealist art movement and making our own exquisite corpses. [|http://phs.provo.edu/~jamesr/z-NOT%20USED!!!/ART1presenations/surrealism.pdf]


 * Week of October 19th- 26th-** We will be working on carved apple witch faces for halloween. The first week we will carve and the second week we will be painting and decorating our witch faces. []


 * Week of October 12th-** We will be discussing the water cycle and introducing graphic novels. We will be creating graphic novels about the water cycle and watching a ted talk on comics []
 * Week of September 28th-October 6th-** To connect with the curriculum, we will be discussing and creating native american sand paintings.
 * Week of September 21st**- In connection with the Rocks and Minerals unit, students will be learning about an artist who used these elements in his art, Andy Goldsworthy. We will be looking at his art and dividing into small groups to create our own nature art. We will be going outside.


 * Week of September 14th**- Blind contour drawings. Students will need a pencil. They will be drawing portraits. They will also need their art boards.


 * Week of September 7th-** We will be discussing rock art and creating a collaborative mural. Students will be using white paint and we will be painting outside. Each student should have a paint shirt ready when class begins.

__vocabulary:__ Pictograph Petroglyph Rock Art Symbol


 * Week of August 31st**- Students will finish working on their portfolios. They will add color with either markers or crayons. Please give the students time in class to finish if they do not finish during our art period. Thanks!

Week of August 24th- Art Procedures Line discussion and Geometric Art on Portfolio examples:

Week of August 31st- Contour Lines Gesture Lines- Gesture Drawings